If you had cut off my leg without morphine it would have made me curse God, Abraham Lincoln, and my mother but it wouldn't make me turn against the Union.

Corcoran [to Matthew]

Since I've been back I've been eating too much. But Kevin doesn't mind. You know how he likes a handful when he sleeps.

Annie [to Eva]

Yes, Elizabeth should have told you the truth about Annie. But you can't bring Five Points up here where it doesn't belong. You can't threaten an innocent woman.

Morehouse [to Corcoran]

Maguire: He ran! The guilty ones always do!
Corcoran: We were going to talk to him!
Maguire: He killed Mary. I know he did, in me bones. I closed the case and saved the city.

Eva: She confided in me that you sleep with her?
Corcoran: That's absurd. That girl's mind is so bent from her past.
Eva: I know. I'm seriously considering giving her to the nuns.

Copper Quotes

Look around you, Corky. Since the riots, my people have been moving out of Five Points. My wife, her brothers were hung by the neck from those two lampposts.

Freeman

Morehouse: Corcoran cut off my leg and saved my life.
Corcoran: Luck of the Irish.
Morehouse: Don't be so modest, Corky. He saved my life and got himself a detective's badge.