"Bloody hell!"

- Miles O'Brien, upon spotting Q on DS9


"It's got to be Q, another one of his stupid jokes."
"I'm not laughing."

- Miles O'Brien and Benjamin Sisko


"Why don't you do something constructive for a change, like torment Cardassians!"

- Miles O'Brien to Q


"You hit me... Picard never hit me."
"I'm not Picard."
"Indeed not. You're much easier to provoke. How fortunate for me."

- Q and Benjamin Sisko


"Enterprise? Oh yes, weren't you one of the little people?"

- Q to Miles O'Brien, on their last meeting


"An abysmal place, Earth. Oh, don't get me wrong. A thousand years ago it had character: the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, Watergate. Now it's just mind-numbingly dull."

- Q


"These mating rituals you Humans indulge in are really quite disgusting."

- Q


"My God, you're an impertinent waiter!"

- Bashir, to Q after the latter tells him to stay away from Vash while Q is posing as a waiter at the Replimat


"It's over Q! I want you out of my life! You're arrogant, you're overbearing, and you think you know everything!"
"But... I do know everything."
"That makes it even worse."

- Vash and Q


"But it's not going to be the same without you. When I look at a gas nebula, all I see is a cloud of dust, but seeing the universe through your eyes I was able to experience... wonder. I'm going to miss that."

- Q, to Vash

# According to the Deep Space Nine Companion, the scene in which Q is surprised that Sisko has hit him, is a sign of the writers' attempts to differentiate Sisko's character from Jean-Luc Picard. Robert Hewitt Wolfe says of the difference between the two characters "Picard is an explorer, and in some ways, very much an intellectual. Sisko is a builder, a different kind of guy. He wears his heart a little more on his sleeve, and he acts on emotion, on instinct, more than Picard." Furthermore, de Lancie himself points out, "Q's relationship with Picard has always been a battle of wits, but I come into Deep Space Nine, and Sisko just bopped me on the nose! From a character point of view, that's a very big difference."
# Armin Shimerman's line "bid high and bid often" is a reference to a quote attributed to the late Richard J. Daley, "vote early and vote often". (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)