“I hate to break it to you but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent.”

“I hate to break it to you but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent.” Season 1, Episode 8 "The Hobo Code"

"I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one." (Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Season 1, Episode 1)

"Your wife's name is Mona!"

To Roger, after slapping him as he lays on a gurney after his heart attack.
Season 1, Episode 10 "The Long Weekend"

"Just so you know, the people who talk that way think that monkeys can do this. They take all this monkey crap and just stick it in a briefcase completely unaware that their success depends on something more than their shoeshine. YOU are the product. You- FEELING something. That's what sells. Not them. Not sex. They can't do what we do, and they hate us for it."

Season 2. Episode 1 "For those who think young"

This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened. Season 2 Episode 5

To Lois regarding what her job is as his secretary –

“You don’t cover for me. You manage people's expectations.”
from 203 "The Benefactor"

Love it! So Don.

In response to Pete's brown-nosing:

"Let's take it a little slower. I don't want to wake up pregnant."

Season 1, Episode 1

Season 1, Episode 6, Babylon

Roy asks Don (after learning Don is in advertising/the big lie) how he sleeps at night...

Don replies, "On a bed of money."

That's in my top 5 best MM quotes over all 3 seasons (so far)

Season 1, Episode 11 "Indian Summer"

"Just think about it deeply, then forget it...then an idea will jump up in your face."

I am a graphic design student and it happens to me on a daily basis...well said Don Draper, well said.

Hamm,

I saw you on some politcal ad or something. I also saw that one of your writers or creaters of the show went political at one of those award shows.

Don't get drawn into that trap. The most successful actors keep their personal views private.

Remember, you becoming successful because play a character well. We do not look to you for your polical advice. Do not let the political wackos turn you into one of their tools.

"If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation."

Season 3, "Love Among the Ruins"

"It looks like Hiroshima out there." Roger Sterling. Season 3. Episode 6

"Joan Holloway: Do we like this in the hallway?
Lois Sadler: I think it looks good now, but I think it will become messy.
Joan: I agree."

S2:Ep1 "For Those Who Think Young"

I love the subtext in this exchange, as much as the exchange itself. And Lois was almost psychic about her presence as a secretary...

"PR people understand this, but they can never execute: if you don't like the conversation, change it." Season 3, episode 2

"No. Everybody else's tobacco is poisonous. Lucky Strikes'.... is toasted. "
(Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Season 1, episode 1)

Don: "The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons. You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one."

This is your little brother. He’s only a baby. We don’t know who he is yet or who he’s going to be. And that is a wonderful thing.

Season 3, Episode 6 -

"I can't decide if you have everything . . . or nothing."

Season 1, Episode 2 "Ladies Room"

"You came here because we do this better than you, and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are." - One of my favorites this season, there are too many to count though...

Change isn't good or bad. It just is. ~ Season 3 Episode 2 Love Among the Ruins

There will be fat years and there will be lean years, but it is going to rain. ~ Season 3 Episode 1 Out of Town

"I'm Peggy Olson and I want to smoke some marijuana."

"The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons. You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one."
Don Draper Episode 1: Season 1

"Stop talking"

and then a bit later:

"I told you to stop talking."

"I'M NOT GOING TO LET A WOMAN TALK TO ME LIKE THIS."

Season 1 Episode 1 (Smoke Gets In Your Eyes):

Don: "The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons. You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one."

"It wasn't a lie, it was ineptitude with insufficient cover."

Don Draper,
Season 1, Episode 3: "Marriage of Figaro"

As he is seducing the stewardess in the hotel hallway: "I've been married a long time. You get plenty of chances." (Episode 1, "Out of Town," Season 3)

Don Draper: People were buying cigarettes before Freud was born.
Season 1, Episode 1

"Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means 'the pain of an old wound.' It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone."

Season 1: Episode 13 - The Wheel

Advertising is based on one thing, happiness. And you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of the road that screams reassurance that whatever you are doing is okay. You are okay.
Don Draper, Season 1, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

“I'm saying, I had a report just like that, and it's not like there's some magic machine that makes identical copies of things.”

“I keep going to a lot of places, and keep ending up places I’ve already been.” Season 3 premiere.

Season 2, Episode 5, "The New Girl"

To Peggy after giving birth: "It will shock you how much it never happened."

Stone cold!

"The day you sign a client is the day you start losing them."

Season 1 - Episode 10 - "Long Weekend"

( I love this quote - it so Washington, DC ! LOL )

"Has anyone tried to save this yet, besides Leopold and Loeb over here?" Season 2, Episode 3, "The Benefactor."

The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons. You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one.
Season 1, Episode 1, "Smoke gets in your eyes."

“I'm saying, I had a report just like that, and it's not like there's some magic machine that makes identical copies of things.”

“Big lightning bolt to the heart—you can’t eat, and you can’t work and you run off and get married and make babies. The reason you haven’t felt it is because it doesn’t exist. It was invented by men like me, to sell nylons.” Season 1, Episode 1

"This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards... it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel. It let's us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved." - The Wheel, Season 1, Episode 13

"Limit your exposure."

Season 3, Episode 1.

"There has to be advertising for people who don't have a sense of humor" For Those Who Think Young" Season 2

"Sterling Cooper has more failed artists and intellectuals than the Third Reich"
Don Draper to Peter Campbell, Season 1 "New Amsterdam"

Let’s also say that change is neither good or bad. It simply is. It can be greeted with terror or joy. A tantrum that says, ‘I want it the way it was’ or a dance that says, ‘Look, it’s something new.

("Love Among the Ruins" -- Season 3, Episode 2)

"It's not called the wheel. It's called the carousel." (S1,E13)

"What do you want me to say?"

—Don Draper, S2:E10 (and also several other times throughout the series)

“Sterling Cooper has more failed artists and intellectuals than the Third Reich.” Season 1: New Amsterdam

Note to pinkrevision (Welcome, first of all -- if you're new) and also....love your DD quote! It's is his middle name, isn't it?....I've lost count of the times he's said it....it is his emergency phrase, always says it when he feels cornered or threatened!

"You wanna be on Vacation Pete? Cuse I can make that happen."
Season 2 Episode 11: The Jet Set

"You wanna be on vacation Pete? Because I can make that happen."
Season 2 Episode 11: The Jet Set

"You are the product. You feeling something. That's what sells."

Love this quote from Season 2, Episode 1. Shows that Don isn't such a cynic as he can sometimes be.

From Season 3, episode 3, "My Old Kentucky Home"

In response to Gene, who, missing $5, refuses Don's attempt to give him the five by saying "You people. You think that money is the answer to every problem"

Don: "No, just this particular problem."

you're an army man gene, drop your socks and ...grab something.

Season 1, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", "Advertising is based on happiness. We make the lie, we invent want."

"Leave some tools in your toolbox."
"On a Bed of Money."
"You haven't thought this through."
"Thought about what you said and what a deep lack of character you have."

Those are only a few...

"I don't have a contract." (Season 2 finale)

"Really?" - Don Draper, Season 3, Episode 1

To note, this was followed by:

"What a stud" - my wife

to Peggy: "it will shock you how much it never happened"

The new girl

"No one thinks you're happy. They think you're foolish." ("My Old Kentucky Home," Season 3, Episode 29)

Sorry, I don't remember what episodes the aforementioned quotes are from in my previous post. Can anyone help me? I just pulled from the top of my head.

Season 3, Epidsode 2
“I am going to let you go out there and tell your sister that this is what you want and we’ll pretend you did the right thing on your own.”

Peggy listen to me, get out of here and move forward. This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.

"It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved."

"The Wheel" Season 1, Episode 13

Not just the quote, (which emphasizes the advice he gave to Peggy about their job being to sell their personal feelings), but how well Hamm executed it. The anguish and longing on his face as he looks at slides of his family in happier times. The whole experience was moving.

"I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere where I’ve already been.” Season 3, Episode 1

"This is your little brother, he's only a baby. We don't know who he is yet, or who he's going to be. And that is a wonderful thing." -Don Draper

Utterly Brilliant Writing! Great show; it's my favorite!

Oops, I forgot to say Season 3, Episode 6... the last words uttered before the episode ends. I

"Limit your exposure" Season 3, episode 1. Those 3 words had so many different meanings, but both applied to Sal & Don. Great line.

Season 3, Episode 6: "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency"

Don Draper: This is your brother. We don't know who he is yet, or what he's gonna be…and that is a wonderful thing.

"If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation"

Season 3, Episode 303 "My Old Kentucky Home"

BEYOND BRILLIANT!

"some snakes go months without eating, and then when they finally do, they suffocate from eating too much. let's take this one opportunity at a time."

"Bill the kid!"

Season 3 Episode 4 The Arrangements
Comment after Don smashed the ant farm with the jai lai stick (pelota?)

"Make it like it never happened......"
Don Draper, Season 2, Episode 5, "The New Girl"

"I am so high...."
Peggy, Season 3, Episode...when they all get high in the office on Saturday.

Best show ever!

Season 1, Episode 10 "The Long Weekend"
Don Draper says to Roger Sterling after he slaps him following Sterlings heart attack:
"Mona! Your wife's name is Mona!"

Season 1, Episode 13 - The Wheel
"This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards... it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel. It let's us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved."

Don to Betty- "Mourning is just extended self-pity."
Season 1 Episode 6 (Babylon)

“Peggy, listen to me. Get out of here and move forward. This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened."

Season 2, Episode 5, "The New Girl."

"You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts, but I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow... because there isn't one." -Don Draper, to Rachel Menken; Season 1, Episode 1 (Smoke Gets In Your Eyes)

(That's also the line that made me fall in love for the first time with Don.)

Season 2, Episode 13...Meditations in an Emergency

"I was not respectful of you."
Don to Betty
Understatement of the year!

Season 3, episode 5,

"You came here because we do this better than you, and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are."

I sent this to my Creative Director and he loved it!

"It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel. It let's us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved." -The Wheel, 2007, Season 1

"The only thing keeping you from being happy is the belief that you are alone."

Season 2, The Mountain King, Episode 12

Season one, episode 10

"Mona, your wife's name is Mona"

Always has been my favorite, always will be!

Our worst fears lie in anticipation - Season 3 Episode 5 "The Fog"

Roger says, "You know my mother was right. It's a mistake to be conspicuously happy. Some people don't like it."

Season 3, Episode 3: "My Old Kentucky Home"

Don replies to Roger's quote about being conspicuously happy (see above).

Don says, "No one thinks you're happy. They think you're foolish."

Season 3, Episode 3: "My Old Kentucky Home"

Don replies, "No one thinks you're happy. They think you're foolish."

Season 3, Episode 3: "My Old Kentucky Home"

I have been watching my life. It’s right there. I keep scratching at it, trying to get into it. I can’t.
Episode 12, Season 2, "The Mountain King"

When Peggy enters Don's office under the pretense of having Don sign off on artwork, she fishes for a spot on the Hilton account.
Don's response is pretty harsh. He puts her in her place and ends the conversation with, "You're good, get better. Stop asking for things. Close the door."
Season 3, Episode 7, "Seven Twenty Three"

When Peggy enters Don's office under the pretense of having Don sign off on artwork, she fishes for a spot on the Hilton account.
Don's response is pretty harsh. He puts her in her place and ends the conversation with, "You're good, get better. Stop asking for things. Close the door."
Season 3, Episode 7, "Seven Twenty Three"

“Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe. Women have feelings about these women because men do. Because we want both, they want to be both. It’s about how they want to be seen by us, their husbands, they boyfriends, their friend’s husbands. Here’s the idea, very simply. The bra is called ‘the Harlequin’. In fit and form, it should be your very best. It comes in black. And white. Jackie. Marilyn. Same incredible fit, two different women. And the beauty of it is, it’s the same woman. Same model.”

Season 2, Episode 6

..Spoken like a man who has spent alot of time observing women.....

"Oh, a foothold. I'd give anything for a foothold."
--Don Draper
Flight 1
Season 2, Episode 2

Season 3, Episode 7
To Conrad Hilton: "Maybe I'm late because I was spending time with my family reading the Bible."

In the powder room of the upscale Lutece, Don corners Bobbie Barrett. After her feeble attempt to blackmail him, he grabs a handful of that gorgeous, red mane. He cranks her head, forcing her eyes to meet his. He runs his hand up her delicate, toned thigh. He thrusts a couple of fingers into her moist, quivering velvet. A gasp, a gulp, then a look of aroused terror fills her face. She closes her eyes as Don growls, "Believe me. I will ruin you. Do as I say."

Season 2, Episode 3: The Benefactor

"The Mountain King" Season 2, Episode 12

"I've been watching my life. I keep scratching at it, trying to get into it."

To Campbell, after coming back from California-
"The world continues without us; there's no reason to take it personally."

Meditations in an Emergency

"Limit your exposure." 301 - Out of Town

Season 2, Final Episode--

"I don't HAVE a contract."

Season 2

"Success comes from standing out, not fitting in".

I used this word for word on my boss who was wanting me to design a series of slavishly uniform signs. Served with a smile, it definitely helped.

Pot smoking hipster to Don regarding Don's occupation of "selling lies" to the people:
"How do you sleep at night?"
Don:
"On a bed made of money."

Roger on the British ad exec's lawnmower accident that shredded his foot and ended his career: roughly: "And he'd just gotten his foot in the door".

Don: What do you want me to say?

We don't hear Don say these words at work until Season 3. As an ad man, he always has the answers! People come to him for that perfect line, to approve the art, for just about everything. He's the verbal superman. However, he often says these words to Birdie, like when she accuses him of infidelity. But then...enter season 3...and he says this to Peggy for the first time after she asks for a raise and he tells her it can't happen. Birdie and Peggy know Don in different ways, but my guess is they're each about to see another side, based on these simple words from Don.

"I don't have a contract."
Don Draper
Season 2, Episode 13,-Meditations in an Emergency

When that Beatnik dude found out Don was in advertising, he asked, "How do you sleep at night?" And Don replied, "On a bed made of money."

Who else could get away with that, but Don?!? ;-)

Season 1, Episode 6: Babylon.

Pilot episode, when he gets home to Betty and tells her he's not hungry- at least for food. He had me then and there, and it is still one of my favorite scenes.

"Young people aren't new, better versions of us. They don't know anything; not even that they're young."

Season 2, Episode 1 "For Those Who Think Young" (I'm guessing)

"Ken, you'll realize in your private life that at a certain point seduction is over and force is actually being requested."

Season 1, Episode 8 "The Hobo Code"...Don to Ken Cosgrove after the successful Belle Jolie lipstick pitch....classic Don Draper!

Season 1, 5g, to Adam Whitman," I have a life and it only goes in one direction. Forward.
I had almost forgotten about the power of this scene and watched it again last night after having watched Meditations in an Emergency and wanting to relive the episode where Adam came to see Don.

Also another good one, heck there all good! To Roger in For Those Who think Young, S2 Episode 1, "What do you want me to do, Dangle a Pepsi out the window and try to hook a stroler?"

Season Two - Episode 4 Three Sundays

"My father beat the hell out of me. All it did was make me fantasize about the day I could murder him."

Season Three - Episode 09 Wee Small Hours

When Don first comes to Ms. Farrell's home and she opens the door.

"Someone might see you" (Ms. Farrell)
"Then let me in" - (Don)

Don spoke that line so sexy and cool!!!!

While Pete moans about the loss of an account:
"The day you win a new client is the day you start losing them."
Classic Don Draper pragmatism!