Prosecutor princess 2010 quotes

Korean drama Prosecutor princess 2010 quotes

Ep 1 – Because women all dream of being a princess.

She: Who are you? [knocking at a door] / He: You're the one who rang the bell and knocked on the door. [from the inside]

They don't say a life of crime is scary for nothing.

You're not supposed to buy shoes for a woman you like. They say she'll put them on and walk off with another man.

To live with a man who would know what a woman is feeling before she opens her mouth, I just want to know what that would feel like.

Are all titles created equal?

Prosecutors these days get badmouthed at the drop of a dime.

Wherever ten people gather, there will be good, bad and strange folk mixed in. but if a rich man is ruined, he can still survive one way or another for three years. You think that saying is for nothing?

Just because you can spit out words, doesn't mean they're worth saying!

In the constitution, there's a clause about the personnel pursuit of happiness. / We are public servants, representing the country. / In the National Public Service Laws, is there anything about the length of a woman's skirt or standard of makeup? / As a public servant, there is a level of form and dignity we need to maintain. / Is that level specified by law? … Even prosecutors that aren't female get badmouthed when they deserve it.

I'm a prosecutor, not a social worker.

Ep 2 – Are you waiting for me to come out or are you waiting for me to leave?

Don't you think both of these sounds very awkward? What will I do? Get mad at you because you scammed my money? Or be happy because I'm getting my money back?

I've met the person I had met.

Ma Hye Ri: Why should I work overtime? I'm a civil servant. I'm a government worker who works set hours. And working overtime doesn't increase my pay. / Prosecutor Yoon Se Jun: Other people don't have that mindset, that's why they've working overtime. / Ma Hye Ri: That is their own choice. Our country never stated that if you didn't work overtime, you'd get sacked.

Unexpectedly meeting at an unexpected place was funny.

Using money is the best method to get revenge.

In this world there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Crying won't solve anything.

Do you know how important it is to safeguard case files? Didn't you learn about proper security when you were in training?

In choosing this career [prosecutor], there is one thing you must do whether you like it or not, be prudent and cautious … The ultimate destiny of a case differs depending on which prosecutor's hands it's in. Do you know why? Because as a prosecutor, my judgment can turn an innocent person into a criminal, or set a true criminal free. Because of a penalty I inflict, I can make a person into a thief. It means that a person's life is in my hands. People, who hold others' fates in their hands, have no choice but to be prudent and cautious. It's hard enough to figure out the actual truth when you try to listen wholeheartedly and look into what's hidden inside a person and you make a judgment based on someone else's report and opinion?

Ep 3 – It's better to show one more thing to the person who has already seen everything.

You sure aged a lot. It's because minors are impersonating seniors, that's why you're aging so fast.

Well they say 'birds hear during the day and rats and the night' …

A prosecutor who doesn't investigate cases thoroughly, so the documents get carried here and there. I hear they're called 'carrier prosecutors'. / Like people who carry things on their backs? / Exactly. / A prosecutor is a prosecutor, but this is a prosecutor that lets documents get carried from place to place. / But that doesn't sound ... very nice. / Of course it's not nice.

3 I really hate people who have no sense of responsibility.

If you ask me what I think, then you have to do what I say.

Dad, your entire character is rude.

It's a gambling game called Ah-do-sa-kki. It starts with 5 cards. You make 10 or 20 points with 3 cards. The remaining 2 cards determines the winner.

Not anybody can become a prosecutor.

3 Luck is something you get from others.

Ep 4 – If a prosecutor receives help from a lawyer, it could be misconstrued or investigated as an illegal solicitation.

Your skin used to shine like porcelain from the Joseon era.

Mom, why did you marry a man like dad?!

Confessions of love during the middle of the day are really cheesy.

Why does it matter if people look alike when their personality, interests and mannerism are completely different?

Do you think anyone can be a prosecutor's dad?

I've never even seen a seven year old except when I was seven.

Pretending to be close is different from actually being close.

I heard that love is filled with ‘why's’.

I guess there are people you can't love.

I really hate it when a person, who harms others, says she likes me.

Ignoring someone who was victimized. How are you a prosecutor?!

Ep 5 – Prosecutor Yoon Se Jun: Whether it's male or female, I hate it the most when they start to become crazy after drinking alcohol. / Ma Hye Ri: Why do you have so many things that you hate? How can a man be so pretty? … Isn't it very funny? The phrase 'I hate the most' can only be used for things that are really most hated in the world. If not, what are going to do if you really marry a woman who spends the whole day spending money drinking alcohol and becoming drunk crazy? … So you can smile. 

Why do you resist a female like me who's pretty, slim and young and tells you she likes you?

Public opinion sure is scary.

A woman pride's is only needed id there is someone chasing you.

Ep 6 – Everything can change, but the look in one's eyes can't fool anyone.

In my youth, you know, I used to be able to uncover the secret motive and drive the final nail into the coffin of a case. [the Chief Prosecutor]

I always taught to her to show her gratitude to people she was grateful … [a mother about her little daughter]

Only love can heal the heart's wounds … or something like that.

Suffering and injustice feels exactly like that. It can kill an otherwise fine and normal person.

In this world, there are two kinds of women. Slender ones and fat ones. Capable women and incapable women. Women that can be loved by their husbands and those that are ignored. What kind of woman do you want to live as? You can be a woman who has all 3 positive attributes, if you just lose weight. Don't live like your mother. – the mother to Ma Hye Ri

Ma Hye Ri: I decided then. That I would never be looked down upon because of my body. I really worked hard to the point of death. / Prosecutor Yoon Se Jun: That's impressive. / Ma Hye Ri: Excuse me? / Prosecutor Yoon Se Jun: You valued yourself, tried hard and got back up. You're amazing. So what's there to be ashamed of? / Ma Hye Ri: What was it you said before? / Prosecutor Yoon Se Jun: How others look at you, that sort of crap, feed that to the what? / Ma Hye Ri: The dogs. / Prosecutor Yoon Se Jun: Right, feed it to the dogs.

Being one step too late is not really so great.

They joke that a husband laughs in the backroom when his wife dies.

What daughter of a respectable family leaves her parents' house before she gets married?

It's the weekend, so what are you doing? / That's usually a question one asks before suggesting to meet.

If I move out without my parents approval, that's running away, not independence.

Think of a way to change my father's mind. From a man's viewpoint.

Seo In Woo: Why do you like Yoon Se Jun? / Ma Hye Ri: Because he's magnificent. You know, like a large tree that doesn't sway.  Mm, and he has a lot of shade. He's like that kind of tree, Yoon Sunbae.

Ep 7 – Seo In Woo: You think I still have a crush on you? Or you want me to develop a crush?

I'm not interested in women who move because of other men. That's why I said I'll be your friend.

To say it was an evil plot seems a little farfetched.

Seo In Woo: I think my calling in life is taking care of you.

A woman's hair gets the reaction.

I wish there was a litmus test to read people's hearts.

You're a prosecutor. Why are you whining like an 18 year old girl? A postmortem investigation is one of a prosecutor's many tasks. Do you think you can be a prosecutor without examining corpses?

This is a prosecutor's tradition. On my first postmortem exam, I ate intestine soup.

Do you know why prosecutors do autopsy exams? In case there's something the deceased need to say, you have to speak on their behalf. / A prosecutor is not a psychic. How can they speak for the deceased? A dead person is silent. / Since the dead can't speak, if there's something unresolved, you have to say it for them.

They even say that the dead will speak with their body.

I really despise women who steal other women's men but ... I wish you would have told me earlier, then I wouldn't have let my feelings develop.

Me - getting in the middle of that seems really low.

You can't take a wheel off when it's spinning.

I almost forgot to tell you. On your first autopsy exam, there's a curse that if you go home before midnight, the ghost will follow you. You can believe it or not. But, if you show that ghost your house, they'll live with you forever.

What I fear the most, after your father, are ghosts. – the mother of Ma Hye Ri

Why do you make a person have no sense of shame?

Ma Hye Ri: Well, actually, I went to a postmortem examination today. But Jin sunbae said if I went home before midnight, the deceased's spirit would follow me home. So I couldn't go home and I was killing time. It's not that I believe in those things, but if they come into your house, they'll stay with you forever. / Seo In Woo: Dummy, ghosts come out after midnight. If you came home before midnight, they wouldn't have known where you lived. It probably followed you.

Ma Hye Ri: Geez, I thought I was going to die when we weren't allotted any, but now I think I'm going to die because of all the allotments.

Ma Hye Ri: Do you know what kind of emotional damage words can inflict? I know from experience. It can even kill a person.

You have to let go of the past for the future to come.

Ma Hye Ri: How can a guy's place have all this? / Seo In Woo: How can a girl's house not have anything?

Seo In Woo: There's nothing that moves a person like good food.

Ma Hye Ri: How can a man be so good at cooking? / Seo In Woo: When you live on your own, your cooking automatically improves. / I think ... I really ... appreciate this. / Not 'I think', but 'I appreciate this'.

I'm just saying I never cooked for a man I liked.

Mommy said that even if I lied, as long as I confess before the day is over, it's okay right? – the daughter of Yoon Se Jun

Not saying is the same as lying, right? – the daughter of Yoon Se Jun

Ma Hye Ri: I now understand suffering for love. .. Words are quite strange. What my brain hears and what my heart hears are very different. Seo In Woo: After waiting four hours for a man, you finally understand 'suffering for love'? … So the person who stood you up, can taste the food you made for him?

Ep 9 – There are a lot of unanswerable events happening in the world. As well as events that shouldn't happen.

How can people take their own cars on a date?

Yoon Jung No = street to view cherry blossoms in spring

Every child is a different face of the parent. They only appear different.

The beginning is half the battle.

The mother of Ma Hye Ri: Hye Ri, why do you like Mr. Seo? What is it about him him you like? / Ma Hye Ri: He's like Superman, Mom. He comes running when I'm in trouble and helps me. Whenever I need him, he's there. From the very first time I met him, he was like that. It's amazing. … He knows I talk big and am full of myself, so he's fun and makes me feel comfortable. … He's a good person.

Ep 11 – The cause between human beings is even longer that one imagines.

Seo In Woo: You say you are scared of your father, but you don't hate him. / Ma Hye Ri: Although there are times I complain about being unhappy with him, but that's not hate. Lawyer Seo, have you hated your father before? / Seo In Woo: Never. Not even a fleeting moment of disgust. … He used to be a father that would definitely keep his promises. Don't parents usually say "Okay", "I understand", "I'll do it", "Let's do it"? But those are only words. "I'll get it for you later", "Did I say that?", "I'm busy now", don't they all say that? But my dad was different. Not even once had he said those, even if it was for a very small matter. He would say "I promise", and he would really do it for me. / Ma Hye Ri: He is really a great man. / Seo In Woo: So the words that my father said before ... Were all once ... Promises. / Ma Hye Ri: Were once promises? Why do you use past tense? He doesn't keep his promises now? / Seo In Woo: It is me who is unable to keep them. Not yet.

I do not need a husband who cannot even protect my daughter's happiness. – the mother of Ma Hye Ri

The things in this world cannot be expected to go according to my will. – the father of Ma Hye Ri

Luck is something that needs others to help you wish for.

the mother and of Ma Hye Ri: You are especially handsome today. / Does it look good? / Of course it looks good. A capable man would definitely wear it well. / I have to appear to have depth and be an exemplary model.

Although I am very poor, I am also a person with emotions.

Ma Hye Ri to Seo In Woo: Although it's not very creative, but my attention span, memory and imitation skills are very strong. My Mom said that I should not allow others to keep taking care of me.

We're all human, but yet we have to decide the fate of another. It does put a burden on one's self. [the prosecutors]

Ma Hye Ri: My short-term memory for important information is still quite strong.

Money can always be earned back.

Choosing not to say you like him, is that still considered love? / I did not say it, as I was worried it would make him feel awkward. And I was also scared of rejection, so I did not dare say it. / If you really like him, you would be unable to say it out easily.

Everyone has their own way of loving someone.

I didn't know that females like

Did Prosecutor Ma do something wrong again? Is that why Prosecutor Jin is scolding her now? / It was wrong. She really did something wrong. She snatched away something that someone painstakingly took care of, and yet pretended nothing happened.

Love and sauce are the same. It gets more fragrant with time.

So I do not envy those single, unattached people. Everyday thinking about 'to catch' or 'be caught'. It's an exhausting process. / But marriage is still about honor. // I hate being single. I really hate it.

Do you have the confidence to not run away and take responsibility for others?

Lawyer Seo In Woo's private matters cannot be randomly told to anyone.

Ep 12 – I never knew this before, to live with nothing special happening, that's a very good thing.

To make our Hye Ri so mature, it must have taken lots of difficult experiences. This child used to be so naive and so pure.

Ma Hye Ri to her mother about Seo In Woo: I liked him but, I didn't know I liked him so much.

Birthday presents are to be given at the party, right?

How can you apologize and congratulate at the same time?

Ma Hye Ri: I just found out, to like and to fall for someone are two different things.

Yoon Se Jun to Ma Hye Ri: Anyone looking at you will think you've gone crazy, mumbling to yourself like that. / Sunbae, it's because you're too handsome as you walked over. / You wanted to see me to tell me I'm very handsome? / No. / Then? / I ...  those I like and those I dislike, I'm someone who makes things very definite and clear. / Definite and clear are similar adjectives. /

Ma Hye Ri to Seo In Woo: Can you just clean up your attachments to people as though you were sweeping them up with a broom? / Seo In Woo to Ma Hye Ri: The world is not as simple as you think. There aren't only the simple things your mind is capable of imagining. / However, none of that changes anything.

Then you will remember ... we still don't trust you completely. / Ma Hye Ri: It'd be a burden if you did trust me. … / Have you exchanged your brain for a designer bag?

Someone with your flamboyant style has no bite. Don't lose your faith to love and do something stupid. Once it passes, it's all suffering.

In this world, there are two kinds of people: people observant, who know what to do, and people who, until asked, don't say anything.

Honey, you are exactly the same as Shim Chung's father who sold his daughter for 300 sacks of rice.

When you live in the same neighborhood, you get to know each other well.

Good family background, strong personal abilities, family assets and even money, I picked someone specially who has all of that.

the father to Ma Hye Ri: Children ...  to love them, or not to love them, as parents there's no choice. You just end up loving the child, no matter what. That's why parents suffer. And I hate the suffering more than anything, too. … Doing something bad is defined differently by each person. Especially to a man.

Ma Hye Ri to Seo In Woo: I'm having a very, very difficult time. And when I'm hungry, it's even more difficult. Can you help me eat dinner?

Even when it seems the sky is dark, the sun always comes out.

Ep 13 – Seo In Woo to Ma Hye Ri: You're someone who doesn't see anything once you start something, and you'll only be satisfied after you finish.

Ma Hye Ri's parents about her: If something is wrong with her at this age, it can only be a man.

A woman knows a woman best, and a man knows a man best.

Prosecutor Yoon Se Jun: Because I'm someone who has a lot to be sorry for towards my wife, I never dreamed of approaching another person first. / Approaching someone first is not easy.

Prosecutor Yoon Se Jun: Prosecutor Ma is someone who helped me understand that we weren't real to each other but we were just passing our time. And through that I was able to see what was real.

to Ma Hye Ri: Prosecutor, I don't know who your parents are, but do they know that you're acting like this? If they raised you so well, you should think about them too! Why are you wandering around like this!

From all the Korean phrases, there is a good one: "Put yourself in my shoes."

Ma Hye Ri to Seo In Woo: My mom said I should never be in someone else's debt, so as thanks, let's have a cup of tea.

Ma Hye Ri to Seo In Woo: Did you study how to move people or did you read a book on 100 ways to treat a woman well? … It must have been hard to pretend to like me when you didn't.

Ma Hye Ri: What do you want from me? / Seo In Woo: To clear my father's name. Even though he wasn't a murderer, he died as one.

Seo In Woo: If someone starts knowing he'll be sorry, he's not sorry at all.

Without evidence you can't make someone guilty.

People all lie because they have no other choice.

Seo In Woo to Ma Hye Ri: I hope you meet someone who loves you, someone who loves you so much that he'll make you forget the pain I gave you and be happy, so I'll be less sorry.

Ep 14 – I don't think we have the sort of relationship where I'll meet you whenever you want.

Isn't "Good Morning" something you say when you haven't seen each other in a while?

Don't you know the benefit of being in civil service? Even if you're absent without notice, it's hard to be fired.

He said that a single, living alone, feels pretty sad when he or she's sick.

You can't let a child die because of an incompetent father.

the father to the mother of Ma Hye Ri: You said that there's not much to life, didn't you? You said that all you need is food in your belly, a warm back and what else was it? / Feeling at peace. ... I'm not saying I liked being poor, I'm just saying I felt at peace.

I'm just saying your character determines your destiny.

Ma Hye Ri's father: I don't want to be a father who drives a stake into his daughter's heart and ruins her life.

Seo In Woo to Ma Hye Ri's father: The figure you want to be for your daughter, I'm sure my father wanted to be the same for his son.

Ma Hye Ri: Everyone says that we [prosecutors] are people who pursue justice. But if the truth is frightening, what should we do? If this truth is a type of harm for me and my family what would the other prosecutors do? / Your question leads one to ponder, but the answer is very simple. Solution: None. That's because every prosecutor's thinking and values are different. Leave it to one's personal choices.

It's not easy to find someone with whom you can be together. / A person who has hurt you must be forgotten unconditionally. Take this chance that everything is about to become memories and make a clean break. / Even though he has caused me pain, but can all this become memories? / When the wounds have healed, everything will become blurry. In the end, even the scars will have disappeared.

Seo In Woo to Ma Hye Ri: Give your mind a holiday once in a while. We'll go out of control for one day.

Ma Hye Ri: Can't we take one picture together? / Seo In Woo: Of course not. / Ma Hye Ri: Why not? / Seo In Woo: I don't take pictures with women casually. We're not lovers, and won't become lovers. We're not friends, and not relatives. We're nothing to each other. Isn't that right? / Ma Hye Ri: If you're a lawyer, then act like a lawyer and make yourself clear. Casually and nothing to each other. Do they mean the same thing? Then explain what is different about the two. / Seo In Woo: Your occupational habit of asking endless questions is occurring again. You have to be careful about this. Men dislike this the most. The way women ask questions endlessly. / Ma Hye Ri: Women also dislike men such as Lawyer Seo. Always needing to have your say. Acting all cool and distant. Butting in with your words when the woman hasn't finished speaking and ... And ... there should be more. / Seo In Woo: There's more? / Ma Hye Ri: There's a lot more. So much more that it's scary. / Seo In Woo: So why are you still liking a guy like this?

Seo In Woo to Ma Hye Ri (cameo): My mind, eyes and heart, are filled with all your expressions.

Seo In Woo to Ma Hye Ri: It seems that all the parents in this world are the same.

Ma Hye Ri's mother to Seo In Woo: A near neighbor is better than a distant relative. If one is too concerned about saving face, he is bound to suffer disadvantages.

Ma Hye Ri's mother to Seo In Woo: It's my first time to hear a guy call me 'Mother'.

I really don't know why both mother and daughter are so simple and naive to allow themselves to be affected by you. – to Seo In Woo

Ep 15 – There are two kinds of people who demand illegal compensation: Those who use the uncooperative re-locators as a screen out front, on the quiet taking money from the construction firms for himself, and the other kind...lunatics.

Ma Hye Ri to his father: It wasn't a homicide, it was crime of violence and it was a mistake.

the father to Ma Hye Ri: I don't want you to see me at my ugliest.

the father to Ma Hye Ri's mother: With your build, you'd still faint when you're in shock?

the Hye Ri's mother about Seo In Woo: A man who's gentle like the wind in Spring, can very well turn out to be a playboy, I almost forgot.

the mother to Ma Hye Ri: Family is everything, a daughter who doesn't help her dad, you call that a daughter?

Seo In Woo to Ma Hye Ri: Just because I wanted to clear my father's name, it doesn't mean I should wrong a good man.

 Seo In Woo's lawyer girlfriend to him: Your feelings for Ma Hye Ri, exceeds the grievances your father had to bear? I already asked my father. / Seo In Woo: Father would surely not want to see me live unhappily. Nobody wishes for the one they love to face misfortune. Then my heart will ache too… If I'm the one to send Hye Ri's father to court, if I'm the one to force Hye Ri to resign as a prosecutor, if I'm the one to destroy everything in her life, and I leave, then the rest of my life, I'm not sure I can live properly.

Ep 16 – Seo In Woo's lawyer girlfriend to him: A promise isn't just pinky swearing with each other.

Seo In Woo's lawyer girlfriend to him: They say life is really a fight against variables.

Let's part without tears. / There's no such thing as that; all separations hurt. / If you're sad about parting, you can't be a prosecutor. You switch offices every two years.

The thing about singles is that we hear about it whenever you take sides.

It's no fun to do the same thing as everyone else. Just like a puzzle, let's live like that.

Discrimination is a crime.

the mother to Ma Hye Ri: Customer - whose beauty is your charm, there's no such thing as zero calories…. Customer whose double lids are amazing, it's the technique of novelty. It's my motto you should be happy when you eat. You're going to eat it anyway, so it's to not say 'Oh, I'm going to get fat'… President Ma Sang Tae, don't knead the dough with your wrist, but put rhythm into your body and do it… Getting good at something, comes with time?

You used to be able to buy whatever you wanted, but now you can't; it's frustrating, right?

'Humans can adapt to anything!' Ma Sang Tae

Ma Hye Ri about Seo In Woo: He's not someone I can or can't forget about.

Seo In Woo to Ma Hye Ri: Why don't you stop, Prosecutor Ma Hye Ri? I don't have any plans of knowing you or spending time with you.

Ma Hye Ri to Seo In Woo: I want to know you again and spend time with you. You'll see me again. We've already seen each other many times, so if we need to see each other, let's live that way. I won't say that you're responsible for my future, so stop giving everything up.

the father to the mother to Ma Hye Ri: Humans can adapt to anything!

Ma Hye Ri's father to Seo In Woo: I never apologized… I said I was sorry, but I couldn't say I was wrong.

Ma Hye Ri to Seo In Woo: I told you, I may lack originality, but my memory is amazing.