Childhood doesn't last. Nothing lasts.

Gilian

Rothstein: I've never done business with a woman before.
Margaret: Well, how did you like it?
Rothstein: Quite the treat.

Rothstein: May I offer you some free advice?
Margaret: Is there anything more expensive in the world?

You've got two seconds to drop the fucking Boy Scout routine or you're going in that hole.

Nucky

Doctor Narcisse, there's something I've been meaning to ask you, for quite some time. Who the fuck, do you think you are?

Nucky

I used to believe in God, but now I don't believe in anything at all.

Van Alden

We lived for each other. A child and a child.

Gillian

Heard a lot of "we" last year, when you was in trouble. Now it's just "you."

Chalky

Nucky: I'll get you in a hotel.
Sally: Well you're welcome to try.

Daughter: Dr. Narcisse found me. Put his wings around me ever since.
Chalky: You and him ever?
Daughter: No, he's a decent man.
Chalky: So what that make me?
Daughter: That make you my man.

What I meant was that a girl don't need college the way a boy does to make her way.... Cooking, sewing, maybe typing, that's all you need to know.

Eli

Nucky: You ever wake up, have a vague feeling of unease? Like you know something's wrong but you can't put your finger on it yet.
Means: Well, when I do, I usually just go back to sleep.

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.