Arrow (season 1) Quotes

Arrow is a television show that first aired in 2012 on The CW. Arrow completed its run in 2013.

Arrow aired for 23 episodes.

The cast includes: Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak, Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson, Paul Blackthorne as Quentin Lance, David Ramsey as John Diggle, and John Barrowman as Malcolm Merlyn.

Arrow Quotes

Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen

• (Stephen Amell) "My name is Oliver Queen. For five years I was stranded on an island with only one goal: survive. Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish; to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city. To do this, I must become someone else. I must become something else."

• (Stephen Amell) "My name is Oliver Queen, after five years in hell, I have come home with only one goal: to save my city. Now others have joined my crusade. To them, I'm Oliver Queen. To the rest of Starling City, I'm someone else. I am something else."

• (Stephen Amell) "My name is Oliver Queen. After 6 years of being a vigilante, the only way to achieve my goal and save my city was to confess to being the Green Arrow. Now my family and friends must carry on my mission without me. I am no longer a hero. I am Inmate 4587."

• (Stephen Amell) "My name is Oliver Queen. After five years on a hellish island, I have come home with only one goal: to save my city. But to do that, I can't be the killer I once was. To honor my friend's memory, I must be someone else. I must be something else."

• (Stephen Amell) "You have failed this city."

• (Ra's al Ghul) "I was 11 years old when I killed my first man. I remember the look in his face when the light went out behind his eyes. Such a sudden change, almost imperceptible, between life and death. And I felt ashamed. I had stolen from that man the most precious gift of all; life. But I also felt something else; pride, because I had taken up arms against someone who sought to do ill against my family. And I realized what I had done was necessary. You see -- I have replaced evil with death. And that -- is what the league exists to do. And I have killed several thousand more men since then. And the world is better for it."
• (Stephen Amell) "You've taken your last life."
• (Ra's al Ghul) "No. You have lived your last day."

• (Stephen Amell) "My name is Oliver Queen. After five years in hell, I returned home with only one goal: to save my city. But my old approach wasn't enough. I had to become someone else. I had to become something else. I had to become the Green Arrow."

Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson

• (Manu Bennett) "I'm going to tear everything he cares about away from him, destroy those who choose to follow him, corrupt those he loves. Once he has lost everyone and everything he values, I will drive an arrow through his eye."

• (Sebastian Blood) "You know who he is under that hood, don't you?"
• (Manu Bennett) "I know exactly who he is. He's my friend."
• (Sebastian Blood) "That's why you don't want him dead."
• (Manu Bennett) "Death would be a release from this life, and his sentence has yet to be carried out."

Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak

• (Emily Bett Rickards) "It feels really good having you inside me -- And by you I mean your voice. And by me I mean my ear. I'm going to stop talking. Right now."
• (Stephen Amell) "That would be my preference."

• (Nyssa al Ghul) "I'm Nyssa, daughter of Ra's al Ghul. Heir to the demon."
• (Emily Bett Rickards) "Felicity Smoak. M.I.T. Class of '09."

John Barrowman as Malcolm Merlyn

• (John Barrowman) "There is nothing you can do to stop what is about to happen. And you shouldn't. This city needs what is about to happen in order to survive. The people who are destroying it from the inside need to be erased from the map."

David Ramsey as John Diggle

• (David Ramsey) "What is this about, Malcolm?"
• (John Barrowman) "Well, this isn't going to be easy for all of you to believe."
• (Emily Bett Rickards) "Because you're a sociopath and a liar."
• (John Barrowman) "Be that as it may --"

Paul Blackthorne as Quentin Lance

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