Most fellas in this business, they get their retirement papers straight from the Grim fuckin' Reaper.

John Torrio

What's the sense in looking back? Never does any good.

Sally Wheet

Kingdoms rise, kingdoms fall. Pretenders reach for the throne but only Caesar can rule and the pretenders fade away. What does it all mean? In the words of Marcus Aurelius, the universe is change, our life is what our thoughts make it. And my thoughts are this, everybody in this room, is going to get rich.

Salvatore Maranzano

The day repeal passes, I intend to be open for business legally, in the thirstiest country on Earth.

Nucky

If America's not about starting over where's the hope for any of us?

Nucky

Let's get something straight alright? Your beliefs, your tragic history, I don't give a rat's ass about any of it. The only thing your people and mine have in common, we both know what a dollar's worth and if we can't make it one way, we'll make it another.

Nucky

Why does a man get to do whatever he wants.

Gillian

Chalky: So he yo nigga now, that right?
Nucky: Not right.
Cghalky: So you his nigga. Think I like that better.

Hoover: You've actually pulled this off.
Knox: You seemed surprised Edgar.
Hoover: Organized crime? I'm merely exhibiting a healthy skepticism.

You can make yourself live with anything.

Gillian

Gillian: Just let it go. Get away with it. No one saw you.
Roy: I saw me! God saw me!
Gillian: You can live with it.
Roy: You can't know that.
Gillian: Yes, I can.

Gillian: You live here.
Richard: You don't.

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.