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Bashir: You know, some people say that you remained on Deep Space Nine as the eyes and ears of your fellow Cardassians.
Garak, astonished: You don't say! Doctor, you're not intimating that I'm some sort of spy, are you?
Bashir: I wouldn't know, sir.
Garak: Ah. An open mind. The essence of intellect.
Past Prologue
Bashir: You're very kind, Mr Garak.
Garak: Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak.
Past Prologue
Garak: I am no more a spy than you are...
Bashir: ...a doctor.
Cardassians
Garak: I believe in coincidence. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences.
Cardassians
Garak: Doctor, did anyone ever tell you that you are an infuriating pest?
Bashir: Chief O'Brien, all the time, and I don't pay any attention to him, either.
The Wire
Garak: Do you think that because we have lunch together once a week, you know me? You can't even begin to fathom what I'm capable of.
Bashir: I'm a doctor. You're my patient. That's all I need to know.
Garak: Wrong again. You need to know who you're trying to save.
The Wire
Bashir: So of the stories you told me, which ones were true?
Garak: My dear doctor, all of them were true.
Bashir: What about the lies?
Garak: Especially the lies.
The Wire
Garak: Major, I don't think I've ever seen you looking so ravishing.
Second Skin
Garak, on a clearance code he wasn't supposed to know: Oh, it's just something I overheard while hemming someone's trousers.
Second Skin
Bashir: Well, I guess this means the end of our Starfleet careers.
Garak: Well, I wouldn't worry about that, Doctor.
Dax: That's easy for you to say.
Garak: Oh, you misunderstand me, Lieutenant. All I meant was, it's a little foolish to worry about your careers at a time like this, when there's a good chance we're all about to be killed.
The Search
Bashir: Assuming you're not a spy.
Garak: Assuming.
Bashir: Then maybe you're an outcast.
Garak: Or maybe I'm an outcast spy.
Bashir: How could you be both?
Garak: I never said I was either.
Profit and Loss
(Bashir tells the story of the boy who cried "Wolf")
Bashir: If you lie all the time, no one is going to believe you, even when you're telling the truth.
Garak: Are you sure that's the point, Doctor?
Bashir: Of course. What else would it be?
Garak: That you should never tell the same lie twice.
Improbable Cause
Garak: The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination.
Improbable Cause
Garak: The fault, dear Tain, is not in our stars but in ourselves.
The Die is Cast
Bashir: They broke seven of your transverse ribs and fractured your clavicle!
Garak: Ah, but I got off several cutting remarks which no doubt did serious damage to their egos.
Way of the Warrior
Bashir: Still the man of mystery.
Garak: Oh, you wouldn't have me any other way.
Distant Voices
Garak: To think, after all this time, all our lunches together
you still don't trust me. There's hope for you yet, doctor.
Distant Voices
Garak's impression of Bashir's Bond lifestyle: I think I joined the wrong intelligence service.
Our Man Bashir
Garak: I must say, Major Kira's certainly throwing herself into the role.
Our Man Bashir
Bashir to Dr Honey ("Dax"): What a waste... no one can see what a beautiful woman you are.
Garak: Is that your plan?
Our Man Bashir
Garak, as Dr Honey kisses Bashir: I'd give you both some privacy if I could.
Our Man Bashir
Garak: Kiss the girl, get the key! They never taught me that in the Obsidian Order!
Our Man Bashir
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Sisko: I thought the Bajorans bent over backwards to be polite to you, Garak.
Garak: Giving me a nametag that read "Elim Garak, former Cardassian oppressor" was hardly polite.
Things Past
Garak: I'd like to get my hands on that fellow Earl Gray and tell him a thing or two about tea leaves.
In Purgatory's Shadow
Garak: It's a full life, if a trifle banal.
In Purgatory's Shadow
Worf, referring to Garak: At the first sign of betrayal I will kill him, but I promise to return the body intact.
Sisko: I assume that's a joke.
Worf: We will see.
In Purgatory's Shadow
Garak to a Jem'Hadar: Ah, are we glad to see you! Could you point us in the direction of the wormhole?
In Purgatory's Shadow
Garak: A verse about the Cardassian who panicked in the face of danger would ruin General Martok's song.
By Inferno's Light
Odo: You'd shoot a man in the back?
Garak: It's the safest way, isn't it?
Call to Arms
Garak: Let me tell you a story. I once knew a Cardassian, a dashing, handsome young man, with a promising career, but one day, through no fault of his own, he found himself exiled and alone with nowhere to turn. But did he give up? No. He struck upon a brilliant plan. Instead of fleeing for the rest of his life, he sought shelter in the one place no one expected him to go: in the stronghold of one of his people's most hated enemies. There, against all odds, against the merciless logic of the universe itself, he thrived.
Ziyal: By becoming the greatest tailor in the galaxy!
Garak: And the moral of the story, my dear, is to never underestimate my gift for survival.
Call to Arms
Worf: They are not interrogating you, Mr Garak. They are debriefing. There is a difference.
Garak: Not from where I'm sitting.
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