The Most Interesting Quotes from The Boys

People love that cozy feeling that Supes give them. Some golden c**t to swoop out of the sky and save the day so you don’t got to do it yourself.Billy Butcher, S1.Ep1: The Name of the Game

Just ’cause you fall on your ass doesn’t mean you have to stay there.Hughie Campbell, (quoting Robin), S1.Ep1: The Name of the Game

My father was bipolar. One night, when I was ten, he tried to smother me with a Hello Kitty duvet.Frenchie, S1.Ep3: Get Some

We’ll cross that bridge when we burn it.Billy Butcher, S1.Ep3: Get Some

I figured if you wait around long enough, two plus two equals nasty.Mother's Milk, S1.Ep3: Get Some

As a rule, I don’t usually go out after a gory massacre.Hughie Campbell, S1.Ep4: The Female of the Species

When they’re apart, they’re absolute f***ing rubbish. But, you put them together, they’re the goddamn f***ing Spice Girls.Billy Butcher, S1.Ep4: The Female of the Species

He’s got a hard-on for mass murder and giving kids cancer, and his big old answer to the existential clusterf*** that is humanity, is to nail his own bleeding son to a plank.Billy Butcher, (about God), S1.Ep5: Good for the Soul

Here’s the truth. Anyone who tells you they know the answers is lying.Starlight, S1.Ep5: Good for the Soul

You know, you’re always calling people “c**ts” or “tw*ts”. But I never really got how that’s an insult? They’re flexible, take a pounding, and they’re the reason behind, like, 98% of my life decisions.Hughie Campbell, (to Billy), S1.Ep6: The Innocents

So, what if I took you to a house you’d never seen before, full of photos of parents you never met, toys you never played with, Hardy Boy books that you never read? And then I asked you how much all that fake f***ing bulls*** meant to you? How would that make you feel?Homelander, (to Madelyn), S1.Ep6: The Innocents

Sometimes you get further with people by treating them like people.Mother's Milk, (to Billy), S1.Ep6: The Innocents

You tell anyone what you saw or heard here today, and I’ll cut your hands off and shove them so far up your ass, your fingers’ll give us a little wave out your throat, yeah?Billy Butcher, (to Mesmer), S1.Ep6: The Innocents

Everyone always asks, what’s our special weakness? Gamma rays? Iron daggers? Some ridiculous, stupid thing? The truth is, our weakness is the same as anyone’s. It’s people. The people we care about.Queen Maeve, S1.Ep7: The Self-Preservation Society

Vengeance isn’t a path to glory. It’s a one-way ticket to a dead end.Grace Mallory, (to Hughie), S1.Ep8: You Found Me

This is a f***ing mess, son. We got a Supe terrorist, Rayner’s blown her canister, and we’re the most wanted c**ts in the country. But don’t you worry. Daddy’s home.Billy Butcher, (to Hughie), S2.Ep1: The Big Ride

Sometimes it’s hard being superior to every single other person on the planet. It’s isolating. And gods should not have to feel that kind of pain. Because that is what we are. You and me. We’re gods.Homelander, (to Ryan), S2.Ep2: Proper Preparation and Planning

F*** this world for confusing nice with good. Be a b**ch if you want. Be whatever. Just drop the mask once in a while. Feels good. You can finally breathe.Stormfront, S2.Ep2: Proper Preparation and Planning

A stranger is just a friend you ain’t met yet.Billy Butcher, S2.Ep3: Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men

You see, companies, they come and go, but talent… talent is forever.Homelander, (to Stan), S2.Ep3: Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men

You can’t win the whole country anymore. No one can. So why are you even trying? You don’t need 50 million people to love you. You need 5 million people f***ing pi**ed. Emotion sells, anger sells.Stormfront, (to Homelander), S2.Ep4: Nothing Like It in the World

Expecting a happy ending, were we? Well, I’m sorry, Hughie. It ain’t that kind of massage parlor.Billy Butcher, S2.Ep5: We Gotta Go Now

Never go into shark-infested waters without chum.Billy Butcher, S2.Ep6: The Bloody Doors Off

Life has always been hard, but I don’t remember it being quite this crude.Frenchie, S2.Ep7: Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker

It doesn’t matter what we do, nothing changes. Nothing ever changes or gets better.Queen Maeve, S2.Ep8: What I Know

People love what I have to say. They believe in it. They just don’t like the word “Nazi”, that’s all.Stormfront, S2.Ep8: What I Know

If you jump ship and you let the a**holes steer, then you’re part of the problem.Starlight, (to Hughie), S2.Ep8: What I Know

We don’t need a f***ing master race. I’m the master race.Homelander, S3.Ep1: The Big Ride

All my life, people have tried to control me. My whole life. Rich people, powerful people have tried to muzzle me, cancel me, keep me impotent and obedient, like I’m a f***ing puppet. You know what? It worked. Because I allowed it to work. And guess what. If they can control me, then you can bet your ass they can control you. They already do. You just don’t realize it.Homelander, S3.Ep2: The Only Man in the Sky

With great power comes the absolute certainty that you’ll turn into a right c**t.Billy Butcher, S3.Ep5: The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies

You don’t need powers. You just need to be human.Starlight, (Ashley Barrett: I don't have powers.), S3.Ep5: The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies

Buddy, you think you look strong? You’re wearing a cape. You’re just a cheap f***ing knockoff.Soldier Boy, (to Homelander), S3.Ep6: Herogasm

It seems no matter how much we try to run, we cannot escape our old lives, huh? I suppose no one can run that fast.Frenchie, (to Kimiko), S3.Ep6: Herogasm

That’s the difference between you and me. You need to be a Supe. I can’t wait till it’s over.Queen Maeve, (to Homelander), S3.Ep7: Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed

When you’re as strong as we are, accidents happen, things break, and sometimes they are the things that you love the most.Homelander, (to Ryan), S3.Ep8: The Instant White-Hot Wild

We save everyone. Even if they don’t deserve it. Especially, if they don’t deserve it.Hughie Campbell, S3.Ep8: The Instant White-Hot Wild

First time your prissy ass showed up at the Tower, crying in that bathroom… You saved me. Truth is, you don’t need me anymore. I could jump. But you can f***ing fly.Queen Maeve, (to Starlight), S3.Ep8: The Instant White-Hot Wild

I save people, they cheer. I f***ing kill people, they cheer. It’s meaningless. Humans are nothing. They’re less than nothing. They’re just toys for my amusement. And yet they control everything. It’s unnatural.Homelander, The Boys, S4.Ep1: Department of Dirty Tricks

To be a good skipper, you gotta be a right a**hole. Ain’t no room for compassion.Billy Butcher, (to Mother's Milk), S4.Ep2: Life Among the Septics

Firecracker: Y’all just think I’m stupid poor white trash.
Sister Sage: I don’t think you’re poor.Sister Sage, (to Mother's Milk), S4.Ep2: Life Among the Septics

Starlight: We run, we don’t all make it.
Billy Butcher: Darwinism, love. Don’t got to be the fastest, just not the slowest.Billy Butcher, (to Mother's Milk), S4.Ep2: Life Among the Septics

Starlight: Wait. Tek Knight has super smell?
Mother’s Milk: Yeah. Smell, vision, taste, touch. He’s like Sherlock Holmes on meth.Mother's Milk, S4.Ep6: Dirty Business

The truth is America is not a democracy. The word “democracy” makes people feel safe. But the founders never trusted the masses, because the truth is, the masses are f***ing stupid. Anyone who owns a “Live, Laugh, Love” mug shouldn’t have a say in how a country is run. People are a labor force that need a kind, but firm hand. There are no nations. There’s Apple, Exxon and Berkshire Hathaway.Victoria Neuman, S4.Ep6: Dirty Business

I’d rather f*** a jar of fishing lures than to be free.Frenchie, S4.Ep7: The Insider

If we’re ever gonna win against monsters, I think we need to start acting human.Hughie Campbell, S4.Ep8: Season Four Finale

We will make America strong again. Proud again. And most of all, we will make America super again.Firecracker, S4.Ep8: Season Four Finale

Stan Edgar: You’re fighting an unbeatable foe. You know that, right?
Mother’s Milk: Who? Vought?
Stan Edgar: Please. It’s more powerful than Vought. Or Homelander. More powerful than nature or life itself. It’s profit and loss. Supply and demand. The elegant flow of currency across the globe. We’re just cogs in a great machine, and we all have our part to play. Say you kill Soldier Boy, or Homelander, or even release this virus? When Superheroes go out of fashion, something else will just take their place. Because corporations must still grow. Money must still be made. The machine must still be fed. That is the way of the world.Stan Edgar, S5.Ep3: Every One of You Sons of Bitches

The thing people hate more than just about anything is feeling stupid.Sister Sage, S5.Ep5: One-Shots

Summer is only beautiful when you know winter is coming.Golden Geisha, S5.Ep6: Though the Heavens Fall

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making you think nuts were milk.Homelander, S5.Ep7: The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother's Milk

Posh Spice was easily the most s*** member of the squad. Could barely sing or dance. No discernible talent whatsoever. Wasn’t even featured on “Wannabe.” But did that stop her? No. You look at her now. Still married with Becks. Fifteen engagement rings, 32 Vogue covers, inducted by Prince William into the Order of the bloody British Empire. Even I doubted her move into women’s apparel, but her line is a staple at Paris f***ing Fashion Week. You see, despite her obvious disadvantages, including a tragic inability to smile, she never gave up, and we ain’t giving up, either.Billy Butcher, S5.Ep7: The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother's Milk

No matter how smart you are, there is still mystery in the world. Isn’t that wonderful?Frenchie, (to Sage), S5.Ep7: The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother's Milk

Giving a s*** in a world where nobody gives a s***? It ain’t soft. It’s hard as hell.Mother's Milk, S5.Ep7: The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother's Milk

You are not a monster, Butcher. It just hurts to be human.Hughie Campbell, S5.Ep8: Blood and Bone