10 Timeless Love Quotes From Mad Men

Over the course of 4 seasons, the characters on Mad Men have had their fair share of romantic drama—and they've given us some great quotes about love along the way. We admit that a lot has changed since the smoke-filled 1960's (we would never pour a glass of whiskey in a business meeting or be able to pull off any of Joan Holloway's outfits). But matters of the heart never seem to change.

 

We love these 10 quotes from the always-clever Mad Men... after all, nobody says it better than the wordsmiths of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.

 

1. Betty Draper: "You don't kiss boys. Boys kiss you." 9 Sneaky Ways To Let Him Know You Like Him

 

2. Roger Sterling: "You know what my father used to say? 'Being with a client is like being in a marriage. Sometimes you get into it for the wrong reasons, and eventually they hit you in the face.'"

 

3. Don Draper: "Oh, you mean love. You mean the big lightning bolt to the heart where you can't eat and you can't work and you just run off and get married and make babies. The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons. You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one." Top Eight Love Slogans That Lie

 

4. Pete Campbell: "Of course I love you. I'm giving up my life to be with you."

 

5. Roger Sterling: "You're not good at relationships because you don't value them."

 

6. Don Draper: "Nostalgia—it's delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, 'nostalgia' literally means 'the pain from an old wound.' It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards... it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel. It let's us travel the way a child travels—around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved."