If you love to “smell snow” or find yourself uttering, “Oy with the poodles already,” you’ll love this collection of the best Gilmore Girls quotes from the iconic 2000s WB/CW network TV show.
For several years, I’ve hosted the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge in which we read from the Gilmore Girls book list. Here, you’ll find fast talking and witty banter on everything from mother-daughter relationships to coffee addiction, friendship, dreams and ambition, and so much more. They’re the best reasons to watch Gilmore Girls and travel virtually to Stars Hollow, so let’s dive in!
Best Gilmore Girls Quotes: Vote For the Most Iconic Line
About Coffee, Especially From Luke’s Diner
“Coffee, please, and a shot of cynicism.” – Lorelai
“I need coffee in an IV.” – Lorelai
“I need caffeine. Whatever form you’ve got it. I haven’t had any all day. I’ll drink it, shoot it, eat it, snort it, whatever form it’s in, gimme.” – Lorelai
“You like coffee?” “Only with my oxygen.” – Lorelai
“I’m going to have to quit drinking coffee! And I love coffee — I really love coffee!” – Rory
“I will say anything for a cup of coffee.” – Lorelai
“Nothing says coffee like six in the morning!” – Lorelai
“Oh, I can’t stop drinking the coffee. I stop drinking the coffee, and I stop doing the standing, walking, and words putting into sentence doing.” – Lorelai
“If it was physically possible to make love to a hot beverage, this would be the one.” – Lorelai
About Books and Reading: Chilton, Yale, and Beyond
“I live in two worlds. One is a world of books.” – Rory (from Rory Gilmore’s Chilton valedictorian speech)
“I just take a book with me everywhere. It’s just habit.” – Rory
“Oh, do you see the books? Feel it. Feels good, right? Now smell it. Nothing, nothing smells like that.” – Rory
“You’re a book tease.” – Jess Mariano
“I can’t believe we get to sit around and talk about books and get graded.” – Rory
“I’m here because I enjoy books, and because I read books.” – Rory
“My books look sad. Can books look sad?” – Rory
“We could go to a bookstore, I’ll watch you browse for six or seven hours.” – Dean Forester
“[The party] gave me a chance to catch up on my reading.” – Rory
“I woke up this morning and I realized that I have studied and taught the great literature all my life, and those stories are replete with characters that let opportunities slip by. But what I teach is more than just literature– it’s lessons in life. And if I don’t follow the tenets of those lessons, I’m not the man I thought I was, the man I want to be.” – Max Medina
“She’s reading again– how novel.” – Tristan
About Love and Life in Stars Hollow
“Because I love you, you idiot!” – Rory
“I’m afraid once your heart is involved, it all comes out in moron.” – Lorelai
“Lorelei, this thing we’re doing here, me, you. I just wanted you to know I’m in, I am all in.” – Luke Danes
“Relationships need verbs.” – Lorelai
“But marriage is not about always being happy. It’s about compromise.” – Emily Gilmore
“It’s all any of us wants, to find a nice person to hang out with ‘til we drop dead.” – Lorelai
“Every relationship is just a big honking leap of faith.” – Rory
“Yes, I left behind a glass slipper and a business card … just in case the prince is really dumb.” – Lorelai
About Fall: Gilmore Girls Season
“Breathe in deep, folks. Smells like Fall.” – Taylor Doose
“It’s just my favorite time of year. The whole world changes color.” – Lorelei
“I … am an Autumn.” – Richard Gilmore
“It’s not too much food. This is what we’ve been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny. This is our finest hour.” – Lorelai
Funny Lorelai Gilmore Quotes
“I smell snow.”
“Everything’s magical when it snows.”
“Oy, with the poodles already!”
“And if eating cake is wrong, I don’t want to be right.”
“We’re almost there and nowhere near it. All that matters is that we’re going!”
“Life’s short. Talk fast.”
“I don’t like Mondays, but unfortunately, they come around eventually.”
“Well, you know my babbling capabilities are infinite.”
“I can be flexible, as long as everything is exactly the way I want it.”
“I hate when I’m an idiot and don’t know it. I like being aware of my idiocy.”
“I’m not broken. Maybe just a little chipped.”
“I’m fine. I’m just being dramatic. It’s what I do.”
Short Rory Gilmore Quotes
“You jump, I jump, Jack.”
“You’ve got such a great brain!”
“Mom, you’ve given me everything I need.”
“I cannot do this alone. I need my mommy and I don’t care who knows it.”
“I can go from zero to studying in less than 60 seconds!”
“A little nervous breakdown can work wonders for a girl.”
Frequently Asked Question
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life ends with 4 words. Rory: “Mom?” Lorelai: “Yeah?” Rory: “I’m pregnant.”
Related Gilmore Girls Posts
If you loved this post about the best Gilmore Girls quotes, you will love these posts:
- Gilmore Girls Gift Guide
- Rory Gilmore Chilton Costume
- Gilmore Girls Food Ideas
- Best Gilmore Girls Music
- Gilmore Girls Desktop Wallpaper
Follow my Gilmore Girls reading challenge @TheRoryGilmoreBookClub on Instagram.
