Boardwalk Empire/Quotes

Nucky Thompson: First rule of politics, kiddo: Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Mickey Doyle: Enough with the bohunk cracks. My name's Doyle now.

Nucky Thompson: What?

Mickey Doyle: I changed it. I'm not Mickey Kuzick no more. (...)

Nucky Thompson: "A rose by any other name..."

Mickey Doyle: What's that supposed to mean?

Nucky Thompson: Read a fucking book.

Jimmy Darmody: What the fuck was that?
Al Capone (in a worried, almost childish tone): The fucking deeeers!!

Jimmy Darmody: Nucky, all I want is an opportunity.
Nucky Thompson: This is America, ain't it? Who the fuck's stopping you?

Jimmy Darmody: You can't be half a gangster, Nucky. Not anymore.

Lucy Danziger: "Screaming?" WE WERE FUCKING, GODDAMIT!

Al Capone: I'm making a statement.

Arnold Rothstein: There was a man once... I don't recall his name... frequented the billiard parlors downtown. He made a comfortable living wagering whether he could swallow certain objects, billiard balls being a specialty. He'd pick a ball, take it down his gullet to here, then regurgitate it back up. And one evening I decided to challenge this man to a wager... 10,000 in cash for him to do the trick with a billiard ball of my choosing. Now he knew I'd seen him do this a dozen times, so I can only surmise that he thought I was stupid. We laid down the cash and I handed him the cue ball. He swallowed it down. It lodged in his throat and he choked to death on the spot. What I knew and he didn't was that the cue ball is 1/16th of an inch larger than the other balls... just too large to swallow. Do you know what the moral of this tale is, Mr. Yale?
Frankie Yale: Don't eat a cue ball?

Arnold Rothstein: The moral of this story is that if I'd cause a stranger to choke to death for my own amusement, what do you think I'll do to you if you don't tell me who ordered you to kill Colosimo?

Nucky Thompson: Wanna be a gangster, kid? Go be a gangster. But if you want to be a gangster in my town, then you'll pay me for the privilege.

Chalky White (to his all black henchmen): Let's go. Open it up. I'ma do a bottle count as soon as we're done. And for every drop goes missing, I'ma take a drop of blood out of one of y'all asses.
Nucky Thompson: Simon Legree.

Chalky White: I don't give a fuck they agree or not.

Agent Sebso: We just broke about 12 laws!
Nelson Van Alden: Down here? What laws?

(after a witness talks back in Yiddish)

Nelson Van Alden: What'd he say?

Mrs. Fishbaum: I can't.

Nelson Van Alden: Mrs. Fishbaum, word for word. This is a federal investigation.

Mrs. Fishbaum: He said you should fuck your grandmother... with your faggot penis.

Agent Sebso: Little faggot penis at that.

Gillian Darmody: I thought you could do anything.
Nucky Thompson: I'm not God.
Gillian Darmody: And you tell me now.

Chalky White: 'tis here ma daddy tools.
KKK leader: What are you going to do with them?
Chalky White: Well... I ain't buildin' no bookcase.

Margaret Schroeder: Maybe your cunny isn't the draw you think it is.

Margaret Schroeder: Is he nice to you, Mr. Kessler?
Eddie Kessler: Nucky? Yes, he is nice. Mr. Thompson is a very nice man.
Nucky Thompson: [to Luciano] You trying to sass me, you greasy cocksucker?

Jimmy Darmody: I think you'd agree that Greek Town belongs to us now. ( *Shoots Sheridan in the head*)

Isabelle Jeunet: I thought you could be helpful.
Lucy Danziger: Oh, she is. Aren't you, Mrs McDougal?
Margaret Schroeder: Schroeder.
Lucy Danziger: Is that Irish for "bitch"?

Arnold Rothstein: You know what the nice thing about the Bronx Zoo is, Charlie? There are bars between you and the monkeys.

Lucien D'Alessio: Oh! Oh, fucking tough guy! Are you going to kill me for mouthing off?

Jimmy Darmody: Well, I wasn't going to... but you kinda talked me into it.

Nucky Thompson: We all have to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with.

Bill Fallon: It's speculation, innuendo, and, if I remember my law school Latin, a steaming pile of horseshit.
Arnold Rothstein: Is that the legal term?

Richard Harrow: Sometimes I forget what I look like. Then I pass a mirror and I remember. I stare sometimes at my face and I can't recall who I was before.

Nelson Van Alden: Do you wish to appear in this spectacle?
(Lucy mumbles)
Nelson Van Alden: Please speak up.
Lucy Danziger: Yes! I wish to appear!
Nelson Van Alden: Well, that can't be, because you are carrying a child which is a contract with the Lord and also an economic agreement between us.

Arnold Rothstein: I’ve made my living, Mr. Thompson, in large part as a gambler. Some days I make twenty bets, some days I make none. There are weeks, sometimes months in fact, when I don't make a bet at all, because there is simply no play. So I wait. Plan. Marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all.

Nelson Van Alden: I brought lemons.

Jimmy Darmody: It's hard to believe that things have changed so much in a year.
Lucky Luciano: Sure, Meyer started shaving.

Nucky Thompson: (before shooting Jimmy) I am not seeking forgiveness!

Jimmy Darmody: (recurring throughout the series) To the lost.