Diane Lockhart quotes from The Good Wife

Will

I don't understand marriage.

Diane

It's a mysterious institution.

Will

You never wanted it?

Diane

Is that a proposal?

Will

[ironically] Yes. I've been watching you from afar. [she chuckles]

Will

Nice work on Broussard today.

Diane

Thanks.

Will

Look, I know we're going through a lot of turmoil here over the direction of the firm, with Stern gone and all, but wherever we end up... I respect you, Diane.

Diane

Didn't they say that to Secretariat before they put him down?

Will

I don't think they said "Diane".

Alicia

I'm better than Cary. On the Broussard homicide. On the eyewitness cross. I've been working on this for three months, intensely, and Cary is just coming on.

Diane

I agree.

Alicia

You... Well, then, why? Why... why was I pulled off it?

Diane

I don't know. It wasn't my idea.

Alicia

Whose?

Diane

Will's.

Will

We represent murderers. We get them off.

Diane

No. We keep the courts honest.

Will

And why shouldn't the courts be kept honest about Bishop? Everybody deserves representation. Does that stop suddenly when it comes to--

Diane

A criminal organization whose sole purpose is to sell drugs and to murder to control territory?

Will

Sure. Put it any way you want, it's still a true statement.

Diane

We're doing this for the money.

Will

Of course we are. We're not a charity! We do this or we lay off half of Acquisitions. That's ten lawyers and ten families.

Diane

Not to mention your season tickets.

Diane

Didn't we agree to not take this?

Will

No, we agreed to cut the flowers and the paper cups. The least I can do is take the cases I want.

Diane

You sure this isn't pride?

Will

Of course, it's pride. What's wrong with pride? Pride built the pyramids.

Diane

And Watergate.

Will

[about having a third partner] You're okay with giving up a third?

Diane

Of what, a sinking ship? Sure. We'll kill each other if we don't find a referee.

Will

A third partner? Someone neutral, someone we both agree on? [she nods and they clink glasses] An optimism fills the void.

Diane

I think that's alcohol.

Will

Just as good.

Will

[about Diane sleeping with McVeigh] Did it even occur to you to tell me?

Diane

Not, it didn't. I was under the mistaken impression that it was my life.

Will

It's your life when it doesn't impact our clients.

Diane

It didn't impact our clients.

Will

Diane, the jury ate it up. It was sex. It wasn't GSR or ballistics; it was sex.

Diane

I'm going home.

Will

If you had just told me. If you had just given me a sign!

Diane

Come on! Don't be a hypocrite.

Will

A hypocrite? How am I a hypocrite?

Diane

Alicia.

Will

[he pauses] That's supposed to what, make me quake, make me humble?

Diane

Make you honest.

Will

There's nothing going on with Alicia.

Diane

That's not true.

Will

It is true.

Diane

Will... I have two eyes.

Will

Then use them. Watch me. Watch us. There's nothing going on with Alicia. [she chuckles]

Diane

This isn't about Mrs. Sanborn, Jonas. This is about us.

Of course it's about us. I'm going to destroy your firm. And Mrs. Sanborn understands that, don't you dear?

I do.

Alicia

I don't know what to do. I've worked hard. You say that's not enough, so I'll work harder. You tell me Cary can work harder still. So what do you want? Tell me what you want, because I can't lose this job.

Diane

You're not Cary. You can never be Cary. But you don't have to be.

Alicia

I don't understand.

Diane

Your name, your connections... You've been reluctant to... use them.

Alicia

You want me to use my connections?

Diane

I want you to want the job.

Will

Are we being played in some way?

Diane

I don't see how.

Will

I don't either. It's making me suspicious.

Diane

What do you know about Derrick Bond?

Kalinda

What do I know? Well, I did the due diligence. Everything I found, you have.

Diane

What about Derrick Bond and Will?

Kalinda

Sorry?

Diane

As far as I knew, there was no connection between them. I was the connection to Derrick.

Kalinda

You're suggesting there's a link that you don't know about.

Diane

I'm suggesting I'd like to be disabused of that notion.

Kalinda

Then, I'll get to disabusing.

Diane

Where is Blake?

Kalinda

Uh, I heard he's out sick.

Diane

Okay, you sit with them. Help them prepare questioning, because what I give a damn about is...is...What I give a damn about...uh...It's just...it's not...it's not just, uh it's just one minute.

Diane

Well, I think that worked. I mean, it was painful, but it worked...What's wrong?

Diane

Go away!

Will

But she hasn't lost perspective?

Alicia

No. She's fighting harder.

Will

Unfortunately. I need her to fight harder at work, too.

Diane

We're the perfect couple.

Will

Yeah, everything but the sex.