Favorite Boardwalk Empire Quotes
Most fellas in this business, they get their retirement papers straight from the Grim fuckin' Reaper.
John Torrio
I know the way crime eats you out from the inside. I know it and I hate it. Give me a chance sir please. Let me do something good with my life.
Will Thompson
You reek by the way...of urine.
Van Alden
What qualifies me is that for the past eleven years I have been one of the most successful bootleggers in the country.
Nucky
Why must it always be pandemonium?
Van Alden
Narcisse: You're in Harlem gentlemen.
Benny: Uptown downtown, it's all New York.
Narcisse: My experience is otherwise.
Narcisse: I'm sorry you came up this far for nothing.
Charlie: What I love about the city, everything's so close.
Nucky: There's no law against inside information.
Joe Kennedy: Knock wood.
Party Guest: Imagine, a worthless desert as far as the eye can see, right there under foot a treasure of untold millions
Nucky:I can imagine it actually.
Fern: Does she know what you are.
Chalky: She knew what I was.
Nucky: Doesn't have to be a contest.
Joe Kennedy: Isn't it always?
Nucky: Not if we go in together.
Joe Kennedy: Why you?
Nucky: What are you trying to prove? That you've got a better excuse than me, for being a crook?
Joe Kennedy: We can play with words but I've never broken a law in my life.
Nucky: I'd call that a technicality.
Joe Kennedy: I'd call that good business.
Nucky: If that helps you sleep.
