Episode

Quote

Author

Who Said It

4x01 "Mayhem"
(1 quote)

"Never think that war, no

matter how necessary, nor
how justified, is not a
crime."

Ernest Hemingway

Hotch

4x02 "The Angel Maker"

(2 quotes)

We all die. The goal isn't Chuck Palahniuk

to live forever, the goal is to
create something that will.

Hotch

The past is our definition. Wendell Berry

we may strive, with good
reason, to escape it, or to
escape what is bad in it, but
we will escape it only by
adding something better to
it.

Hotch

"To follow by faith alone is Benjamin Franklin

to follow blindly."

Reid

"Reason is not automatic.

Those who deny it cannot
be conquered by it."

Prentiss

4x03 "Minimal Loss"

(2 quotes)

4x04 "Paradise"
(2 quotes)

4x05 "Catching Out"

(2 quotes)

4x06 "The Instincts"

(2 quotes)

4x07 "Memoriam"
(2 quotes)

Ayn Rand

"A fool's paradise is a wise Thomas Fuller

man's hell."

Hotch

"Things are not always what Phaedrus

they seem; the first
appearance deceives many;
the intelligence of a few
perceives what has been
carefully hidden."

Hotch

"Plenty sit still. Hunger is a Zulu proverb

wanderer."

Prentiss

"Beyond the East the

Gerald Gould
sunrise, beyond the West
the sea, And the East and
West the wander-thirst that
will not let me be."

Prentiss

"Who speaks to the instincts Amos Bronson Alcott

speaks to the deepest in
mankind and finds the
readiest response."

Hotch

"I think the truly natural

things are dreams, which
nature can't touch with
decay."

Reid

Bob Dylan

What was silent in the

Friedrich Nietzsche
father speaks in the son, and
often I found in the son the
unveiled secret of the
father.

Reid

There is no refuge from

Gilbert Parker
memory and remorse in this
world. The spirits of our

Reid

foolish deeds haunt us, with

or without repentance.
4x08 "Masterpiece"
(2 quotes)

4x09 "52 Pickup"

(2 quotes)

4x10 "Brothers in Arms"

(2 quotes)

4x11 "Normal"
(2 quotes)

4x12 "Soul Mates "

(2 quotes)

4x13 "Bloodline"
(2 quotes)

"Let us consider that we are Mark Twain

all insane. It will explain us
to each other; it will
unriddle many riddles..."

Rossi

"Man must evolve for all

human conflict a method
which rejects revenge,
aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a
method is love."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rossi

"The minute people fall in

love, they become liars."

Harlan Ellison

Prentiss

"Cleanliness becomes more P.J. O'Rourke

important when godliness is
unlikely."

Rossi

"We are all brothers under

the skin, and I, for one,
would be willing to skin
humanity to prove it."

Ayn Rand

Morgan

"...for he today who sheds

his blood with me shall be
my brother."

William Shakespeare

Morgan

"Every normal man must be H.L. Mencken

tempted at times to spit on
his hands, hoist the black
flag, and begin to slit
throats."

Hotch

"There's no tragedy in life President Dwight

like the death of a child.
Eisenhower
Things never get back to the
way they were."

Rossi

"No mortal can keep a

secret. If his lips are silent,
he chatters with his
fingertips; betrayal oozes
out of him at every pore."

Reid

Sigmund Freud

"Delay is the deadliest form British Historian C.

of denial."
Northcote Parkinson

Morgan

"There is no doubt that it is Winston Churchill

around the family and the
home that all the greatest
virtues, the most dominating
virtues of human society,
are created, strengthened
and maintained."

Prentiss

"The strength of a family, Mario Puzo

like the strength of an army,
is in its loyalty to each
other."

Hotch

4x14 "Cold Comfort"

(2 quotes)

4x15 "Zoe's Reprise"

(2 quotes)

"And so, all the night-tide, I Edgar Allan Poe (this is

lay down by the side. Of my from his poem, "Annabel
darling, my darling, my life Lee").
and my bride. In the
sepulchre there by the sea.
In her tomb by the sounding
sea."

JJ

"For those who believe, no Stuart Chase

proof is necessary. For those
who don't believe, no proof
is possible."

Rossi

"I never teach my pupils; I Albert Einstein

only attempt to provide the
conditions in which they
can learn."

Rossi

"In youth we learn; in age

we understand."

Rossi

Austrian novelist, Marie

von Ebner-Eschenbach

4x16 "Pleasure is my
Business"
(1 quote)

"The prostitute is not, as

Camille Paglia
feminists claim, the victim
of men, but rather their
conqueror, an outlaw, who
controls the sexual channels
between nature and culture."

Hotch

4x17 "Demonology"
(2 quote)

"He who does not punish

evil, commands it to be
done."

Prentiss

4x18 "Omnivore"
(2 quotes)

4x19 "House On Fire "

(2 quotes)

4x20 "Conflicted"
(2 quotes)

Leonardo Da Vinci

There is no heresy or no
James Joyce
philosophy which is so
abhorrent to the church as a
human being.

Rossi

Fate is not satisfied with

inflicting one calamity.

Roman author Publilius

Syrus

Hotch

Men heap together the

mistakes of their lives, and
create a monster they call
destiny.

John Hobbes

Hotch

"We all live in a house on

fire, no fire department to
call; no way out."

Tennessee Williams

Hotch

"I have loved to the point of Francoise Sagan

madness; That which is
called madness, That which
to me, is the only sensible
way to love."

Hotch

"Light thinks it travels faster Terry Pratchett

than anything but it is
wrong. No matter how fast
light travels, it finds the
darkness has always got
there first, and is waiting for
it."

Reid

"Monsters are real, and

Reid

Stephen King

ghosts are real too. They

live inside us, and
sometimes, they win."
4x21 " A Shade of Gray"
(2 quotes)

4x22 "The Big Wheel"

(2 quotes)

4x23 "Roadkill"
(2 quotes)

4x24 "Amplification"
(2 quotes)

4x25/26 "To Hell...And

Back"
(2 quotes)

"To lose a child is to lose a Dr. Burton Grebin

piece of yourself."

Rossi

"Without a family, man,

Andre Maurois
alone in the world, trembles
with the cold."

Rossi

"In order for the light to

shine so brightly, the
darkness must be present."

Hotch

Francis Bacon

"No matter how dark the

George Chakiris
moment, love and hope are
always possible."

Morgan

I'm not sure about

Booth Tarkington
automobiles. With all their
speed forward they may be
a step backward in
civilization.

Hotch

The human voice can

Mahatma Ghandi
never reach the distance that
is covered by the still small
voice of conscience.

JJ

"It will become fine dust

over all the land of Egypt
and it will become boils
breaking out with sores on
man and beast through all
the land of Egypt."

Exodus 9:9

Reid

"Security is mostly a
superstition. It does not
exist in nature, nor do the
children of men as a whole
experience it."

Helen Keller

Reid

"If there were no hell, we

would be like the animals.
No hell, no dignity."

Flannery O'Connor

Hotch

"Sometimes there are no

words. No clever quotes to
neatly sum up what's
happened that day...
sometimes the day... just...
ends."

Aaron Hotchner (Note: This Hotch

is the first time that a quote
used in the beginning or end
of the episode had one of
the main characters as its
author.)