On Christmas Day last year, seasons one through five of The Wire came to live in our house on DVD. Well, four months later – to the day - we have
just finally finished watching the last episode. I can’t say anything about this amazing TV series that hasn’t already been said. It is, quite simply, STUNNING.
Thought I’d gather and share my favourite quotes from The Wire, presented here in no particular order. Warning: There are naughty words amongst it all. 
DJ’s Fave 25 Quotes from The Wire
Bunk: Better to be lucky than to be good.
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Clay: Politics is a good thing, partner. Carcetti: That’s a minority opinion.
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Proposition Joe: I’m doing like one of them marriage counselors. Charge by the hour to tell some fool he need to bring some flowers home. Then charge another hour telling the bitch she oughta suck some cock every little once in a while. You know, keep a marriage strong like that.
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Sobotka: What do you say, Johnny? What do you say to any question?
Johnny Fifty: I take the Fifth Commandment.
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The Greek: The young man makes a point. You’re right. These are volatile times. It is not unreasonable to carry insurance. Who can say what tomorrow will show us?
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McNulty: Lester, are we still cops?
Freamon: Technically, I suppose so.
McNulty: Ok, I was just checking.
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Norman: A wise man does not burn his bridges until he first knows he can part the waters.
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The Deacon: A good church man is always up in everybody’s shit. It’s how we do.
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Marlo: That’s my money.
Omar: Man, money ain’t got no owners. Only spenders.
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Sergei: Family cannot be helped.
Proposition Joe: Who you tellin’? I got motherfuckin’ nephews and in-laws fucking all my shit up all the time and it ain’t like I can pop a cap in their ass and not hear about it Thanksgivin’ time. For real, I’m livin’ life with some burdensome niggers.
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Rawls: Bad news gentlemen, as we’re actually gonna have to catch this motherfucker. Good news is that our Mayor finally needs a police department more than he needs a school system.
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Carver: Girl, you can’t even think of calling this shit a war.
Herc: Why not?
Carver: Wars end
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Terry Hanning: A lie ain’t a side of a story. It’s just a lie.
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Dukie: There ain’t no special dead. There’s just dead.
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Marla Daniels: You cannot lose if you do not play.
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Slim Charles: Don’t matter who did what to who at this point. Fact is, we went to war and there ain’t no turnin’ back. I mean, shit, it’s what war is, you know? Once you in it, you in it. If it’s a lie, then we fight on that lie. But we gotta fight.
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Bunk: Them Greeks sure have some weird-ass names.
McNulty: Hey, don’t knock the Greeks. They invented civilization.
Bunk: Yeah, and ass-fucking, too.
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Dealer: [while being thrown in the police truck] Hey, we in America!
Officer Santangelo: Nuh-uh, West Baltimore.
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Editor: Just because it happened doesn’t mean it’s news
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Gus: He feared and hated me, and I merely wanted him dead.
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Lester: From the looks of things, Stringer Bell’s worse than a drug dealer.
Prez: He’s a developer.
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Rhonda: You all cannot spell for shit.
Bunk: Well, would we be police if we could?
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Colvin: Middle management means that you got just enough responsibility to listen when people talk, but not so much you can’t tell anybody to go fuck themselves.
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Stringer: You see these east-side motherfucker’s over here? I want’chu to extend to these motherfucker’s all the hospitality west Baltimore is famous for.
Bodie: Yeah, you want us to fuck ‘em up.
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Burrell: If the Gods are fucking you, you find a way to fuck them back. It’s Baltimore, gentlemen; the Gods will not save you.
