house of cards (US) starters

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from the first season.
content warning: violence, sexuality, profanity, gendered slurs.

• ❝ I have no patience for useless things. ❞
  
• ❝ I love that woman. I love her more than sharks love blood. ❞
  
• ❝ I almost pity him. ❞
  
• ❝ Wait. We’re in a very gray area. Ethically. Legally. Which I’m okay with – ❞
  
• ❝ We’re in the same boat now. Take care not to tip it over. I can only save one of us from drowning. ❞
• ❝ Centuries from now, when people watch this footage, who will they see smiling just at the edge of the frame? ❞
  
• ❝ They talk while I sit quietly and imagine their lightly salted faces frying in a skillet. ❞
  
• ❝ Such a waste of talent. ❞
  
• ❝ What a martyr craves more than anything is a sword to fall on, so you sharpen the blade, hold it at just the right angle, and then 3, 2, 1– ❞
  
• ❝ Nobody can hear you. Nobody cares about you. Nothing will come of this. ❞
• ❝ You want my advice? ❞
  
• ❝ Treading water is the same as drowning, for people like you and me. ❞
  
• ❝ I know all about hate. ❞
  
• ❝ Maybe it’s best he died so young. He wasn’t doing much but taking up space. ❞
  
• ❝ You don’t have to lecture me like a little girl. ❞
• ❝ You’ve got a long way to go. Don’t be so arrogant. ❞
  
• ❝ It’s so refreshing to work with someone who’ll throw a saddle on a gift horse rather than look it in the mouth. ❞
  
• ❝ I don’t think you appreciate anything. I think you’re an ungrateful, self-entitled little c– ❞
  
• ❝ Cunt. You’re a cunt. ❞
• ❝ Friends make the worst enemies. ❞
• ❝ Nobody tells me when to work and when to play. ❞
  
• ❝ That’s a rookie mistake. ❞
  
• ❝ Are you letting pride cloud your judgment? ❞
  
• ❝ I promise you’ll never be bored. ❞
  
• ❝ The most you’ll ever make of yourself is blowing men like me. ❞
• ❝ I can smell the cock on your breath from here. ❞
  
• ❝ You think you can get under my skin? ❞
  
• ❝ You’re too intimidating. ❞
  
• ❝ Do you get off on this or something? ❞
• ❝ There’s no better way to overpower a trickle of doubt than with a flood of naked truth. ❞
  
• ❝ I have to be ruthless, because failure is not an option. ❞
  
• ❝ So, you’re fuckin’ my son? ❞
  
• ❝ Here’s another truth that’s gonna be hard to swallow: I’m all you’ve got. ❞
  
• ❝ I’m not going to lie. I despise children. There. I’ve said it. ❞
  
• ❝ So, a piece of advice as far as career strategies go: It’s not worth fucking your way to the middle. ❞
  
• ❝ Proximity to power deludes some into believing they wield it. ❞
  
• ❝ A great man once said, everything is about sex. Except sex. Sex is about power. ❞
  
• ❝ I have zero tolerance for betrayal, which they will soon indelibly learn. ❞
  
• ❝ You don’t understand, I’m not afraid of you anymore. ❞
  
• ❝ Such a shame, how naive you are. ❞
  
• ❝ I just thought I should open those big bright eyes. ❞
  
• ❝ You want me to teach you? ❞
  
• ❝ I wanted to be significant. ❞
  
• ❝ I envy your free spirit, and I’m attracted to it, but not all of us have that luxury. ❞
  
• ❝ What I chose was a man I could love for more than a week. ❞
  
• ❝ Fact, I have something that you want. You have something that I want. ❞
  
• ❝ Have I said something amusing? ❞
• ❝ He doesn’t measure his wealth in private jets, but purchased souls. ❞
  
• ❝ Of all the things I hold in high regards, rules are not one of them. ❞
  
• ❝ Are you even capable of language, or do you only understand depravity? ❞
  
• ❝ Have the courage in death that you never had in life. ❞
  
• ❝ I pray to myself, for myself. ❞
  
• ❝ I won’t let people like you fuck up the world my child has to live in. ❞
  
• ❝ Am I an enemy you want to make? ❞
  
• ❝ You can’t purchase loyalty. Not the sort I have in mind. ❞