Godfrey: For God's sake, you don't have a bloody ship!
Delaney: No. Not yet.

Gentleman, we have two witnesses willing to testify that Delaney gave gunpowder to an enemy of the Crown, within the confines of the city of London. That's treason-high treason. We have him-we fucking have him! We have Delaney, we have Nootka, we have the China trade, we have opium, tea, and powder. He'll be cut to pieces.

Strange

Brace: It was a kindness.
Delaney: For who?
Brace: We couldn't go on, James.
Delaney: But you did.
Brace: You were dead: everyone was at his throat. It was burning his own flesh. There was no need to go on. Nothing left to live for.
Delaney: So you did him a kindness.
Brace: I put an end to his pain.
Delaney: You did him a kindness.
Brace: I killed him. You came back too late. For both of us.

I happen to like driving in nails. Takes your mind off the rain, and off of the sinking ship.

Delaney

Lorna: I know you didn't do it.
Delaney: And how would you know that? [grunt] I very well may have.
Lorna: [grunt] You might have done it. I do know you cared for her. You were kind to her-she told me.

Mr. Delaney, Sir Stuart just wants you to know it's war. The gloves are off.

East India Lackey

Take that dress off. Take that fucking dress off now.

Delaney [to Zilpha]

We are leaving now, because we have been betrayed. No excuses - the talking is done.

Delaney

Delaney: What have you done?
Zilpha: I killed him, just like you said.
Delaney: Where is the body?
Zilpha: In the bedroom.
Delaney: Are you sure he's dead?
Zilpha: Quite. Dead.

Brace: You stink of cow shit.
Delaney: It's horse shit, actually.

Dumbarton: The enigma that is James Delaney. You know, it's curious, this cholera epidemic that you and I invented for our own convenience has actually begun to claim lives. Six people. It's as if the disease is not transmitted by air or miasma, but by false rumor.
Delaney: That is the same as religion, or patriotism.
Dumbarton: You have no God, certainly no country. What do you have?
Delaney: Powder.

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Delaney: Go away, Winter.
Winter: I'm not scared of you.
Delaney: What are you scared of?
Winter: Of who they say you are: The African Devil. Stop staring, you're scaring me.
Delaney: Go home to your mother.

Taboo Season 1 Quotes

Thoyt: The land in your father's will is not only useless, but dangerous to anyone who owns it.
James: They're my rocks now.

Forgive me Father, for I have indeed sinned.

James