Boardwalk Empire Quotes

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Jimmy Darmody: In the trenches once we ate dog meat. But rats?
Nucky Thompson: First rule of politics, kiddo. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Nucky Thompson: In less than two hours liquor will be declared illegal by decree of the distinguished gentlemen of our Congress. To that beautiful ignorant bastards.

Nucky Thompson: Rest assured that dry though the country may be, I am in the midst of concluding arrangements that will keep Atlantic City wet as a mermaid's twat.
Mayor Harry Bacharach: Jeez, Nucky, you're fucking mermaids now?
Nucky Thompson: Every vote counts, Mr. Mayor.

Jimmy Darmody: Two years in the field do not prepare you for a whole lot else.

Margaret Shroeder: I´ll be honored to name my child after you.
Nucky Thompson: Enoch? You couldn´t possibly be so cruel.

Elias Thompson: I wanted to arrest him, but he had 24 hours left. I couldn´t.

William McCoy: And he took the loaf of fishes, he looked at his disciples and said: “fuck it, we´re going into the whisky business”

Nucky Thompson: A rose by any other name.
Doyle: What the fuck does that mean?
Nucky Thompson: Read a fucking book.

Nucky Thompson: Do you know who dies for their countries? Fucking rubs.

Jimmy Darmody: Nucky, all I want is an opportunity.
Nucky Thompson: This is America, kid. Who the fuck is stopping you?

Lizzie: Screaming? We were fucking Eddie, fucking!

Lucky Luciano: I don´t like what I´m hearing.
Nucky Thompson: Maybe you shouldn´t listen to grown ups conversations.

Eddie Cantor: Her poor father died of throat trouble, they hanged him.

Jimmy Darmody: I´m not a kid anymore.
Nucky Thompson: Killing? Grand Larceny? Does that make you a man?

Jimmy Darmody: You can´t be half a gangster Nucky, not anymore.

Nucky Thompson: What's motherfucker mean?

Van Alden Do you have something to perk him up?
Dentist: Cocaine