Share Your Favorite Lane Pryce Quotes
As Sterling Cooper's CFO, Lane Pryce is nothing if not precise whether the topic is dollars or diction. This self-professed "stranger in a strange land" has chastised the staff for overspending, and placated his unhappy wife on more than one occasion. Funny how it all sounds better with a British accent. Have a favorite line from the penny-pinching Englishman? Tell us.
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"I've been here 10 months and no one's ever asked me where I went to school."
Mad Men Season 3, Episode 10, "The Color Blue."
"Shall I hear the ballad of your discontent?"
S3 - "The Color Blue"
"Pencils, pens, pads, paper and postage"
"Pennies make pounds and pounds make profits"
Season 3 "The Fog"
"I feel like I just went to my own funeral. I didn’t like the eulogy."
-3x06, 'Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency'
Correction to my last. I think it goes:
"Spare me the ballad of your discontent." S3 - "The Color Blue"
Season 3, Episode 10, "The Color Blue":
"....people will think you are ill..."
~~ trying to persuade Bert to attend the Sterling Cooper 40th Anniversary party (...if he doesn't attend...everyone will assume he is too ill to go!)
It worked! "How did you know I was vain?" Bert replied.
Loved that scene....crafty ol' Lane!
The Color Blue
Season 3, Episode 10
"Churchill rousing or Hitler rousing?"
In Season 3, Ep. 10 'The Color Blue,' I love how smoothly and dismissively he agrees with his wife when she calls Moneypenny a toad: "He is, he is."
"Very good! Happy Christmas!" (S3 E13)
Bertram Cooper: Who told you I was vain?
Lane Pryce: Please, it’s obvious.
Episode 3.10: The Color Blue
So delightful.
'Happy Christmas' to Nigel on phone after being fired! Season 3 Episode 13
Happy Christmas! talking to Nigel on the phone after being fired.
Season 3, Episode 13 'Shut the Door' Have a Seat'
"Am I to entertain your ballad of dissatisfaction, or has something actually happened?"
Season 3, Episode 10
"Churchill rousing? Or Hitler rousing?"
Season 3 Episode 10: The Color Blue
"Well, is the flogging over?"
Season 3 Episode 5: The Fog
Very good! Happy Christmas!"
(Season 3, Episode 13 "Shut the door. Have a seat."
"Nothing good ever came from seeking revenge..."
Then, of course, came the revenge. The Americanization of Lane Price.
upon being fired by Sinjin:
"Very good. Happy Christmas!"
upon being fired by Sinjin:
"Very good, Happy Christmas!"
season 3, Ep. 13 'Shut the Door, Have a Seat"
"I feel like I just went to my own funeral. I didn't like the eulogy."
Season 3 "Guy Walks Into Advertising Agency"
"Well gentleman......I suppose your are all fired."
Season 3- Ep 13-Shut the Door, Have A Seat"