Moffat: "I've worked very hard to create an image of Canadians we can all be proud of."
Fraser: "Yes sir."
Moffat: "You, on the other hand, have been doing everything in your power to wreak havoc on that image."
Fraser: "Sir?"
Moffat: "All this do-gooding, Constable. Picking up litter, rescuing kittens, saving people's lives. What sort of message do you suppose that sends to the Americans?"
Fraser: "That we care, sir?"
Moffat: "Exactly, and people don't fear people who care."
Fraser: "I'm sorry, sir. I wasn't aware that we wanted the Americans to fear us."
Moffat: "That's what every country wants, Fraser."
Moffat: "...That's what Canada needs."
Fraser: "To be feared by tailors?"
(After Moffat yells at tailor)

"There is nothing more frustrating than playing hide and seek with a deaf wolf."
(Benton Fraser)

"Alright, no more Mr Nice Man..."
(Fraser)

Ray: "Mounties do not lie. If he says it's his letter, it's his letter."
Postal Clerk: "I don't care if he's Sgt. Preston. He's not getting the letter."

Fraser: "This isn't just mail, Ray. This is a highly sensitive Canadian document."
Ray: "Oh, you guys planning an invasion?"
Fraser: "Well, I'm not entirely sure. I think I may have said too much already."
(Regarding delivery of party invitation)

Nick: "Who was that?" [Fraser had just left]
Katherine: "Oh, no one, dear. A Mountie. He means nothing to me."
Nigel: "And what's that supposed to mean? He means nothing?"

He's a total stranger. If I hadn't been lying on top of him, I hardly would have recognized him."
(Katherine to jealous fiance, Nigel)

"Katherine: "I'm sure it's just an innocent infatuation, dear. Isn't that true?"
Fraser: "No." (as in it's not an infatuation or anything like that) Nigel: "What?"
Katherine: "Really?"
Nigel: "How long has this been going on?"
Katherine: "Just since this morning."

Katherine: "He can't hear you. He's mute."
Fraser: "I believe you mean deaf."
Katherine: "Oh yes. Thank you, sweetheart."
Marriage Clerk: "You're marrying a deaf-mute Mountie and you didn't recognize him?"
Fraser: "Perhaps I can explain."
Marriage Clerk: "If he's deaf-mute, why is he talking?"
Katherine: "Now you're criticizing the handicapped?"

Katherine: "Get under my dress!"
Fraser: "You want me to get underneath your wedding dress?"
Katherine: "Yes!"
Fraser: "Isn't that bad luck?"

"Oh, he's usually a very sweet man. It's just that when he gets jealous, there's no reasoning with him. Well, you know what the Swiss are like."
(Katherine to Fraser regarding Nigel)

Moffat: "How long does it take to do a simple task?"
Jasmine: "He said he'd be back soon, sir."
Moffat: "Well, if he's not here in five minutes, he doesn't have to bother showing up at all. No more excuses. I will not be made to look like a fool."
Ray: (to Dief in Fraser's office): "Trouble."

"Mental note. Send Fraser north for a little R&R. I think he's been spending too much time with that Chicago policeman."
(Moffat, to himself, after observing Ray doing doorman duty)

Ray: "Let me think this through. If Fraser were with a beautiful woman, where would he end up?"
Dief: (woof)
Ray: "No, no, no. That's you and me. Come on, think. Okay, what is the most unglamorous, unromantic place you could possibly take a woman?"
Dief: (woof, takes off after garbage truck that goes past Consulate)
Ray: "Oh, come on? A garbage truck?? Not even Fraser is that, ...Hold on, Benny!"

Katherine: "What is wrong with you? A man is trying to kill you. You're supposed to hate him. A woman throws herself at you. You're supposed to... you're supposed to do something."
Fraser: "Miss Burns. You are engaged to be married."

"You got a lot of nerve. For a Canadian."
(Nigel to Fraser)

"Congratulations. I hear you're getting married."
(Ray to Fraser)

Ray: "You don't want to know why I'm wearing your uniform."
Fraser: "I just assumed it was something personal."

Fraser: "Mr. Ellis, I want to assure you that Katherine has been completely faithful to you."
Katherine: "Except for the part on the waterbed."
Ray: "Waterbed?"
Fraser: "That was entirely innocent."
Ray: "Yeah, big shock there."

There's nothing you can do to prove a virtue."
(Fraser to Nigel)

Ray: "I can't believe you threw your hat."
Fraser: "Well, it's got an incredibly stiff brim. It's actually specifically designed to..."
Ray: "We're in the middle of a crisis and you throw you hat."
Fraser: "I'm sorry, Ray."

"Do you know what I love about Canadians? They're really easy to elbow out of the way."
(Ray to Fraser, at Consulate, regarding buffet)

Fraser: "There's a certain matter that I've withheld from you for some time now, and I feel if I don't clear my conscience soon."
Ray: "Okay, okay, clear."
Fraser: "It appears that there's a situation which I have unwittingly encouraged and it's taken a turn that I perhaps foolishly had not anticipated or was even aware of as a remote possibility but insofar as it is a matter of the heart and directly affects someone who is close to both of us."
Ray: "Fraser, you've got from here to my desk. Make it count."
Fraser: "Saturday last your sister came to my apartment in the middle of the night dressed in what can only be described as less than requisite attire and offered herself to me."
Ray: "Okay, great. Now beat it.
(Fraser goes down hall and Ray stops in his tracks)
Ray: ".... My sister?"
Fraser: "Yes."
Ray: "You slept with my sister?"
Fraser: "Did she say that?"
Ray: "No, she did not say that. She is my sister. I do not discuss sex with my sister."
Fraser: "So, she didn't say...?"
Ray: "No."
Fraser: "Oh well. Very well. Forget that I mentioned it." (runs)
Ray: "Hey, Fraser!"

Ray, I had no choice. The door just opened...she was standing there, and then when she took off her coat there was very much more of her standing there."
(Benton Fraser)

"Okay, I'm standing at his door. I drop my coat. I look at him and he looks at me. You know how a squirrel looks just before you hit him?"
(Francesca to Elaine, re Fraser)

"Okay, the way I see it, you have two options: you can tell me exactly what happened with my kid sister that night in your apartment or one of us isn't leaving this closet alive."
(Ray to Fraser, in closet)

"Francesca: [to Gloria] "...that look in his eyes. You know that long slow drift from here [neck] to there [below waist]. Well, you know. It's so romantic."
Ray (overhears it): "I'm telling you. Nothing better have happened."
(To Fraser, re the Mountie and his sister)

"Out of curiosity, where was the wolf during all this time?"
(Lt. Welsh to Francesca, re her and Fraser's 'encounter')

"Okay, so we're looking for a transient with clean fingernails who smells like chili."
(Ray Vecchio)

Fraser: "There are more things in heaven and earth than have been dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio. You see, Horatio was..."
Ray: "Hamlet's best friend. I know. I saw the movie."
Fraser: "Well, Hamlet sees his father's ghost."
Ray: "Yeah. He also kills his uncle and spends entirely way too much time talking to skeletons."
Fraser: "Well, I suppose that would follow."

They couldn't find an eggroll in Chinatown."
(Ray to Fraser re Feds)

Ray: "So, Francesca."
Fraser: "Your sister."
Ray: "You're not going to tell me, are you?"
Fraser: "No, Ray."
Ray: "I'm going to have to live with this, aren't I?"
Fraser: "Yes."
Ray: "Stupid, right? I mean, if I want anybody to sleep with my sister, and I'm not encouraging this, I'd want it to be you."
Fraser: "That's very generous of you."

"Eighty bucks."
"To fix that thing? I can buy a new for that."
"Not like this one. This one's got character. Not a common commodity among vacuums."
"Oh dear! I appear to be...ahhhh...little...ummm..."
"How much?"
"Sixty dollars. Thank you kindly."
"No I thank you."
(repairman, Ray and Fraser)

"He was a lousy father. But boy, could he play pool. It was the one thing in life he did well."
(Ray to Fraser re his father)

"Is Fraser here?"
"No he's not here. How many times do I have to tell you."
"Because if he is I'll kill you. Is she in the driver's seat?"
"She's coming, ma!"
"Oh no! Ma, you're not driving. We're not going 35 all the way to Florida."
(Franny and Ray)

"What's wrong with your hat?"
"Oh, huh! This is the one they buried me in. They had to snip off the back so I could like flat. I'm sure they meant well, but they have no idea how embarrassing these things can be in the after life."
(Benton and Robert Fraser)

"I arrested your mother once."
"You did not!"
"Honest to God. I gave her a speeding ticket."
"You knew it was her car and you pulled her over anyway?"
"No, I was right there in the passenger seat."
"Get out!"
"She was doing 45 in a 30."
(Robert Fraser, Benton Fraser)

Fraser Sr.: "Women. Have you ever been able to figure then out, son?"
Fraser: "Actually, I'm asking you for your advice, Dad."
Fraser Sr.: "In my 57 years of being alive and my 14 months of being dead, I only learned one thing about women and that's that I haven't learned one damned thing about women."

"I'm sorry."
"No, it's all right, I probably deserve it."
"You do."
(Fraser and Victoria)

"She drove the getaway car. She and two men robbed a bank in Alaska. One of them died, one of them fled south and she came across the border in a light airplane. It was forced down because of weather. The pilot abandoned her. I tracked her into a place called Fortitude Pass. A storm had been blowing for days and by the time I'd found her I'd lost everything. My pack. My supplies... She was huddled in a crag in the lee side of a mountain. Almost frozen. Very near death. So I staked a lean-to with my rifle and draped my coat around it. And I held onto her while the storm closed in around us. And I kept talking to her to keep her from slipping away. And it snowed for a day and a night and a day; and when I couldn't talk anymore I took her fingers and I put them in my mouth to keep them warm... I don't remember losing consciousness but I do remember being aware that I was dying... And then I heard her voice. She was reciting a poem. Over and over. And I couldn't make out the words but I couldn't stop listening. She had the most beautiful voice. It was as though I had known her forever. Across a thousand lifetimes... Uh, the storm finally broke and we were alive and after a day we found my pack. We ate everything, everything I had in one meal. And it took us four days to reach the nearest outpost. And we camped that night just outside the town within sight of the church's steeple. And I held her in my arms and she asked me to let her go. You see, no one knew that I had found her. The police didn't even know her name. I could just let her go. And she could walk away that night..."
(Fraser in "confession" )

Welsh: "Where's the big red one?"
Ray: "I think he's got himself a mystery woman."
Huey: "You mean you haven't met her?"
Ray: "Yeah, I met her."
Welsh: "So what's she like?"
Ray: "She's... uh... She's Canadian."
Welsh, Huey, and Guardino: "Oh."

"Three's a crowd, huh Dief?"
(Ray)

"Do you really have to go to work?"
"Yeah."
"So I guess you need this."
"Kind of."
[She begins to unbutton the jacket.] "Although, I do have something like 82 sick days coming to me."
"Mmmm, I think you should go straight to bed."
(Victoria and Fraser)

"It's just that I made a mistake once, and I can't make it again. You know I think there are certain things you live to regret in your life. Losing your friendship would be one of them, and losing her..."
(Fraser to Ray after argument at apartment; interrupted by gunshot)

Ray: "Any friend of Fraser's is a friend of mine."
Victoria: "So, you're Ray."
Ray: "Yeah, and you're Victoria. So how did you two meet?"
Victoria: "He arrested me."
Ray: "Ah, he meets a lot of people that way. Listen, you hurt him and I'll kill you."

Fraser: "Don't we need a warrant to go in there?"
Ray: "Not if there's imminent danger?"
Fraser: "And what kind of imminent danger might that be, Ray?"
Ray: "Oh, something like fire."
(Ray lights matchbook and throws it in apartment)

Louis: "Sir, I know that Vecchio's a real weasel and all, but he's a straight-up cop."
IAD Guy: "You don't seriously believe that, do you?"
Louis: "Oh yeah, serious weasel."

Fraser Sr.: "She's (Victoria) not coming, son."
Fraser: "You don't know her."
Fraser Sr.: "Neither do you."
Fraser: "I'm in love with her."
Fraser Sr.: "Doesn't mean you know her."
Fraser: "Did you know Mum? I mean did you know who she really was? Or did you know what you wanted her to be?"
Fraser Sr.: "I knew who she was in her soul. That's what I loved."
Fraser: "Come on, Dad. You weren't around long enough to call her by name. ... You know I've got almost no memory of the two of you together. Fraser Sr.: "Well, you were only six when died, for God's sake, and don't tell me I didn't love your mother, I still do. I wrote her every damned day of my life!"
Fraser: "I know. I've read your journals. You write beautifully."
Fraser Sr.: "No professional training but..."
Fraser: "You want to know something? You never saw her. You never saw who.. who she was. You never saw her when she was angry. You never saw her when she was frightened. You never saw her when she was brave or when she was petty. You never saw her."
Fraser Sr.: "She was a good woman. She deserved better."
Fraser: "No she didn't. She deserved you. And I'm not going to make the same mistake. Victoria is in trouble. Now... she scares the hell out of me. I don't even know if I can help her but I know that I need to be here. And I know who she is."

Ray:"Don't you have things to do in Hell or wherever you are?"
Father's Ghost: "Purgatory. For my sins I have to watch you make stupid mistakes. And who gave you permission to use my pool table?"
Ray: "Give it a rest, Pop."

Well, let me tell you something--you can go to Hell. And if you need directions, you can get them from the guy who's following me."
(Ray)

"You should take the deal."
"I haven't been offered one."
"You should take it anyway."
"Hey Benny: not in your lifetime."
(Fraser and Ray)

Fraser Sr.: "What are you doing?"
Fraser: "Go away."
Fraser Sr.: "She's not coming back to you, and why in God's name would you want her to?"
Fraser: Because... (trying to fight back tears) Because I... because I need... Oh God."
Fraser Sr.: "You're not going to get it. Sometimes in life all you need is that second chance. It's the one thing you're going to have."

"Listen, just because you can see them and their blinds are open, it's not to be taken as an invitation. It's unethical. It's also against the law. Aside from which you'll go blind."
(Fraser, to Diefenbaker, who is looking out the hospital windows.)

Fraser: "You know you can leave, Ray. I mean you don't have to come here every day."
Ray: "I know that."
Fraser: "I mean you have a job. You should go to work."
Ray: "I do go to work."
Fraser: "When?"
Ray: "When you're asleep. You do that a lot, you know."
Fraser: "Oh."

"In the meantime, we get through this the only way I know how, baseball."
(Ray to Fraser, in hospital room)

Ray: (looking down at Dief) "Don't they have rules about this sort of thing?"
Fraser: "The nurses have all taken pity on him. They feed him. They water him. They walk him regularly. They like him. He likes them. He eats better than I do. I think he's even happier here. Ingrate."

Fraser: "If you had come sooner, I might have been able to tell which one of us was actually..."
Fraser Sr.: "Dead?"
Fraser: "Yes."
Fraser Sr.: "It's not a dirty word, son, you can say it."

Fraser Sr.: "Oh my God."
Grandma: "Here, tell him to put these on they're warmer."
Fraser Sr.: "It's 70 degrees. These won't do him any good"
Fraser: "Who are you talking to?"
Fraser Sr.: "You don't see her?"
Fraser: "No."
Fraser Sr.: "It's your Grandmother. She brought you some pajamas."
Fraser: "Oh...thank her for me. Anybody else drop in?"
Fraser Sr.: "No, not so far."
Grandma: "You're babying him, Robert."
Fraser Sr.: "He's been shot, Mother!"
Grandma: "Can't stay in bed forever."
Fraser Sr.: "You didn't see her?"
Fraser: "How is she?"
Fraser Sr.: "Not dead enough, son."
(Robert Fraser, his mother, Benton Fraser)

"You'd better give him some, or he'll just embarrass himself."
(Fraser to Jill)

"You're in his chair."
(Fraser to Ray)

"It was an otter. I was ten, it was dead, someone hit me with it. Can we move on?"
(Jill to Fraser)

"Another hunter?"
"A friend, actually. He was aiming for someone else."
"Who?"
"A woman. She had committed, uh, a crime and was attempting to escape. He drew his weapon--"
"And you just happened to step in between?"
"Yes."
(Jill and Fraser)

"I do hate to see a good man go to waste."
(Jill)

"She's a lovely girl."
"She's not a girl, she's a therapist."
"Then one of us is going blind. By the way, son could you see your way clear to think of me in a pair of trunks?"
(Robert Fraser, Benton Fraser)

Fraser: "She's a doctor. He's an intern. They're lovers."
Ray: "So?"
Fraser: "He's betrayed her. She's going to kill him."
Ray: "Benny. Not every woman with long dark hair tries to kill her lover."
Fraser: "Oh."

Ray: "Hey, where do you buy lumber up there?" (in the Yukon) Fraser: "You cut it."

You got an axe for me?"
"Yes, I've got two axes..."
(Fraser)

"I think appearances can be deceiving."
(Fraser to Jill re case)

Ray: "Hey, Benny. Victoria was not your fault. It could've happened to anybody. You were blindsided."
Fraser: "I was going with her, you know."
Ray: "I know."

Fraser: "You hurt her. I understand that." [to Kevin] Carter: "You don't understand anything."
Fraser: "I understand that sometimes you can love someone so much that you're willing to do almost anything for them. The power of that kind of love can be very frightening."
Carter: "I don't care."
Fraser: "Oh, I think you do care. I think you care so deeply that when he betrayed you, you tried to do the only thing that made sense. You tried to destroy yourself. Don't let him do this to you."

Fraser: "Does it hurt?" [referring to Ray's bandaged shoulder]
Ray: "Of course it hurts."
Fraser: "Thanks."
Ray: "For what? Getting shot?"
Fraser: "Yeah."
Ray: "Yeah. Figured you'd like that."
Fraser: "Well, I'm not proud about that but I'll admit I did get a sort of perverse pleasure out of it."
Ray: "Ah hah. You see. You were mad at me."
Fraser: "Well, you shot me in the back."
Ray: "Well, that was an accident."
Fraser: "Well, I know, so was yours. I mean, it was an accident, wasn't it?"
Ray: "Yeah, of course it was."
Fraser: "Well, there you go. Enough said. Even Steven."
Ray: "Even Steven? Just give me those binoculars, will you? Even Steven. Nobody says even Steven anymore."
Fraser: "Really?"
Ray: "Yes."
Fraser: "Why?"
Ray: "It's juvenile."
Fraser: "Oh dear."
Ray: "Is there something going on in that window over there?"