What's a handshake with you supposed to be worth?

Nucky

Everyone dies, not everyone keeps their promises.

Masseria

Arnold: Mr. Doyle.
Mickey: Am I disturbing you?
Arnold: Yes!

Gillian: Must be hard to be away from your girls.
Gyp: Huh?
Gillian: Your two daughters.
Gyp: Oh yeah, yeah, at that age you take off for a few days you miss so much.
Gillian: How old are they?
Gyp: Sixteen and fourteen I think.

Gyp: You're a pistol Red.
Gillian: Then why don't you pull my trigger and see what shoots out.

Al: Glad I got that out of my system.
Chalky: You and me both.

What was brought to my door I returned.

Nucky

All of man's troubles come from his inability to sit in a quiet room by himself.

Arnold Rothstein

I went to college for a year. It's where I picked up all my bad habits.

Nucky

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

Nothing is wrong if you see nothing wrong in it.

Dr. Narcisse

Chalky: I'll give you one minute to get your Jamaican ass-
Dr. Narcisse: I am from Trinidad.
Chalky: I don't give a fuck where you're from or where the fuck you going back to.

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.