Eli: Something cockeyed about this guy. Who carries around another man's hankie?
Nucky: You were.

Nucky: Sid!
Sid: Need somethin?
Nucky: Why the fuck else would I be calling you?

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.

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

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.

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

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

Chalky

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

Gillian

You think you and me having some kind of discussion?

Chalky

Means: How would you judge a man you could buy within five minutes of metering him?
Nucky: I wouldn't trust him for a second.
Means: Then we are face to face with a paradox.

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

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

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.