2. It’s The Most Quotable Show On TV
The dialogue in House of Cards is some of the best on television, but when Frank turns his attention to the audience and breaks the fourth wall, you know you’re in for a memorable and extremely quotable piece of wisdom. Below are just a few of our favourites, and season two is packed full of just as many!
“There are two kinds of pain. The sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain. The sort of pain that’s only suffering. I have no patience for useless things.”
“I never make such big decisions so long after sunset and so far from dawn.”
“There is no solace above or below. Only us – small, solitary, striving, battling one another. I pray to myself, for myself.”
“A great man once said, everything is about sex. Except sex. Sex is about power.”
“What a martyr craves more than anything is a sword to fall on. So, you sharpen the blade, hold it at just the right angle, and then…3,2,1…”
