Submit Your Favorite Quotes for Paul, Ken and Harry
Copywriter Paul Kinsey sings a capella and wears mohair sweaters; co-Head of Accounts Kenny Cosgrove is a confirmed bachelor and published author; Harry Crane runs the TV Department, and according to his mother-in-law, looks like Perry Mason. They're nothing alike, but these three ad men have all been known to toss off a good zinger or two. Have a favorite quote by one or each of these characters? Submit it below.
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"Title? I'm Ken. Cosgrove...Accounts."
-Ken Cosgrove. Season 2, Episode 5, "The New Girl."
Kenny: "Did you know that lipstick was invented to simulate the flush of a woman's face when a man treated her right?" Season One, Episode Six, Babylon.
Paul Kinsey: What?! Who the hell are you people?!
Season 3, Episode 6, "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency"
Paul Kinsey: I don't think it's crazy to be attached to a Beaux-Arts masterpiece through which Teddy Roosevelt came and went."
"Do you know where the greatest Roman ruins are? They're in Greece, Spain - because the Romans tore theirs all down. They took apart the Coliseum to build their outhouses!"
Season 3, Episode 2, "Love Among the Ruins"
Ken Cosgrove, season one, "shoot"
"They call a girl like her a lobster.
All the meat's in the tail."
Not exactly my favorite but certainly a zinger since it got Kenny clocked by Pete Campbell.
Ken Cosgrove, S3, Souvenir:
"Cooper's in Montana,
Sterling's in Jane
and Draper's on vacation."
Okay, the last line was wrong, Don was in Dallas... or Denver.
Ken Cosgrove, S1, Nixon vs. Kennedy:
"They're blue!"
After he chased down Alison in a mock panty-raid and then escorted her "off-stage."
Harry Crane: Draper? Who knows anything about that guy? No one’s ever lifted that rock. He could be Batman for all we know.
Season 1, Episode 3: Marriage of Figaro
Paul (to Joan): The meaner you are, the more I like you.
Season 1, Episode 12: Nixon vs. Kennedy
Ken Cosgrove: Honey, it’s God’s gift to bachelors: The juiciest gazelle is the easiest to catch.
Season 1, Episode 13: The Wheel
I love everything about this line. I love that he speaks frankly, like a friend, with Peggy. I love the perceptiveness about women, and yet, still piggy.
"Draper? Who knows anything about that guy? No one’s ever lifted that rock. He could be Batman for all we know."—Harry Crane, Marriage of Figaro (Season 1)
"You need to let them know what kind of man you are, so they know what kind of woman to be." - Ken Cosgrove - Season 1, Episode 1 "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes."
“Pegs, a woman who looks like that will never sound confident, because she never is confident” – Ken Cosgrove, The Wheel (Season 1)
"Bras are for men. Women want to see themselves the way men see the." -Harry Crane, Maidenform (
Season 2)
"You missed something, my yellow-bellied friend. Jane Siegel is a genuine thrill. Breaking and entering" - Ken Cosgrove (to Paul Kinsey): The Gold Violin (Season 2)
"I don’t know. Makes a lot of sense. She’s an undercover nun"- Ken Cosgrove (on seeing Peggy walk through the office w/Father Gill, A Night to Remember (Season 2)
Last one I swear: "What’s wrong with you? Are you loyal to anyone?"- Paul Kinsey (to Harry Crane when discussing possible Sterling Cooper take over) Meditations in an Emergency (Season 2)
"Do you like Ukrainian food?"
-Paul Kinsey, Season 1, Episode 10. Best pickup line ever.
"I heard he disintegrated in London...got involved with a woman he met at the British Museum."
"Her name was Rosetta. Rosetta Stone."
I can't remember which episode this is, but it's Harry and Kinsey talking about Duck.
I also love Kinsey's little jingle about Nixon--"Ethel, go get the ice pick, that Nixon guy is on TV again!"--and when he gets high, lies on the floor and recites Eliot. "This is the way the world ends..."
"Holy Crap!" - Harry Crane
- Season 3, Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency
Loved Paul reciting, "This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends...."
Season 3 - Episode 3 - My Old Kentucky Home.
"...Wait, so Nixon's selling laxatives?"
-Harry Crane, to Pete Campbell, on Secor Laxatives, Season 1, Episode 9 (Shoot)
Ken Cosgrove: "Let me tell ya. Don Draper has a rope coiled under his desk and it's looped around Duck's neck. And Duck's going to run around and run around, and one day..." (stomps foot)
Season 2, Episode 1, "For Those Who Think Young"
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Ken Cosgrove: "So, Peggs, you part of our nation's military industrial boyfriend-girlfriend complex?"
Season 1, Episode 2, "Ladies' Room"
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Paul Kinsey: "The Naked and the Dead."
Season 1, Episode 7, "Red in the Face"
Ken Cosgrove, "Gotta let em know what kind of guy you are, then they'll know what kind of girl to be"'
Season 1, Episode 1: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.
I'm Peggy Olson and I wanna smoke some marijuana - Peggy
Ken: "Kurt's a homo"
Season 2 episode 11
Paul: "That's mohair"
Season 3 episode 3
Harry: I'm the head of Television"
Season 2 episode 12
Ken Cosgrove: "New York in August? It's like a great big hairy armpit museum."
Season 3, Episode 8: "Souvenir"
THE COLOR BLUE: Season 3, Ep. 10
PAUL: "It's like there was nothing....and there there was "IT"...and now it's nothing again."
I am feverish about the next three episodes...it can only mean total disaster for Don and it starts within the office. He is like Ceasar, arriving at his pinacle after subjecting Pompei and his legions. He is at the zenith of his professional success....but already the Senate has been stashing knives to destroy him.
Burt Cooper and Roger Sterling are openly seathing with dislike for Don. He is signed onto a three year contract and it's likely that the "covenant not to conpete" was included in the agreement. Meanwhile Betty has everything she needs to destroy him, the same evidence which makes Don a marked man at Sterling Cooper has the potential of leaving him a fallen hero even in his own home.
As for the new mistress....she is a powder keg, related to an obviously mentally unstable brother...one Don really shouldn't have gotten to know. The writing is on the wall....Draper is on the way to a big fall! Dang it!!!!
Paul Kinzie at the strip club:
"Can we live here?"
"My great-great-grandfather Cyrus Dyckman would have turned his boat around if he had known that the city would one day be filled with cry babies." --Pete Campbell, Long Among the Ruins (Season 3)
"Hell's bells, Trudy!" — Pete Campbell, The Mountain King (Season 2)
As much as I'd like to think that we've come a long way since 1963, there is the occasional line that shockingly shows that some things were better then.
Ken in Season 3 Episode 6 (after Guy's foot is mowed over): "I take full responsibility."
You have your own office? You. I'm the head of television and I spend the day staring at an orangutan.
Harry Crane, Season 2, Episode 12: The Mountain King
"Bad news. The conference room is signed out all day. And I checked the fridge...there's canapes. Really good ones."
Harry Crane, Season 2, Episode 13: Meditations in an Emergency
Draper? Who knows anything about that guy, no one's ever lifted that rock. He could be Batman for all we know.
Harry Crane, Season 1, Episode 3: Marriage of Figaro