"*to Shinpachi* Was your sister raised by…" — Gintoki Sakata Quote

"Do you really intend to lose even more of your friends for something like that? I'll pass on that. As long as I'm alive, I'll live by my own rules. I'll live as I see fit and protect that which I hold dear."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"In this country, we don't call someone who can stop a scooter with her bare hands a girl. We call her a mountain gorilla."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"Sake sure is nice. You can forget your troubles if only for a moment. You'll have to remember them tomorrow though, and they'll be even more painful than they were the night before. You can't run away from things like this. Especially from things you really want to forget."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"Nobody can take anybody's place. There isn't a person in this world that could take your place. It doesn't matter if you were based on me or have the same face."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"Oi, oi. Why do you have red eyes? Have you been playing Tetris all night?"

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"You STILL don't get it? When you tossed all of that away, a few important things were discarded as well. You abandoned your friends? More like you were afraid of BEING abandoned. You fight by yourself? More like you hid yourself in solitude from the beginning. You abandoned yourself? No... You just couldn't bear the pain of having a heavy load place upon you, or being a heavy load, so you ran. Like the coward you are. If you want to live your life abandoning one thing after another, that's your choice. But to try to incite your student to join you because you can't handle being alone, makes you a fool."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama