The Best The Wire Quotes

Tommy: What are you?
The: I'm the Wire. And I will gobble you up, pretty boy. Every last morsel.
[the TV image becomes colour]
The: And when I have feasted, I shall regain the corporeal body which my fellow kind denied me.
Bishop: Good Lord! Colour television!

The: Been burning the candle at both ends? You've overextended yourself, missus! You shouldn't have had a crack at poor old Magpie like that!
[the Wire electrocutes the Doctor through the portable TV]
The: Hahahahaha!
The: [immediately fine] Rubber soles! Swear by 'em!

Magpie: You promised me peace!
The: Then peace you shall have.
The: [disintegrates him]

The: Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.

Magpie: What do you think you're doing?
The: I want my friend restored, and I think that's beyond a little backstreet electrician, so tell me, who's really in charge here?
The: Yoo-hoo! I think that must be me.