Submit Your Favorite Betty Draper Quotes
Betty, Betts or Birdie... Whatever you call her, she'll always be our favorite Ossining blonde. And don't underestimate this Grace Kelly beauty either as Mrs. Draper has delivered more than a few choice lines to go along with that classic look. Have a favorite Betty quote? Let us know before you head out to play in traffic.
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“… she’s taken to your tools like a little lesbian.” Classic...
Sorry... Season 2, Episode 1, i think.
Season 2, Episode 3 - The Benefactor
Arthur Case: "You're so profoundly sad."
Betty: "No, it's just that my people are Nordic."
"LUNCH!" Season 3, Episode 7
"Somewhere there’s a pregnant girl floating in a lake."
Season 2, Episode 3 "The Benefactor"
"I know people say life goes on, and it does, and no one tells you that’s not a good thing. Why is that? "
(Long Weekend Season 1 episode 10)
"Go watch TV."
An instant classic and why she deserves mom of the year....
Sarah: "Don’t you hate getting manure in that?"
Betty: "Little children. What’s the difference?"
season 2 episode 1
"Go Bang Your head against the wall"
"Only boring people are boring"
Season 3 Episode 6
" I'm waiting..."
Season 2 Episode 12
"As far as I’m concerned, as long as men look at me that way, I’m earning my keep. " ~ Red in the Face
Season 1 Episode 7
Betty to Don: "..are you going to bounce me against the walls now?"
Sorry. Red in the Face is s1, epi 7.
Season 1, Episode 2 "Ladies Room"
"If the clothes from that dry cleaning bag are on the floor of my closet, you're going to be a very sorry young lady".
At 9:45 minutes from the Itunes version of The Arrangements episode In Response to her father when he tells her: " That's my fault for shielding you from all the danger out there, That's probably why you married this joker, If you'd only knew what was possible!" My favorite Betty Quote is in response to this, she tells him:
(BETTY QUOTE:)
"I'm your little girl, and I know it must be horrible to be looking at whatever you're looking at, but can't you just keep it to yourself"
I cried when she said this, I wish I had the courage to tell this to my dad when he yells at me.
(This is maybe not written perfectly, I wrote this listening to the episode right now, I purchase the Mad Men episodes via Itunes)
At 9:45 minutes from the Itunes version of The Arrangements episode in SEASON 3, In Response to her father when he tells her: " That's my fault for shielding you from all the danger out there, That's probably why you married this joker, If you'd only knew what was possible!" My favorite Betty Quote is in response to this, she tells him:
(BETTY QUOTE:)
"I'm your little girl, and I know it must be horrible to be looking at whatever you're looking at, but can't you just keep it to yourself"
I cried when she said this, I wish I had the courage to tell this to my dad when he yells at me.
(This is maybe not written perfectly, I wrote this listening to the episode right now, I purchase the Mad Men episodes via Itunes)
"I left my lunchbox on the bus and I'm having a baby."
Absolutely priceless!
Betty: I keep thinking, not that I could’ve killed the kids, but worse. Sally could have survived and gone on living with this horrible scar on her face, and some long lonely miserable life."
Not only a peek into her own vanity, but also her understanding that beauty is a commodity for women in her time.
Season 3, Episode 6 Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency: "Go bang your head against the wall. Only boring people are bored."
"She wanted me to be beautiful so I could find a man. There’s nothing wrong with that. But then what? Just sit and smoke and let it go ‘til you’re in a box?"
Season 1, Episode 9: Shoot
"Go watch TV." - to her kids, in every episode.
"She wanted me to be beautiful so I could find a man. There’s nothing wrong with that. But then what? Just sit and smoke and let it go ‘til you’re in a box?"
Season 1, Episode 9: Shoot
Only boring people are bored
Season 3 episode 6
"Stop counting other people's money!"
-"The Inheritance" Season 2, Episode 10
"You people are ugly and crude." ("What people? You mean comedians?") - season 2, episode 7 - The Gold Violin.
Even though Jimmy Barrett was pushing Betty over the edge purposefully to get to Don, I still hated Betty more for resorting to anti-Semitism there. Betty is a wretch, and I hope there are plans for her to develop and grow as a human being. She has no redeeming qualities whatsoever at this point other than being pretty.
What's a matter Don? Don't know where you will be in three years?
Season 3, 6
"...I know what kind of a man you are.."
Season 2, Episode 8, "A Night to Remember"
...after accusing Don of an affair with Bobbie Barrett (and his denial of it)
Of course it's: "She's taken to your tools like a little lesbian."
Season 3, Episode 1
"we all have skills we don't use."
Betty: "Honestly, I think she's jealous of me. I've seen it before, I was in a sorority."
Season 1: Episode 4, New Amsterdam
Season 3, Episode 6. Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency: "Go bang your head against the wall." Best mother EVER.
Betty: "A woman can't help but comment on her husband's secretary. She's fresh."
Season 1, Episode 13 "The Wheel"
To psychiatrist - "Still, I can't help but think that I'd be happy if my husband was faithful to me." "The way he makes love -- sometimes its what I want and sometimes, its obivously what someone else wants."
Not exactly a quote but a memorable visual...of Betty shaking off all the litter from the picnic blanket during the episode when Don buys the Caddie .
the lesbian tool thing had been taken too many times...
"No, It's just my people are Nordic."
-Betty, responding to Arthur Case calling her "profoundly sad" at the stables, Season 2, Episode 3 (The Benefactor)
Season 2, Episode 8, disheveled Betty (on the bed, still in last night's party dress), to Don:
"I would never do this to you. How could you do this to me?"
Season 2, Episode 8, scrubbed Betty talking to Don, after earlier accusing him of an affair (with Bobbie):
"Now you look me in the eye. You never do that."
And also, same scene:
"Do you hate me?"
"Actually, it hasn't been all that different without you." - When Don turns up at the stables in Meditations on an Emergency.
Betty: Please, please tell me I’ll be okay.
Glen: I don’t know. I wish I was older.
Betty: Oh, adults don’t know anything, Glen.
-Season One, Episode Thirteen: The Wheel
"You think you’d be the man you are today if your father didn’t hit you?"
-Season Two, Episode Four: Three Sundays
"Freeze"
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Seven Twenty Three
"My mother always said, 'You're painting a masterpiece, make sure to hide the brush strokes.' "
Season 1, Episode 7: Red in the Face
Speaking to Don about life at home w/ the kids...
"I'm here all day alone with them. Out-numbered!"
And that was when she only had 2 of them, haha
~ Season 2, episode 4: Basket of Kisses
Season 1, episode 2-Ladies room
"Sally Draper, come over here this minute. If the clothes from that dry cleaning bag are on the floor of my closet, you're going to be a very sorry young lady."
"Do you remember what happened to the little girl in 'Gone With the Wind'?"
Season 2, Episode 1 "For Those Who Think Young"
"You don't kiss boys, boys kiss you."
Season 3 Episode 8
"I hate this place. I hate our friends. I hate this town."
Season 3, Episode 8
"Must be nice. Needing time and just taking it."
Season 2, Episode 13 "Meditations in an Emergency"
This one immediately came to mind:
"I'm just a housewife, why are you doing this to me?"
Season 3, Episode 5 "The Fog"
Season 1, episode 2-Ladies room
"Sally Draper, come over here this minute. If the clothes from that dry cleaning bag are on the floor of my closet, you're going to be a very sorry young lady."
"Make sure your brother hasn't climbed out of the play yard!" episode 102 Ladies Room
Also, "I'm married." Episode 213 Meditations in an Emergency
"I was an anthropology major. Imagine that." Season 3, Episode 7: "Seven Twenty Three"
'Stop counting other people's money.' Season 2, Episode 10
(episode 2.12)
Sally: "You're mean!" (as Betty locks her in the closet)
Betty: "You betcha!"
Gotta love it.