House of Cards Quotes
Elizabeth Urquhart: [talking about Henry Collingridge] I hope he's not going to sack you, Francis.
Francis Urquhart: He better not bloody well try.
Francis Urquhart: He better not bloody well try.
TV Show: House of Cards
Elizabeth Urquhart: [talking about Henry Collingridge] I hope he's not going to sack you, Francis.
Francis Urquhart: He better not bloody well try.
Francis Urquhart: He better not bloody well try.
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Francis Urquhart: Nothing lasts forever. Even the longest, the most glittering reign must come to an end someday.
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Francis Urquhart: Oh, I'm just the Chief Whip, Mattie. My personal feelings are neither here nor there. I look after morale and discipline amongst the back-benchers, keep them up to the mark, listen to their problems, help them out when I can, administer some sharp kicks up the backside when that seems indicated.
Mattie Storin: Just like a prefect, head of house sort of thing... I'm sorry, that sounds very cheeky.
Francis Urquhart: Not at all. That's exactly what it's like.
Mattie Storin: Everyone says you're very good at it.
Francis Urquhart: I believe I am, Mattie. I believe I am.
Mattie Storin: Just like a prefect, head of house sort of thing... I'm sorry, that sounds very cheeky.
Francis Urquhart: Not at all. That's exactly what it's like.
Mattie Storin: Everyone says you're very good at it.
Francis Urquhart: I believe I am, Mattie. I believe I am.
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Francis Urquhart: £22,370 in the last ten months, I make it. Here we are. [passes a piece of paper to Roger]
Francis Urquhart: Have a look at the figures. Might be slightly out, but not by more than a tenner or so. Bit steep for a few lunches, wouldn't you say?
Roger O'Neill: It's all... [sneezes twice]
Francis Urquhart: Cocaine is awfully expensive stuff, isn't it? Is it worth it? They say it makes a good man brilliant. If that's so, you must be a genius.
Francis Urquhart: Have a look at the figures. Might be slightly out, but not by more than a tenner or so. Bit steep for a few lunches, wouldn't you say?
Roger O'Neill: It's all... [sneezes twice]
Francis Urquhart: Cocaine is awfully expensive stuff, isn't it? Is it worth it? They say it makes a good man brilliant. If that's so, you must be a genius.
TV Show: House of Cards
Francis Urquhart: A party conference can be many things: a show of confidence, an agonising reappraisal, or, as in this cases, a series of auditions by pretenders to the throne while the lost leader withers before our very eyes.
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Francis Urquhart: Playing with the hopes and dreams of a daughter, now gentle, now hard, rebuking and rewarding, chastising and forgiving. The pleasures of a father. Of a father of daughters. What greater power is there than that? Why should a man want more? Why should I yearn to be everybody's daddy?
TV Show: House of Cards
Prime Minister Henry Collingridge: It was a good speech at four o'clock this morning and it's still a good speech.
TV Show: House of Cards