20 Nurse Ratched Quotes From The Nurse You Never Want
Published January 31, 2023
You will love these Nurse Ratched quotes from the battleaxe herself.
Nurse Ratched is a fictional nurse from the 1975 hit movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” as well as the Netflix prequel series titled “Ratched.”
In the movie, Louise Fletcher played Nurse Ratched, and in the Netflix series, Sarah Paulson plays her.
Nurse Ratched is a cold, manipulative tyrant that did not care about her patient’s well-being or feelings.
Instead, she cared about her patients being quiet and following her strict orders.
Nurse Ratched’s cruelty and demand for quickly and strictly following orders partially stem from her time as an army nurse during WWII.
Nurse Ratched has mostly free rein because her superiors approve of her antipsychotic drugs and manipulation of the patients since she keeps an orderly hospital.
Check out these Nurse Ratched Quotes from the unfriendly nurse.
Nurse Ratched quotes from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Check out these cold-hearted quotes from Nurse Ratched.
1. “Your hand is staining my window.” — Nurse Ratched
2. “Your mother and I are old friends. You know that.” — Nurse Ratched
3. “The best thing we can do is go on with our daily routine.” — Nurse Ratched
4. “So I’d like to keep him on the ward. I think we can help him.” — Nurse Ratched
5. “Those are very challenging observations you made, Randle.” — Nurse Ratched
6. “You know Billy, what worries me is how your mother is going to take this.” — Nurse Ratched
7. “Some men on the ward take a long, long time to get used to the schedule.” — Nurse Ratched
8. “No, Mr. McMurphy. When the meeting was adjourned, the vote was nine to nine.” — Nurse Ratched
9. “You men are in this hospital because of your proven inability to adjust to society.” — Nurse Ratched
10. “If Mr. McMurphy doesn’t want to take his medication orally, I’m sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way.” — Nurse Ratched
Nurse Ratched quotes from the Netflix series
Enjoy these quotes from a younger version of Nurse Ratched.
11. “The car is ready, so follow the plan.” — Nurse Ratched
12. “Do you believe the human mind can be cured?” — Nurse Ratched
13. “I sent a man to do what was clearly a woman’s job.” — Nurse Ratched
14. “I don’t feel quite free from the past the way you might.” — Nurse Ratched
15. “He wasn’t born a monster. Somebody turned him into one.” — Nurse Ratched
16. “Search yourself, and I think you’ll realize it would be wise to do what I ask.” — Nurse Ratched
17. “All I was guilty of was showing these men mercy when no one else would.” — Nurse Ratched
18. “I know how you feel right now; told that you’re made, when that’s what’s driving you mad.” — Nurse Ratched
19. “I believe there are some things that are worse to feel than simply feeling nothing.” — Nurse Ratched
20.“We had a saying in the Core, ‘Save one life, and you’re a hero. Save 100 lives, well then, you’re a nurse.’” — Nurse Ratched
Don’t cross Nurse Ratched
Randle McMurphy tries to bend Nurse Ratched’s rules upon his arrival.
His defiance draws the ire of Nurse Ratched, so she threatens him and gives him mild punishments and eventually even shock therapy!
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