Quotes from Agent Carter

Nobody is above protocol. Not even Captain America's old flame.

Miss Carter, you have no idea how foreign Los Angeles will seem to a civilized person such as yourself. They eat avocados... with everything!

Edwin Jarvis: "In polite society, one telephones ahead before trespassing."
Peggy Carter: "I imagine strange women traipsing through the property isn't a completely unusual occurrence."
Edwin Jarvis: "That's a fair point."

Edwin Jarvis: "Stark can be thoughtless. Inconsiderate. Vain. Childish. Unreliable. Arrogant."
Peggy Carter: "You flatter him."

I grew up on the lower east side. My father sold fruit. My mother sewed shirtwaists for a factory. Let me tell you, you don't get to climb the American ladder without picking up some bad habits on the way. There's a ceiling for certain types of people based on how much money your parents have, your social class, your religion, your sex. And the only way to break through that ceiling sometimes is to lie, so that's my natural instinct to lie.

I got a bottle of Schnapps and half a rhubarb pie. Let's see which one makes us sick first.

Jack Thompson: "If you don't mind, these surveillance reports need to be filed, and you're really so much better at that kind of thing."
Peggy Carter: "What kind of thing is that, Agent Thompson? The alphabet? I can teach you. Let's start with words beginning with 'A'."

Peggy Carter: "You can't be serious."
Howard Stark: "I try not to be, but sometimes it just slips out anyway."

Edwin Jarvis: "Mr. Stark believed the intruder had some advanced technological assistance."
Peggy Carter: "Mr. Stark believes brushing your teeth requires advanced technological assistance."

Technically, we don't even know if it works. But, let's face it. I invented it. So, it works.

There is not a man or woman, no matter how fit he or she may be, who is capable of carrying the entire world on their shoulders.

An ideal butler provides service without being asked.