Best Quotes from "Queenmaker" Netflix: Living for Coolness Makes You Hollow

I loved "Queenmaker." It was such a gripping drama. Hwang Do Hee’s character was amazing. Kim Hee Ae deserves the Daesang Award for her performance here. I’m rooting for her! 

If you live your life only doing what looks cool, you end up an empty shell. (Oh Kyung Sook)

Giving your heart can be more cruel than the physical act of sex. (Hwang Do Hee)

When overdone, body language will ruin a good speech. Stay composed. Be calm and polite. That makes you look impenetrable. (Hwang Do Hee)

That greed will turn you into a snake. A monstrous beast that bites off its own tail to survive. (Hwang Do Hee)

Like a lion that does not flinch at loud noises, like a wind that cannot be trapped by a net, like a lotus flower that’s never tainted even in the mud, I will overcome greed and hatred, and I’ll continue to fearlessly walk my path like the horn of a rhinoceros. (Oh Kyung Sook)

Do you think everything will end if you just quit? (Cha Sun)

The world won’t end just because we press pause on it. (Oh Kyung Sook)

My method is to repay a blow by hitting back twice as hard. (Hwang Do Hee)

Justice without power is useless, and power without justice is mere violence. (Oh Kyung Sook)

What’s even scarier than violence itself is being tamed to accept that violence. (Oh Kyung Sook)

It’s good to learn things. But there are lines that should never be crossed. And the moment you cross one, you lose your humanity forever. (Carl Yoon)

A fantasy, is just that, a fantasy. A politician who chases impossible ideals is just a hypocrite. (Ma Joong Seok)

You can't save someone's life and then abandon them. It doesn't work that way. (Hwang Do Hee)

Truth doesn’t bend or break, no matter how much pressure is applied to it from outside. (Oh Kyung Sook)