Firefly – Series Quotes

— If anyone gets nosy, you know, just... shoot 'em.
— Shoot 'em?
— Politely.

My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.

— I use swear words like anybody else.
— Oh, really? I never heard you. When is it that you do all this cussing? After I go to bed or...?
— I swear when it's appropriate.
— Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.

You know... there's a certain motto. A creed among folks like us. You may have heard it. "Leave no man behind."

— I know somethin' ain't right.
— Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is, die of old age before it finds you.

Zoe: — No one's gonna force you to go, Jayne. As has been stated, this job is strictly speculative.
Jayne Cobb: — Good. Don't know these folks. Don't much care to.
"Mal": — They're whores.
Jayne Cobb: — I'm in.

Well, they tell ya, never hit a man with a closed fist... but it is, on occasion, hilarious.

— When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, you... when you can't do that...
— You find someone to carry you.

The next time you decide to stab me in the back... have the guts to do it to my face.

— We're gonna die.
— We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. And you know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die. Huh? Look at that chiseled jaw, huh?

— River, you don't fix the Bible.
— It's broken. It doesn't make sense.
— It's not about making sense. It's about believing in something. And letting that belief be real enough to change your life. It's about faith. You don't fix faith, River. It fixes you.

— If you require it... any gentleman here can give you use of a sword.
— Use of a what?

Simon Tam: — Uh, I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can. How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep?
Malcolm Reynolds: — You don't know me, son, so let me explain this to you once. If I ever kill you, you'll be awake. You'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
Simon Tam: — Are you always this sentimental?
Malcolm Reynolds: — I had a good day.
Simon Tam: — You had the Alliance on you — criminals and savages. Half the people on this ship have been shot or wounded, including yourself... — and you're harboring known fugitives.
Malcolm Reynolds: — Well, we're still flyin'.
Simon Tam: — That's not much.
Malcolm Reynolds: — It's enough.

— Proximity alert. We must be coming up on something.
— Oh, my God. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing? Oh, right. That would be me. Uh, back to work.