Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Rivals (1994)

Armin Shimerman: Quark

Quotes 

• Quark : [Rule of Acquisition #109]  Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.

• Quark : You owe me! You begged me to stay here when you first came on board, and I did - against my better judgment.

  Commander Sisko : I didn't beg, I blackmailed you.

• Quark : The 47th Rule of Acquisition says, "Don't trust a man wearing a better suit than your own." Either you're a con-artist, or you're covering up an empty coin purse. I happen to know it's both.

• [Quark has offered to bail Martus out of prison] 

  Martus Mazur : In return for what?

  Quark : Nothing. Pure generosity.

  Odo : [scoffing]  Ha!

  Martus Mazur : You're enjoying this, aren't you?

  Quark : Oooh - taken in by one of your own victims, and no one to turn to but me? Ha-ha-ha-ha! I can't remember when I've been so entertained!

• [Martus has pinched Rom from Quark's and employed him in his own establishment] 

  Quark : Careful, Martus - he shaves the latinum.

  Rom : I do not! Not much...

• [Martus has ordered a drink in Quark's] 

  Quark : And how do you plan on paying for this? With charm perhaps?

  Martus Mazur : Double or nothing?

  Quark : Double nothing is still nothing.

• Martus Mazur : It seems that overconfidence comes in small packages around here.

  Quark : My track record speaks for itself - just like your security file.

• [Quark is complaining about Martus, who has opened a gambling establishment opposite his bar] 

  Quark : He's a con-artist, a crook!

  Commander Sisko : One more won't make much difference.

• [O'Brien returns from a demoralizing racquetball game with Bashir] 

  Quark : What was the score?

  Chief O'Brien : Who cares?

  Quark : I care. I'm listening. Tell me your problems, all of them.

  Chief O'Brien : I've got no problems a good drop shot wouldn't cure.

  Quark : He beat you.

  Chief O'Brien : Only by half a step, that's all. He's got a few years on me, so what? I, I've got more experience.

  Quark : [to himself]  The aging champion...

  Chief O'Brien : Got spin shots he's never seen.

  Quark : ...versus the daring challenger...

  Chief O'Brien : So I had a few breaks, huh? One more game, that's all I needed.

  Quark : Come one, come all...

  Chief O'Brien : I'd've kicked him all over the court. He knows it too.

  Quark : Welcome to Quark's!

  Chief O'Brien : [irritated]  Thanks!

  Quark : Don't mention it.

• [last lines] 

  [Martus has asked Quark for financial help to get off the station] 

  Quark : All right. I'll *loan* you 500 isiks. You can book passage on a cargo ship.

  Martus Mazur : 1500. After all, I do have expenses.

  Quark : 600.

  Martus Mazur : 1200. I still have my dignity.

  Quark : Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack - Rule of Acquisition number 109.

  Martus Mazur : [reluctantly]  All right... 800.

  Quark : Go on. I'm listening.

• Martus Mazur : [trying to close a deal with Quark]  I'll take one hundred times what you've got here.

  Quark : Not in this space/time continuum, you won't!

• Quark : House always takes blue!

• Quark : Quark's House of Champions.

• [Quark is musing over his new scheme to boost business in his bar - a racquet ball match between Bashir and O'Brien] 

  Quark : 'Challenge of the galaxy'... Match of the Century! *Wonder* of the Wormhole...

  [Quark rolls his dice. The blue side facing up. Quark lifts his fists triumphantly] 

  Quark : [Pleased as Punch]  House *always* takes blue!

  [laughs]