Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives

Mary Alice: It's a rare man that understands the value of a perfect rose.

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Desperate Housewives

Bree: Girls, you don't understand. This poor kid is scared out of his mind.
Gabrielle: Oh, for God's sake, Bree. You're a woman. Manipulate him. That's what we do.
Bree: But how?
Gabrielle: I don't know. How did you usually manipulate Rex?
[Bree thinks about it, and smiles]

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Desperate Housewives

Karl: The heart wants what it wants!
Susan: Yeah, well, my heart wants to hurt you, but I'm able to control myself!

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Desperate Housewives

Julie: [mocking Susan] Dear diary, Mike doesn't even know I'm alive.
Susan: Shut up.

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Desperate Housewives

Gabrielle: Damn it, John! What's our new rule?
John Rowland: [sadly] Stop pretending we have a future.

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Desperate Housewives

John Rowland: What other option do you have? Except return the shoes and get your money back.
Gabrielle: Return the shoes? I can't talk to you when you're hysterical.

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Desperate Housewives

Bree: [Rex has just admitted that he is a masochist] What the hell did your mother do to you?

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Desperate Housewives

Paul Young: [asking about selling the house] Will I have to tell them about my wife's death in the house?
Edie: [applying make-up] Yeah. Legal crap. People get really freaked out by suicides. Hell, I get the willies just standing here.
Paul Young: Is there any other option?
Edie: [applying lipstick] Well, you

could say that she shot herself in the house, then crawled out back to die...

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Desperate Housewives

Rex: So, these "tennis lessons" we're taking, how are we doing?
Bree: My backhand is improving greatly, but you're still having problems with your serve.

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Desperate Housewives

Nora Huntington: You think I'm crazy.
Lynette Scavo: No! You're... colorful. Colorful in a way that might respond to medication.

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Desperate Housewives

Susan: Hey, Edie!
Edie: Wow, get a load of you. You look so pretty. I hardly recognize you.

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Desperate Housewives

Bree: Okay, now I want you to hold the gun like you're holding a beautiful white dove. Hold it firmly enough that it can't get away, but not so firmly that you can kill it.

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Desperate Housewives

Lynette: Hi. My baby-sitter cancelled.
Bree: I've got millions of errands to run so...
Lynette: Please hear me out, this is important. Today I have a chance to join the human race for a few hours - there are actual adults waiting for me with margaritas. Look, I'm in a dress, I have make-up on.
Bree: If it were

any other day?
Lynette: Oh, for God's sake, Bree, I'm wearing pantyhose.

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Desperate Housewives

Mr. Shaw: Sometimes evil drives a minivan.

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Desperate Housewives

Susan: Every time we went out for pizza you could have said, "Hey, I once killed a man".

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Desperate Housewives

Bree: [sighting down the P-08 Luger she has been given] George! This is so much better than an orchid!

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Desperate Housewives

John Rowland: This is great. Got tons of homework tonight. It's always easier to concentrate after sex.
Gabrielle: Well, I'm glad I could help. Education's very important.

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Desperate Housewives

Susan: Do you believe in evil, Edie?
Edie: Of course I believe in evil - I work in real estate.

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Desperate Housewives

Bree: [to Rex] When is your midlife crisis going to end, because it's really starting to tick me off!

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Desperate Housewives

Bree: [final words to Rex] You look magnificent.