1. Home
    2.  › 
  2. TV Quotes
    3.  › 
  3. The Good Wife

The Good Wife Quotes

“Diane: You sure this isn't pride?

Will: Of course, it's pride. What's wrong with pride? Pride built the pyramids.

Diane: And Watergate.”
— Diane Lockhart, The Good Wife, Season 1: Fleas
Tagged: Pride, built, Pyramids, Watergate, scandal
“To protect my family, you have no idea what I'm capable of.”
— Peter Florrick, The Good Wife, Season 1: Unprepared
Tagged: Protect, Capable, Family
“Alicia: I wanted his problems out of the office. What does that say about me?

Kalinda: It says you're becoming a lawyer.”
— Kalinda Sharma, The Good Wife, Season 1: Painkiller
Tagged: Problems, Law, Lawyer
“We follow the law, Alicia. Sometimes it's wrong, sometimes it's right. But we always follow the law.”
— Diane Lockhart, The Good Wife, Season 1: Fixed
Tagged: Law, Wrong, Right, follow the law
“Politics is just a game of Chutes and Ladders. Right now, I'm at square one.”
— Peter Florrick, The Good Wife, Season 1: Conjugal
Tagged: Politics, Game, Metaphor Examples, Chutes and Ladders, square one
“You won't feel like it. But put on nice clothing. Force yourself, too. Not for public. For you.”
— Alicia Florrick, The Good Wife, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Feel, nice clothing, public, For You
“Attorneys always make the worst witnesses.”
— Alicia Florrick, The Good Wife, Season 6: Red Zone
Tagged: attorneys, worst, Witness
“Things can be simple. You just have to want them to be.”
— Finn Polmar, The Good Wife, Season 6: Sticky Content
Tagged: Simple, Want, Things
“Court is a lesson in humility.”
— Will Gardner, The Good Wife, Season 1: Mock
Tagged: Court, Lesson, Humility, Law
“I want what I’m worth.”
— Diane Lockhart, The Good Wife, Season 5: A Precious Commodity
Tagged: Want, Worth, Pride, Value
“The truth isn’t this happened or that happened. The truth to me is about doing good. And the only way to put yourself in a position to do good is by getting elected. That’s the greater truth.”
— Johnny Elfman, The Good Wife, Season 6: Oppo Research
Tagged: Truth, happened, Good, elected
“In Chicago, you need your friends three times: at your wedding, your wake, and your first indictment.”
— Will Gardner, The Good Wife, Season 2: On Tap
Tagged: Friends, Chicago, wedding, wake, indictment
“When you pick up a gun, you shoot to kill. Or you don’t pick up a gun at all.”
— Kalinda Sharma, The Good Wife, Season 1: Bad
Tagged: Gun, shoot, Kill
“People aren’t mean. They’re just polite liars.”
— Alicia Florrick, The Good Wife, Season 4: Anatomy of a Joke
Tagged: mean, People, liars, polite
“Religion is like a drug, in small doses it’s curative, in large, it’s addictive.”
— Eli Gold, The Good Wife, Season 1: Heart
Tagged: Religion, Simile Examples, curative, doses, Drug, addictive
“Whenever I think I’m certain about something, I’m always surprised.”
— Alicia Florrick, The Good Wife, Season 6: Open Source
Tagged: certain, Surprised
“Absence of yes times time equals no. That’s the law.”
— Eli Gold, The Good Wife, Season 6: Undisclosed Recipients
Tagged: Absence, Law, Yes, no
“When the door you have been knocking at finally swings open, you don’t ask why. You run through.”
— Diane Lockhart, The Good Wife, Season 4: The Seven Day Rule
Tagged: Metaphor Examples, Life, door , Knocking, Run
loading next page...