I can't sleep. I keep hearing voices. Men's voices.

Annie

You may show yourselves out once the performance is over and then, please, never call again.

Elizabeth

Corcoran: Wait, so you're saying a negro did kill O'Connor.
Freeman: Yes, but as usual, you people just grab any negro.

Remember, you're my favorite scarlet and I wouldn't want anything to come between us.

Eva

Mary had a little lamb she kept it on a barge. When she took it's bloomers off it's woolly dick got large.

Annie

You have yet to ask a question, and yet it seems you already have an answer.

Morehouse

Now I'm here because a woman was murdered. Not an innocent one mind ya, but which of us are?

Corcoran

I love this idea! Celt versus African battling in a civilized manner. Tickets will be hotter than hell's boiler room.

Morehouse

You ain't got no right coming back expecting everything to be the same. Go make your life, like I'm doing.

Francis [to Corcoran]

Police chief: Friday just happens to be the one night my men work gratis. You're a lucky woman.
Elizabeth: All widows are.

Elizabeth: Nothing good comes from fear.
Corcoran: n=Nothing good comes from denial, either.

Elizabeth: It looks magical!
Corcoran: Magic won't stop the roderick gang from coming in here and holding up your rich friends. People will get killed, Elizabeth.

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.