Quotes from Sex And The City

Did I ever really love Big or was I addicted to the pain? The exquisite pain of wanting someone so unattainable.

If he never calls me again, I'll always think of him fondly... as an a-shole!

She was a smart girl, until she fell in love.

The only way to get over somebody is to feel really bad, cry to your girlfriends - and to replay what you hated about him over and over in your head all day.

Ever thine. Ever Mine. Ever Ours.

I like my money where I can see it - hanging in my closet!

I decided to stop avoiding the situation and take the grown-up approach... complete and utter denial!

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx; why are there so many great unmarried women - and no great unmarried men?

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they need to run free, until they find someone just as wild to run with.

Don't forget to fall in love with yourself first.

Men in their 40s are like the 'New York Times' Sunday crossword puzzle: tricky, complicated and you're never really sure you've got the right answer.

I pity him, because I get to walk away and be me and he has to walk away and stay him... who wants to be him when you can be me?

Samantha: "I never Ieave underwear, because I never see it again."
Charlotte: "What happens to it?"
Samantha: "Nothing, I never go back."
Carrie: "Isn't it a Iittle expensive disposing of lingerie every time you sleep with a guy?"
Samantha: "That's why I stopped wearing underwear on dates."
Miranda: "That's why I'm never borrowing a dress from you again."
Charlotte: "I once found another woman's underwear in a man's bed."
Carrie: "Maybe it was Samantha's!"

Miranda: "If 85% aren't circumcised, that means I've only slept with 15% of the population, tops."
Carrie: "You're practically a virgin."

When you live on a tiny island like Manhattan, the odds of bumping into the one who broke your heart are incredibly high. The odds of bumping into him when you look like shit are even higher.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie: "Something Iike 85% aren't circumcised."
Charlotte: "Great, now they're taking over the world!"
Carrie: "It's a penis, not Godzilla."

In a town where everyone's dying to couple up, sometimes there's nothing better than being out of a relationship. You have time to do your laundry, freedom to play your favorite bad music really loudly... but the best part of being out of a relationship: Plenty of time to catch up with your friends.

Samantha: "If I had a son, I'd teach him all about the vagina."
Carrie: "If you had a son, we'd call social services."

Orgasms don't send you Valentine's cards and don't hold your hand in a sad movie.

Sex is not a time to chat. It's one of the few instances in my overly articulated, exceedingly verbal life, where it is perfectly appropriate, if not preferable, to shut up.

Men may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

Tell a man: "I hate you" - you'II have the best sex of your Iife. But tell him: "I Iove you" - you'II probably never see him again.

Samantha: "If we perpetually gave men blow jobs, we could run the world."
Carrie: "At Ieast our hands would be free to greet dignitaries and stuff."

Stanford: "This is Manhattan, even the shrinks have shrinks."
Carrie: "The fact was, Stanford was right. The therapist was as ubiquitous in Manhattan as pirated cable."
Stanford: "I have three. One when I want to be cuddled, one when I want tough Iove and one for when I just want to Iook at a really beautiful man."
Carrie: "That's sick."
Stanford: "Which is why I see the other two."

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

Samantha: "She fucks on my couch, she buys it!"
Carrie: "Isn't that how you got the couch from me?"

The witch in 'Hänsel and Gretel'... she's very misunderstood. I mean, the woman builds her dream house and these brats come along and start eating it!

Is your vagina listed in the New York City guide books? Because it should be - hottest spot in town. Always open.

Samantha: "You forgot someone you slept with?"
Carrie: "We're not in single-digits anymore."

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

I was once with a guy the size of one of those little miniature golf pencils. Couldn't tell if he was trying to fuck me or erase me.

Sweetie, I just spent $395 on a pair of open-toed Gucci's last week. This is not the place to be frugal.

Carrie: "You bought a pregnant woman a bottle of Scotch?"
Samantha: "The invitation said 'BYOB'."
Miranda: "That meant 'bring your own baby'!"
Carrie: "What did you get her?"
Miranda: "Condoms."

Samantha: "I think it's sad the way she's using a child to validate her existence."
Carrie: "Exactly. Why can't she just use sex and a nice cocktail like the rest of us?"

Samantha: "Threesomes are huge right now, they're the blow job of the '90s."
Charlotte: "What was the blow job of the '80s?"
Samantha: "Anal sex."

Carrie: "She isn't a hooker, she's like an international party girl."
Miranda: "She's a hooker with a passport."

Oh, honey, I'd love some fresh pepper. In fact, I think everyone at this table could use a lot of fresh pepper!

Brokers give investment advice. Architects - design advice. Single people give married friends tidbits from their sexual escapades.

I'm not even sure bisexuality exists. I think it's just a layover on the way to gaytown.

Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

Samantha: "I don't get laid, unless the Knicks win. Can I just say? They and I have been on a very long losing streak."
Carrie: "That's awful."
Samantha: "No kidding. The Knicks are the only ones getting screwed!"

Carrie: "It's the Millennium, we don't say 'working class' anymore."
Charlotte: "You're trying to pretend we live in a classless society - and we don't."
Carrie: "Marie Antoinette, we get the picture."

If a man is over 30 and single, there's something wrong with him. It's Darwinian, they're being weeded out from propagating the species.

Charlotte: "If I could get him to show at the gallery, it would be an incredible coup. But what if he wants me to... you know..."
Carrie: "...hold his brush?"

People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates, hoping to hit the jackpot. But, mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar. If we know the house always wins, why gamble?