Margaret: He and I...
Nucky: Oh no. Really? No.
Margaret: Not that. Why does everyone assume? I helped him with stock information in exchange for an apartment.
Nucky: How'd you come up with that?
Margaret: I asked myself what you would do.

Nucky: What are you trying to prove? That you've got a better excuse than me, for being a crook?
Joe Kennedy: We can play with words but I've never broken a law in my life.
Nucky: I'd call that a technicality.
Joe Kennedy: I'd call that good business.
Nucky: If that helps you sleep.

Nucky: Doesn't have to be a contest.
Joe Kennedy: Isn't it always?
Nucky: Not if we go in together.
Joe Kennedy: Why you?

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Fern: Does she know what you are.
Chalky: She knew what I was.

Fern: There's forgiveness for everyone. That's what Jesus said.
Chalky: Baby girl, Jesus was wrong.

Nucky: There's no law against inside information.
Joe Kennedy: Knock wood.

Narcisse: I'm sorry you came up this far for nothing.
Charlie: What I love about the city, everything's so close.

Narcisse: You're in Harlem gentlemen.
Benny: Uptown downtown, it's all New York.
Narcisse: My experience is otherwise.

Why must it always be pandemonium?

Van Alden

What qualifies me is that for the past eleven years I have been one of the most successful bootleggers in the country.

Nucky

You reek by the way...of urine.

Van Alden

I know the way crime eats you out from the inside. I know it and I hate it. Give me a chance sir please. Let me do something good with my life.

Will Thompson

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.