Det. William Moreland: You seem awfully happy today.

Det. Ray Cole: I got laid last night.

Det. William Moreland: Oh yeah? Your asshole still hurt?
Moreland: I'm just a humble motherfucker with a big-ass dick.

Freamon: You give yourself too much credit.

Moreland: Okay then. I ain't that humble.
Dennis 'Cutty' Wise: The game done changed...

Slim Charles: Game's the same, just got more fierce.
Avon Barksdale: I ain't no suit-wearin' businessman like you... you know I'm just a gangsta I suppose...
Det. William Moreland: Boy, them Greeks and those twisted-ass names.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Man, lay off the Greeks. They invented civilization.

Det. William Moreland: Yeah? Ass-fucking, too.
Brother Mouzone: I see you favor a .45.

Omar: At night I do. And I keeps one in the chamber in case you ponderin'.
[repeated line]

Omar: All in the game yo, all in the game.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: All those mopes in bracelets and not one of them named Osama.
Freamon: A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: [during interrogation] No name, huh? Well, for now, we'll just call you Boris.

Sergei 'Serge' Malatov: [sighs] Boris. Why always Boris?
Det. William Moreland: [repeated line to McNulty] Happy now, bitch?
[repeated line]

State Sen. R. Clayton 'Clay' Davis: SHIIIIIT
[repeated line]

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: What the fuck did I do?
Lt. Dennis Mello: [repeated line at end of role call] Don't get captured!

The Wire Quotes

Extended Reading

The Wire short comments

Sedrick 2021-10-20 19:02:23

Good-looking and good-looking, the social portraits of anti-corruption and cracking down on the underworld have the breath of martial arts novels. Not a single character is facialized, all of them come alive.
Melany 2021-10-20 19:02:24

Originally, we were in the mood to give up at any time to look at this series of seriousness that has exceeded the leisure standard after dinner, but its three-dimensional portrayal of the characters, the unorganized development of multi-line events, and the high-end quality have to be abandoned. The drama turned into regret, so we decided to finish it.