- Carrie Bradshaw: [regarding Mr. Big] The thing is, I was dying to sleep with him, but isn't delayed gratification the definition of maturity?
- Carrie Bradshaw: [narrating voice over, after having sex on the first date with Mr. Big] I will not be the first one to speak. And if he never calls me again, I'll always think of him fondly, as an asshole.
- Samantha Jones: [someone has drawn a penis on Carrie's Bus Poster] Oh, don't worry, honey! No one notices a bus in New York until it's about to hit them!
- Samantha Jones: A guy could just as easily dump you if you fuck him on the first date as he can if you wait until the tenth.
- Miranda Hobbes: When have you ever been on a tenth date?
- [Before Carrie goes on her first official date with Mr. Big, she's showing the girls what she's wearing]
- Samantha Jones: Hey honey, it's fabulous. Bravo!
- Miranda Hobbes: It's tits on toast, baby. But you make it work.
- Charlotte York: Well, let's just say it. It's the "naked dress". I mean, you're obviously gonna have sex with him tonight.
- Carrie Bradshaw: Come on, it's our first date!
- Miranda Hobbes: She's not gonna have sex. She's just gonna look like sex.
- Carrie Bradshaw: That's right. I'm just the trailer.
- Samantha Jones: Please. If it happens, it happens. Bottoms up!
- Charlotte York: Wait a second! I thought you were serious about this guy, you can't sleep with him on the first date.
- Samantha Jones: Oh, God!
- Miranda Hobbes: Here she goes again with 'The Rules.'
- Samantha Jones: The women who wrote that book, they wrote it because they couldn't get laid. So they constructed this whole bullshit theory to make women who can get laid feel bad.
- Miranda Hobbes: Forget the math, just don't fuck on a first date, you're fine.
- Carrie Bradshaw: Third date.
- Charlotte York: Too soon!
- Samantha Jones: Reality check.
- Charlotte York: And by then at least you're emotionally involved.
- Samantha Jones: Exactly! I mean, isn't it better to find out if the sex is good right off the bat, before anybody's feelings get hurt?
- Miranda Hobbes: True romance cannot exist without good sex.
- Samantha Jones: And yet you can have good sex with someone you don't like or respect... or even remember.
- Miranda Hobbes: [the man Miranda had just met at the gym asked her out] No, it's too quick. I think maybe that kick in his head scrambled his brains.
- Carrie Bradshaw: No, too quick is sleeping with him on the first date. That's too quick.
- Miranda Hobbes: You both got excited, and you went for it. Stop blaming yourself.
- Carrie Bradshaw: No, I don't blame myself. I blame the dress. The dress!
- Samantha Jones: Have I ever had fabulous sex with someone that I didn't want to admit to? Hmm. Did I ever tell you about that jazz musician who lived with his mother in Queens?
- Carrie Bradshaw: Yeah, Alex.
- Samantha Jones: What about the window washer?
- Carrie Bradshaw: The one who doesn't wear any underwear?
- Samantha Jones: I met this gorgerous kid in Spy Bar last year. He was...
- Carrie Bradshaw: He turned out to be in high school.
- [narrating voice over]
- Carrie Bradshaw: Evidently, Samantha had had lots of sex, none of which was secret.
- Samantha Jones: Fine, it just proves that I'm not ashamed of anyone whom I've slept with.
- Samantha Jones: There's no such thing as bad publicity.
- Carrie Bradshaw: Yeah, you would say that, you're a publicist.
- Charlotte York: So we would talk about art, and sex, and the Torah.
- Carrie Bradshaw: Well, why didn't you introduce him to anybody?
- Charlotte York: I was embarrassed! I mean, I couldn't really date him. And he couldn't date me. I mean, what would people think?
- Samantha Jones: Well, if the sex was good, who cares what anybody thinks?
- [voice-over, about Charlotte's secret tryst with a Jewish artist]
- Carrie Bradshaw: It was so sexy, so forbidden: Daddy's little Episcopalian princess in the arms of one of God's chosen People.