10 Best ‘Suits’ Quotes, Ranked

After its record-breaking resurgence on Netflix, Suits discovered a brand new viewers to understand the wealthy characters portrayed onscreen. The authorized drama aired on the USA Community earlier than making its mainstream streaming debut in 2023 with seasons one by 8 and Season 9 in 2024. Fits chronicles the highs and lows of a Manhattan regulation agency led by Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) after he hires an affiliate, Mike Ross (Patrick Adams), who by no means went to regulation faculty. The supporting solid consists of Gina Torres as managing associate Jessica Pearson, senior associate Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman), authorized secretary Donna Paulsen (Sarah Rafferty), and paralegal Rachel Zane (Meghan Markle).

Every character finds their footing and distinctive tone within the dialogue, providing followers catchphrases, fast wit, monologues, thought-provoking arguments, and extra. The strains mark essential character arcs and expository revelations which are delivered by the professional solid. From courtroom bite-backs to Donna-isms, one of the best quotes from Fits are equally entertaining as they’re thought-provoking.

10 “Generally I like to hang around with individuals that are not that vibrant, , simply to see how the opposite half lives.”

Mike Ross (Season 1, Episode 1)

And thus among the finest bromances on tv started. When Mike is making an attempt to make a drop for Trevor’s (Tom Lipinski) drug deal, he stumbles into Harvey’s Harvard Legislation affiliate interviews, spilling the briefcase stuffed with weed. The pair instantly hit it off, flexing their mind in a battle of legalese that, finally, Mike wins. When Harvey critically considers hiring Mike with no regulation diploma (or any diploma), Mike solidifies Harvey’s selection by saying, “Generally I like to hang around with individuals that are not that vibrant, , simply to see how the opposite half lives.”

At this second, we see the town’s biggest nearer get closed by a person with no Harvard Legislation diploma. Mike’s capacity to match wits and present his starvation to be a lawyer was like trying in a mirror for Harvey. This line, launched in the underrated pilot episode, was the domino impact for the entire sequence.

9 “However the reality is, all of us have skeletons in our closets. The distinction between you and me is that I do not care to make use of them.”

Rachel Zane (Season 6, Episode 3)

Whereas Rachel’s character deserved much more than the girlfriend function, there have been a number of moments the place she stood as a pressure to be reckoned with. After Mike goes to jail, Rachel occupies her time with regulation faculty and faces her personal adversity throughout a debate in her sensible ethics class when her opponent, Naomi (Ashley Leggat) calls out Rachel’s engagement and Mike’s jail time for fraud. Rachel seeks Jessica’s opinion from one highly effective lady to an aspiring different. She returns to Naomi with a “skeleton” the viewers by no means sees, telling her how straightforward it was to go after her affiliation with Mike. In an illustration of Rachel’s character, she says, “However the reality is, all of us have skeletons in our closets. The distinction between you and me is that I do not care to make use of them.” Naomi reads a Rachel-written apology earlier than forfeiting the loss to Rachel.

The foremost gamers at Pearson Specter Litt don’t have any disgrace in utilizing skeletons to bend their opponent’s will, however as a substitute of publicly calling out Naomi, Rachel does it privately. She took heed of Jessica’s recommendation to indicate the category and the world she wasn’t afraid of individuals like Naomi, slightly they need to be afraid of Rachel.

8 “That is all of your fault. And what simply occurred to that lovely lady in there, that is on you! Not me!”

Louis Litt (Season 2, Episode 7)

Louis went from a bumbling supporting character to an ally, a villain, again to ally, and at last to household all through the 9 seasons. Throughout the mock trial to arrange for the Coastal Motors lawsuit, Louis needed to play villain to the one lady who he platonically cherished, Donna. His brutal cross-examination led to Donna storming out after he repeatedly requested if she cherished Harvey. The heated second led to a confrontation between Harvey and Louis within the rest room, with Harvey questioning his ulterior private motives. Reminding Harvey that the lawsuit, the mock trial, and every little thing else was all about saving his job, Louis reveals that he took no pleasure within the cross, screaming, “That is all of your fault. And what simply occurred to that lovely lady in there, that is on you! Not me!”

This scene revealed that Louis (for as soon as) hadn’t gotten misplaced in a second of rage, he was doing his job to arrange Donna for the worst the episode’s enemy, Travis Tanner (Eric Shut), would do in a courtroom. Louis’s emotional outburst at Harvey demanded that Harvey take accountability, whereas additionally exhibiting Louis wasn’t at all times the monster everybody made him out to be. This quote is likely one of the most eye-opening for Louis’s character within the early seasons of Fits.

7 “You woke the dragon, Charles. How do you want me now?”

Jessica Pearson (Season 3, Episode 15)

In one of many many cases the place Jessica went to bat for her agency, none was higher than when she instructed off the person who employed her outdoors the courtroom. The previous named associate Charles Van Dyke (Jamey Sheridan) comes calling to audit the agency’s books, searching for extra money. When the 2 meet outdoors the courtroom, Jessica should stall till Louis arrives with their profitable answer. She tells Van Dyke the story of how she discovered she was his variety rent and the way sick she felt. Whereas it motivated her to work exhausting to realize her standing, she would always remember how Van Dyke would at all times see her. Simply earlier than they enter the courtroom, she warns, “You woke the dragon, Charles. How do you want me now?”

That is certainly one of Jessica’s most defining quotes as a result of she by no means takes with no consideration her success in a male-dominated subject. She is a strong TV character and that is certainly one of her strongest moments, and one which proved so candy when she drops the hammer on her former mentor. As she reminds Harvey and the viewers all through the sequence, that is her identify on the door.

6 “I am Donna. I do know every little thing.”

Donna Paulsen (Season 2, Episode 8)

From episode one, audiences knew the executive and other people prowess Donna possessed. She holds irreplaceable worth to Harvey and the agency for greater than her fast wit. She’s an underrated TV character whose Donna-isms present much-needed comedic aid whereas additionally portraying sturdy confidence from a feminine character in a male-dominated trade. “Rewind” is a flashback episode targeted on how Harvey and Mike’s particular person selections led them to the place they’re now. Moreover, we see the primary change between Rachel and Donna, the place Donna stuns Rachel along with her insider information concerning the agency and her. When requested how, she merely says, “I am Donna. I do know every little thing.”

Two seasons in, it was clear Donna was the go-to supply for almost every little thing and everybody, preserving a heartbeat of expository information for viewers and characters with out going into intensive depth. Her introduction might not have been monumental to the episode’s narrative, however her demonstration of intuitiveness and openness created the muse for the sturdy bond she and Rachel maintained for the sequence’ entirety.

5 “Life is that this. I like this.”

Harvey Specter (Season 1, Episode 10)

One of many mottos Harvey establishes early and is known as again to throughout Suits‘ nine seasons appeared within the first season after Mike wins his first case. When a consumer’s accountant, Stan (John Billingsley) is fired for falsifying his credentials, Mike enlists Stan’s assist to dig into the financials of his former firm. The pair uncover numerous shelf corporations the CEO makes use of to embezzle cash from her shoppers. Whereas the agency will get a win within the case, Mike struggles with Stan’s unemployment mirroring his personal place at Pearson Hardman. Harvey, when confronted by Mike, explains that folks’s selections make them the lives they stay, saying, “Life is that this,” holding his hand flat, “I like this,” and elevating his hand greater. This phrase comes again a number of occasions over the seasons.

Stan’s dismissal is one thing Mike persistently grapples with for concern of getting caught. Harvey’s high-life mentality is not one thing Mike understands or desires, however in breaking down Harvey’s phrases, he realizes that you are able to do the minimal and stay life as it’s or you are able to do extra to realize what you need out of life. What Mike finally achieves by his sequence exit is way nearer to “I like this” than “Life is that this.”

4 “Do not play the case. Play the person.”

Harvey Specter (Season 1, Episode 7)

A negotiation tactic that arrange Harvey’s strategies for the remainder of the sequence, “Do not play the case. Play the person” was first uttered in Season 1 as recommendation to Mike. As Mike prepares for his second day of the mock trial, having made a idiot of himself the primary day, Harvey tells Mike that his technique is to deal with the opponent as a substitute of the details of the case. In later seasons, Harvey makes use of this saying when discussing his poker enjoying expertise, in studying the person throughout from him as a substitute of his playing cards.

Harvey’s closing skills require him to read people earlier than creating the deal to get what he desires, and by affiliation, what his consumer desires. The tactic, whereas manipulative, helps each of them in future instances the place there’s extra a lot at stake than a mock trial. In educating Mike this ideology early on, Harvey additional cultivates his likeness in his genius protégé.

3 “Why do not you inform me, when the hell does this grow to be your soiled little secret?”

Mike Ross (Season 4, Episode 11)

A turning level within the sequence and the agency’s trajectory, Louis blackmails his way back to Pearson Specter as named associate after discovering Mike’s secret. Jessica goes to Mike to have him draft the partnership settlement as equal elements punishment for his secret and due to his expertise. In certainly one of Mike’s most emotional and highly effective scenes, he goes off on Jessica for her fixed digs about his secret being the bane of her existence. Mike factors out that Jessica may have fired him the second she discovered, however as a substitute used him to her benefit in a number of key moments for her profit. Exasperated, he ends his rant and the dialog with, “Why do not you inform me, when the hell does this grow to be your soiled little secret?”

Mike’s secret weighs on the workforce for almost all of the sequence, and, up till this level, the finger was persistently pointed at Mike with no culpability taken by any of the agency’s leaders. In later seasons throughout Mike’s trial and the ethics board conferences, Jessica finally takes the autumn and leaves. However, on this scene, Mike factors out the plain that Jessica is refusing to confess.

2 “You are gonna get Litt up.”

Louis Litt (Season 3, Episode 13)

Whereas this is not the primary time the phrase was launched within the sequence, it was, maybe, the primary of many satisfying warnings from Louis. With Scottie (Abigail Spencer) becoming a member of the agency as a senior associate, her first case occurs to be for certainly one of Louis’s shoppers after he is over 10 minutes late to the companions’ assembly. It goes with out saying how Louis reacted, beginning their relationship off on the incorrect foot. His makes an attempt to make amends fail, resulting in a confrontation with Scottie the place he threatens his signature phrase, “You are gonna get Litt up.”

In an early episode, Katrina (Amanda Schull) had trademarked the phrase and gotten it printed on a mug. The saying grew to become synonymous with Louis’s skills as an attorney, as he wielded the ability behind it towards any particular person he got here into battle with, inside or exterior. Followers rewatching the sequence use it as a battle cry when watching Louis settle a case or win any of the agency’s many battles.

1 “You at all times have a selection.”

Harvey Specter (Season 4, Episode 4)

A sentiment echoed all through the sequence, and one that’s at all times left hanging into heavy air, the idea of selection and the high-stakes penalties is the driving pressure of Fits. After Mike leaves the agency to go official and work in funding banking with Jonathan Sidwell (Brandon Firla), he clashes with Pearson Specter Litt over his hostile takeover of Gillis Industries. Determined to maintain his new job and save Walter Gillis’s (Michael Gross) firm, Mike turns to Charles Forstman (Eric Roberts) for the cash. Simply earlier than the episode’s conclusion, Harvey confronts Mike and tries to persuade him to again out of Forstman’s deal. When Mike refuses to budge, Harvey’s parting phrases are “you at all times have a selection.”

In one of many many moments, Harvey sees himself in Mike, and this one hits deep as Mike begins to make the identical resolution he made years in the past. A dangerous Suits villain, Forstman pulls the strings behind dozens of conflicts the characters face, and Harvey would not need Mike so as to add one other. Harvey’s warning was a last-ditch try to vary Mike’s thoughts earlier than one other unhealthy resolution ruins his future.

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