You can rule by fear or you can rule by love. Remember that if you're ever in charge.

Al Capone

Mr. Thompson is a part of everything. He is in the sky and sea. He is in the dreams of children at night. He is all that there is, forever.

Eddie Kessler

Richard: Would you fight for me?
Jimmy: Of course I would, right down to the last bullet.
Richard: Then let's go to work.

The beginning's over, the end hasn't come yet. All I care about is now.

Nucky

You'll be judged by what you succeed at, boy, not by what you attempt.

The Commodore

Mickey: Sit
Van Alden: No, thank you.
Mickey: Please. I don't like the way you loom.

Not every insult requires a response.

Jimmy

Nucky: How many people have you killed?
Richard: 63
Nucky: You think about any of them?
Richard: You know the answer to that yourself.

No one likes a longshot more than a gambler.

Rothstein

A deal will always wait and a fool will always rush in.

Rothstein

Mickey: From the tiny acorn grows the mighty elk.
Jimmy: If you had a brain, you'd be dangerous.

The pups have grown fangs, gentlemen.

Nucky

Boardwalk Empire Quotes

Purity, sobriety, and the white Christian's Jesus.

KKK Member

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