Kreizler: It's over. This wretched investigation is over.
Moore: Laszlo, give yourself a few days before ...
Kreizler: Before what? Before I get you killed too?
Moore: You weren't responsible for her death.
Kreizler: Who then, if not me?

Moore: What if I were the killer?
Joseph: No offense, Mr. Moore, but there's more a chance of pigs flying.

Moore: I'd feel much safer if there were a couple of roundsmen [policemen] present.
Sara: Not after they'd shot you in the back.

[Beecham's] no man to cross.

Bartender

It ain't fair [Connor's] living like that, and Mary's in the ground.

Stevie [to Cyrus]

You are not alone in your sorrow, and there's no shame in grieving for those you love.

Roosevelt [to Kreizler]

Byrnes: Men, good or bad, don't follow what they don't respect.
Roosevelt: And what is it you teach them to respect?
Byrnes: I taught them to respect the badge and the uniform and all that they stand for. What they do not respect is weakness.
Roosevelt: Weakness is hiding in the past, old man.

"Haply I may remember, And haply may forget." -- Christina Rossetti

Moore

I'm sure you can appreciate that girls of that age have vivid imaginations and people of the Jewish faith even more so.

Murray

Still trying to be a detective, are you, Miss Howard?

Connor [to Sara]

Sometimes, Laszlo, there are words spoken between people that are to be left private.

Moore [to Kreizler]

I'm not entirely insensitive to the hidden currents between people.

Roosevelt [to Sara]

The Alienist Season 1 Quotes

Moore: Why must you call him 'it'?
Conner: What else should you call a degenerate who dresses himself as a girl for the pleasure of grown men?

John: What can't possibly wait, Stevie?
Stevie: He said he needs you.