Boardwalk Empire

Arnold Rothstein:
[referring to D'Alessio brothers] Do you know what the nice thing is about the Bronx zoo, Charlie? There are bars between you and the monkeys.

Arnold Rothstein:
[during a card game] What should I do here, Charlie?

Lucky Luciano:
Depends on what the other guy got.

Arnold Rothstein:
Depends on what the other gentleman has.

Lucky Luciano:
Right.

Arnold Rothstein:
Well? What does he have?

Lucky Luciano:
How should I know? I'm no swami.

Arnold Rothstein:
The very reason this game is so challenging. There's a lot of money in that pot. How much do you think is in there?

Buck:
Plenty.

Arnold Rothstein:
22,500$. How much mining equipment do you have to sell to make 22 grand, Buck?

Buck:
A lot. Now are you gonna call or fold?

Arnold Rothstein:
I'll see your two... And raise you five.

Buck:
Take it. I was bluffing.

Arnold Rothstein:
I know. So was I.

Lucky Luciano:
You wanted to see me?

Arnold Rothstein:
Yeah, it turns out my sister-in-law's nephew, for a time at least, survived the shooting in the woods.

Lucky Luciano:
Well, I'm sorry about your loss. Obviously, if there's anything I can do...

Arnold Rothstein:
There is actually. You can kill someone for me to settle a debt. I have it on good authority that a James Darmody of Atlantic City was one of the two shooters.

Lucky Luciano:
Who was the other one?

Arnold Rothstein:
I don't know. But I'd bet you're persuasive enough to get Darmody to tell you.

Lucky Luciano:
That's a good bet.

Arnold Rothstein:
The only kind I make.

Arnold Rothstein:
Meyer, Charlie, I believe you know Mr. Masseria.

Lucky Luciano:
Everybody knows Joe the boss.

Arnold Rothstein:
Then perhaps you also know, though it is of course news to me, that a card game you operate is located in territory that Mr. Masseria considers to be his.

Joe Masseria:
Not considers! Is mine.

Arnold Rothstein:
My thinking was, before any more blood is shed, that a compromise can be reached.

Meyer Lansky:
More blood?

Joe Masseria:
Tompkins Square Park, my two nephews? [imitates throat-cutting]

Lucky Luciano:
I don't know what you're talking about.

Arnold Rothstein:
Apparently two of Mr. Masseria's emissaries to your establishment were murdered shortly after their visit.

Meyer Lansky:
We do operate a game in what might be termed a grey area territorially. But as to any violence in the neighborhood...

Joe Masseria:
They stab themself, eh?

Lucky Luciano:
A coincidence then. It happens.

Joe Masseria:
On my streets, no coincidence. [indicates Charlie] This little prick, since he's 10 years old he causes problems.

Arnold Rothstein:
It seems to me you boys ought to extend a token of goodwill towards Mr. Masseria. Shall we say a one-time fee of $2,000 for the families of those gentlemen and a tax of 10% on the game going forward?

Lucky Luciano:
Hold on a f***in' second...

Arnold Rothstein:
Charlie.

Joe Masseria:
10% is okay. For now.

Arnold Rothstein:
Then we have an agreement? [shake hands]

Joe Masseria:
[in Italian] What are you doing with these Christ-killers? Come with me, I'll make you rich.

Lucky Luciano:
[in Italina] With your other hand in my pockets.

Joe Masseria:
[in Italian] I'm watching you, boy. Every f***ing step. [Luciano stands up angrily]

Arnold Rothstein:
Charlie.

Lucky Luciano:
A.R., two grand is bad enough, but 10% of the f***ing game?

Meyer Lansky:
We already pay half the take on that game to you.

Arnold Rothstein:
Yes. And now you boys know why.

Lucky Luciano:
There's another 50 in the car. They're ingersolls.

Meyer Lansky:
I wish you would stop with this. We schlep around with a box of watches, what do we look like?

Lucky Luciano:
Fellas who know what time it is.

Meyer Lansky:
Might as well set up a pushcart.

Benny Siegel:
[comes in, surprised] Arnold Rothstein's here.

Meyer Lansky:
We're talking, Benny.

Benny Siegel:
Oh. So I should tell him go f*** a duck?

Lucky Luciano:
Enough with the crazy sh*t already, huh?

Meyer Lansky:
[glancing at Rothstein through the window] Bring him in before he breaks the house. [they scramble to look presentable] A.R., did you come to sit in?

Lucky Luciano:
You know you're always welcome.

Arnold Rothstein:
I'm afraid those sharpers out there'd fleece me. Owing to his present difficulties, I've made a deal with Nucky Thompson. He'll be offloading his liquor shipments in Philadelphia. Waxey Gordon will ensure safe arrival. The route to Atlantic city will be my responsibility.

Meyer Lansky:
And you'd like us to recruit the muscle?

Arnold Rothstein:
I would like you to be the muscle.

Lucky Luciano:
A.R., we, uh, got some business going on just now.

Arnold Rothstein:
I can see that. But Mr. Thompson is paying me a premium.

Lucky Luciano:
Anybody could ride shotgun.

Arnold Rothstein:
Until you encounter Indians.

Meyer Lansky:
We're honored by your trust, A.R., and flattered that you would come below 14th street to discuss it personally. Aren't we, Charlie?

Lucky Luciano:
Sure.

Arnold Rothstein:
As it happens, I was down here having dinner with Joe Masseria, who left me with the distinct impression he'd still like both of you dead.

Lucky Luciano:
You broke bread with that prick?

Arnold Rothstein:
We were served a native dish of tripe, which I cannot abide. But I ate it anyway, to keep the peace. Some things, Charlie, you just have to swallow.

[coming in to speak with her husband, Arnold Rothstein]

Carolyn Rothstein:
Arnold, a Nucky Thompson on the telephone.

Arnold Rothstein:
I'll take it in here, darling.

Carolyn Rothstein:
[about his diet, with a smile] How's that stomach?

Arnold Rothstein:
It's still a little tentative.

Carolyn Rothstein:
So much apple bread.

Arnold Rothstein:
[laughs lightly] It has a binding effect.

Carolyn Rothstein:
Is that the best thing right now?

Arnold Rothstein:
A sound elimination is the basis of good health.

[Carolyn looks at him amusedly before exiting]

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
The puppies have grown fangs.

Margaret Schroeder:
I would be honored to name my child after you.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Enoch? You couldn't possibly be so cruel.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
You can't be half a gangster, Nucky. Not anymore.

Chalky White:
These here are my daddy tools.

Klan leader:
[nervously] What are you going to do with them?

Chalky White:
Well, I ain't building no bookcase.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
You're sensitive.

Chalky White:
Like a baby's ass, motherf***er.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
To the lost.

Al Capone:
[after killing a few enemies] Well I got that out of my system!

Chalky White:
You and me both.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
What's 'Motherf***er' mean?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[Talking to Jimmy about the Commodore] Your father is a very duplicitous man. You've been told.

Mickey Doyle:
Should I be concerned that there's blood on some of these crates?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Not unless it's yours.

Commodore Louis Kaestner:
[to Jimmy] You'll be judged by what you succeed at, Boy, not by what you attempt.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
[Joining Nucky on porch outside Klansman's funeral] An awful waste of a lot of good tablecloths.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
And the laundry bills.

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
[about Chalky White] That is one uppity shine.

Margaret Schroeder:
[after Nucky comes home in the morning] It's nearly 8 a.m.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Considering the night I had, I'm amazed I'm home before 9.

Margaret Schroeder:
[sarcastically] I'm sure.

Gillian Darmody:
How was dinner with your father?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Which one?

Commodore Louis Kaestner:
Don't look so uncomfortable, Ed!

Governor Edward I. Edwards:
You're not the biggest crook I've been seen in public with.

Commodore Louis Kaestner:
Wish I could say the same about you.

Arnold Rothstein:
[to Luciano] We're on the verge of a war, Charle. You heard it yourself. Nucky Thompson's about to move on Joe Masseria, and until such time as one of them is dead, it would be unwise to venture into any new years.

Meyer Lansky:
What if the deal won't wait.

Arnold Rothstein:
A deal will always wait, and a fool will always rush in.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
We all need to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with.

Bill McCoy:
Tucker's very excited to meet you.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[deadpan] Most people are until they do.

Bill McCoy:
[welcoming Nucky to Florida] Welcome to Tamps, land of cunny, money. ans where it's always sunny.

Bill McCoy:
When I was caught, I had my ship confiscted. It was his scotch on board.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
How much?

Bill McCoy:
Almost 200 grand. He was there waiting for me the day I got out of jail. He was the first thing when my eyes to the sunlight.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
If you needed money, why didn't you ask me?

Bill McCoy:
Because I wanted to earn it. I'm not some kind of charity case, am I? He said if I made the intro, got you involved as his partner, he'd forgive the debt.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I'm supposed to partner with some two-bit f***in' hillbilly?

Bill McCoy:
He's a big man ariund these parts.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[sarcastically] I've already met the world's tallest midget om your midway back home.

Sally Wheet:
[to Nucky] Anybody who says money doesn't buy happiness doesn't know where to shop.

Arnold Rothstein:
I find you don't really know a man until you play cards with him.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Don't we know each other, Arnold?

Arnold Rothstein:
One would have thought so.

Meyer Lansky:
[quietly to an upset Arnold, urging him to quit the poker game] Wouldn't it be best if people don't see you like this?

Meyer Lansky:
[talking to Nucky about Luciano and him] Last year we made more money than the President of the United States.

Jake Guzik:
I'll be out in a week. I only missed three pickups.

Al Capone:
You get your strength back. I'm gonna slip one of these nurses a fin. Get you a nice little sponge bath.

Frank Capone:
Make it a couple of nurses. -There's a lot of Jake to sponge down.

Gillian Darmody:
Mrs. Darmody?

Gillian Darmody:
Yes?

Lucky Luciano:
I'm a friend of James.

Gillian Darmody:
His friends call him Jimmy. So who are you really?

Lucky Luciano:
I'm, uh, what you call an acquaintance from New York.

Gillian Darmody:
That part I suspected. What's your name?

Gillian Darmody:
Never mind my name. Is he here or ain't he?

Gillian Darmody:
He's not.

Lucky Luciano:
Then where is he?

Gillian Darmody:
Maybe he's up your ass. Have you considered looking there?

Lucky Luciano:
You got a fresh mouth for a broad. Maybe I need to smack it.

Gillian Darmody:
The roughneck bit... is that what little girls are going for these days?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Appropriations money. Almost $30 million for Jersey alone you can bet your keester I'm going to get a piece of that pie.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[Eddie looks confused] It's an expression, "a piece of the pie". Don't you have pie in Germany?

Eddie Kessler:
We have strudel.

Margaret Schroeder:
Where's your sense of romance, Edith?

Edith Day:
It left along with my husband.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
One hand washes the other, and both hands wash the face.

Deputy Halloran:
Take a lot of suds to wash Chalky's face.

Al Capone:
[after shooting a round next to Jimmy's ear as he sleeps for a joke] Look at the soldier!. Boy, you'd have pissed your pants if you were wearin' any!

Pearl:
I'll pass on the compliment

John McGarrigle:
[referring to Nuckie] What's your business with him?

Owen Slater:
I've done as ordered and gone about my work.

John McGarrigle:
He's after nothing but himself.

Owen Slater:
Fair to say he's in his own war.

John McGarrigle:
For what?

Owen Slater:
A great pile of dosh. [he laughs]

John McGarrigle:
Is that all they fight for?

Owen Slater:
It seems to keep 'em busy.

John McGarrigle:
[entering the mortuary basement] Mr. Thompson...

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Mr. McGarrigle... Thsnks for coming here.

John McGarrigle:
I understand misfortunes caught up with you.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Doesn't it with everyone?

Arnold Rothstein:
[to the D'Allessios] A reputation takes a lifetime to build and only a second to destroy.

Arnold Rothstein:
[to Luciano after the D'Alessios leave] You know what the nice thing is about the Bronx Zoo, Charlie? There's bars between you and the monkeys.

Edward Bader:
[as they sit in a club after the women have gone to the bathroom] So, I'm assuming you didn't ask me here to sing my praises.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Of course not, Edward. I can't sing a note.

Al Capone:
[advising a sweaty Jake Guzik] Personal hygiene, Jake. It makes a good impression.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[giving Federal Agent Sawicki a cash bribe] Go buy a personality.

Boardwalk Barker:
Step right up friends, watcha waitin for? Lovely ladies, direct from Paris... France.

Mrs. McGarry:
[Mrs McGarry reads out the following "Owed (sic) to Liquor" at a meeting, also appears on a picture she gives to Nucky] Coward, monster, vicious brute / Friend to thief and prostitute. / Heartless, Godless, hell's delight / Crude by day and lewd by night / Conscience dulled by demon rum / Liquor, thy name is / DELIRIUM!

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
First rule of politics, kiddo: never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Eddie Kessler:
I heard screaming. Are you all right? May I enter?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
No! What do yo want?

Lucy Danziger:
Steinman's on the wire.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Oh, Christ!

Lucy Danziger:
What?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
All right!

Lucy Danziger:
He is always interrupting us! Jeez Louise! Arggh!

Eddie Kessler:
What?

Lucy Danziger:
Screaming? We were f***ing, Eddie! F***ing!

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[entering the casino where Rothstein has been cheating and winning big] You fellas ever hear of sleep?

Arnold Rothstein:
Who can sleep with all this excitement?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Heard you had a lucky streak.

Lucky Luciano:
[smirking] Luck had nothing to do with it.

Arnold Rothstein:
I'm a skilled player is what he means.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[to the ladies' temperance league] In closing, however, let me say this: without the continued support of good, decent women like you, men like me would be nowhere.

Mickey Doyle:
[held at gunpoint by Richard in Nucky's office] I didn't mean nothing by it. It was just a rib. A joke!

Richard Harrow:
A man's death is no laughing matter.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I don't know what this is, but I don't want it happening here!

Richard Harrow:
Tell him.

Mickey Doyle:
Nucky, you've gotta believe me- [Richard c*cks pistol, Mickey starts blubbering]

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Mr. Harrow!

Mickey Doyle:
Didn't do it! Didn't do it! I didn't kill Manny Horvitz!

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Whoever said you did?

Richard Harrow:
He said it.

Mickey Doyle:
I was only blowing smoke, okay? Shooting my mouth off, just to keep things lively! I never went near him, I swear.

Richard Harrow:
He's telling the truth.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
How do you know?

Richard Harrow:
How do you think?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[realizing] Jesus...

Richard Harrow:
[describing killing Manny] I waited, outside his house. I used a shotgun, very close.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
May I ask why?

Richard Harrow:
Angela Darmody.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Not her husband?

Richard Harrow:
Jimmy was a soldier. He fought, he lost.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
So I can assume my family and I are safe?

Richard Harrow:
You and Mrs. Thompson were good to me. You have nothing to fear.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
How many people have you killed?

Richard Harrow:
Sixty-three.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Do you think about any of them?

Richard Harrow:
You know the answer to that, yourself. [leaves]

Mickey Doyle:
[to a warehouse worker] Get that liquor over to Gillian Darmody;s, and don't try to whistle a hand-job for a tip.

Gyp Rosetti:
Why did you come?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Obviously I insulted you in some way, but since you're a man who can find an insult in a boquet of roses, I'm not sure quite way.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
I thought we killed them all.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[exasperated] He thought- f***ing Aristotle!

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[referring to Chalky White] What does "motherf***er" mean?

Eddie Kessler:
[bewildered] I suppose it's a Schwatza word.

Lucky Luciano:
Obviously if there's anything I can do...

Arnold Rothstein:
There is actually. You can kill someone for me to settle a debt. I have it on good authority that James Darmody of Atlantic ity was one of the two shooters.

Lucky Luciano:
Who was the other one?

Arnold Rothstein:
I don't know, but I bet you're persuasive enough to get Darmody to tell you.

Lucky Luciano:
That's a good bet.

Arnold Rothstein:
The only kind I make.

Sally Wheet:
[on the phone to the States] Well, what do I tell Ronis? He's expecting his good faith money.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
They are three words that don't go together.

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
How come you always had to be the wise one?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Because you needed me to be.

Al Capone:
[bitterly, while tearfully mourning over his brother's dead body] Every f***in' thing that crawls is gonna pay!

Frank Capone:
[to Van Alden outside his partially finished pre-fab house] Stick with me, hunh. I'll put grass on your f***in' lawn.

Eddie Kessler:
I have done nothing wrong.

Agent Knox:
You had a pistol up your sleeve.

Eddie Kessler:
That is for protection.

Agent Knox:
Against who?

Eddie Kessler:
[sarcastically] Apaches!

Al Capone:
[unhappy that younger brother Al is snorting cocaine] What are yuh doin'?

Al Capone:
[sarcastically] Trainin' my flea circus. Wattaya think?

Margaret Schroeder:
When I was a girl in Ireland, a raggedy man would come around every spring with a little Bantam rooster. He'd trained it to peck out "The Mountains of Mourne" on a toy piano hung off his chest.

Lucy Danziger:
So?

Margaret Schroeder:
Well... the first year he came, we all of us, the girls in that place, we thought it magical. The second year, we laughed behind our hands at the odd man and his tatters, and the third year we didn't even go, because "The Mountains of Mourne" was all that little rooster could ever do.

Lucy Danziger:
So what's the point?

Margaret Schroeder:
That maybe your cunny... isn't quite the draw you think it is.

Ukulele Girl:
What's going on behind those baby blues?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I try to be good. I really do.

Ukulele Girl:
[seductively] It's too late to be good tonight, Dolly.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
These show people... some of them are a lot of fun.

Margaret Schroeder:
Houdini's brother... Does he escape from things as well?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I'll bet he escapes from the check.

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
[anticipating Nucky shooting him] I'm ready... are you?

Valentin Narcisse:
[facing deportation by the FBI] The exile doesn't choose his Babylon.

Benny Siegel:
Hey, Talia, I think I left my tongue down there.

Commodore Louis Kaestner:
[having difficulty talking] Just... show 'em your c*nt.

Commodore Louis Kaestner:
[Jimmy gives him a puzzled look] You heard me. Just lift up your skirt, and let yourself get f***ed.

Manny Horvitz:
[referring to Jimmy's peace offering] He tries to kill me and fails, and now he sends $5000 worth of piss water to get out of it.

Mickey Doyle:
He's paying his debt is all.

Manny Horvitz:
[quoting] "He who dies pays all his debts.

Isaac Ginsburg:
[whining that he can't get a change of venue for the trial] I don't know what to tell you, Nucky. I'm very disapointed.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
OKay, try that again, only this time leave out the part where you sound like my mother.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[deciding on a new lawyer] And what would you do, Arnold?

Arnold Rothstein:
No one likes a long shot more than a gambler.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[referring to the Irish whiskey] Is that real?

Owen Slater:
[after sampling it] Straight from the old girl's tit!

[after Richard returns late from his would-be suicidal trip into the woods on Memorial Day]

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Where were you today?

Richard Harrow:
Needed to take a walk.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
I should've gone with you.

Richard Harrow:
We're both back now.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
You up for a job tonight? [Richard just looks at him] Is there a problem, Richard?

Richard Harrow:
[haltingly] Would you... fight for me?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
[walks over to him; with intensity] Of course I would. Right down to the last bullet.

Richard Harrow:
[near tears] Then let's go to work. [Jimmy puts an affectionate hand on the side of his head]

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
[Coming up to the platform to give a speech] You think I can't play this game.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I don't even think you know the rules.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
You actually enjoy golfing?

Harry Daugherty:
I enjoy being a man with the time to play it.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[after Margaret has saved him from being strangled by Eli] In the future if you're going to point a gun at someone, make sure it's loaded.

Margaret Schroeder:
[after a pause] Is this to be our life.

Alby:
[inside the general lockup] So, what are you in for, Nucky?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[sardonically] An unquenchable thirst.

Margaret Thompson:
I've done what I thought was best and wound up here. How did that happen?

Owen Slater:
There's questions best left till morning.

Margaret Thompson:
Then why do we ask ourselves them at night?

Owen Slater:
Ah...

Owen Slater:
[He nods, pauses, and smiles knowingly] Must be the pooka again.

Senator Wendell Lloyd:
[looking disheveled as if he were up all night] Morning, folks. It's still morning, isn't it?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Wendell, where have you been?

Senator Wendell Lloyd:
To tell you the truth, I'm not exactly sure.

narrator:
"Be honest and true boys! Whatever you do, boys, let this be your motto through life. Be honest and true boys! Whatever you do, boys, let this be your motto through life. Both now and forever , be this your endeavor, when wrong with the right is at strife. The best and the truest; Alas! Are the fewest; but be one of these if you can. In duty, ne'er fail; you will fing 'twill awail you, and bring its rewards when a man. Don't think life plain sailing... There's danger of failing, through bright the futures seem to be... But bright honor and labor and truth to your neighbor will bear you safe over life's seas."

Senator Walter Edge:
How are you, Nuck?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I can't complain, but that doesn't mean I won't.

Bill Fallon:
You kmow it's not too late to gp to law school, Arnold.

Arnold Rothstein:
I prefer to earn my living honestly.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[to Johnny Torrio] I'm a politioian. There are some things you can't buy in a cathouse.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Anything out of Chicago?

Conductor:
Just came over the wires. Warren Harding received the nomination after ten ballots.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[to Eddie after the conductor has left] That imbecile is going to be the nexr President of the United States.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Relax, I'm not gonna kill you... Did you serve, Liam? In the war?

Liam:
I had pneumatic fever.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Three years. France, mostly. It's almost impossible to describe the horror... It's a living... waking... nightmare... There was a soldier, a German; him and his men tried to attack our position in the Argonne forest. It was nighttime. While he was trying to climb through some barbwire, I shot him twice; once in the stomach, once in the neck. He slumped over the barbwire, and no matter what he did to try and wriggle free, it just got worse for him. I left him there, like that, for days, listening to him moaning, crying, "mutti, mutti, mutti"; that's German for "mama"; "mama", that's what he kept saying. The curious thing is that despite the fact that his situation was utterly hopeless, he didn't wanna die. I offered to kill him several times, but he just kept fighting. Like some miracle would befall him, get him out of his predicament. We hold on so desperately to life; some people feel, certainly in that soldiers situation, that being alive is much, much worse... I'm gonna go now... I don't wanna ever see you again.

Liam:
You won't. [Jimmy gets up and leaves]

Margaret Schroeder:
[to Nucky] Sometimes its best to leave the past where it is.

Richard Harrow:
[referring to the government's testing of veterans] They're interested in what's inside our heada so the next time we'll fight better.

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
[their identities and crimes exposed, Van Alden and Eli sit in the interrogation room] Look, I don't know about you, but my life is a f***in' shipwreck!

Nelson Van Alden:
[sarcastically] Well, land ho!

Joe Masseria:
[symbolically correcting the clock in Gyp's office] Now you know what time it is!

Joe Masseria:
[referring to Gyp's opponents in the ongoing gang war] They are from here?

Gyp Rosetti:
So?

Joe Masseria:
This is their home. That's why they fight, and the other ones... who are they?

Gyp Rosetti:
What does it matter once they're dead?

Joe Masseria:
Everyone dies. Not everyone keeps his promises.

Lucky Luciano:
[being worked over by two cops and pressured to give up information] Then what's in it for me?

Gaetano:
You like to gamble, don't you?

Lucky Luciano:
Only when I got a chance of winnin'.

Gaetano:
Best you can do here is not lose.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Big bait captures big rat.

Last Rosetti Thug:
[Holding a gun to Tommy's head and telling Richard to put his gun down] Put it down!

Richard Harrow:
[Richard begins to put his gun down] Tommy, close your eyes. [He points the gun upward and shoots Rosetti's man in the eye]

[His blood splatters all over the window]

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[obviously feeling a sexual attraction to Sally ] What does a man do down there in Florida... aside from alligator fights?

Sally Wheet:
You didn't like those?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I won fifty bucks.

Sally Wheet:
[Languorously] Well, a man does what he wants, or else he doesn't do anything at all.

Arnold Rothstein:
I ran the odds on the way down.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
On what?

Arnold Rothstein:
Whether you'd attempt to kill me.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Watcha come up with?

Arnold Rothstein:
F orteen to one against.

Alma Pastor:
[after she has opened up her blouse and Dunn has lowered his trousers] Don't touch my hair!

Dunn Purnsley:
[after Alma has suggestively asked him to freshen her drink] What was in here again?

Alma Pastor:
Weren't you payin' attention?

Dickie Pastor:
A New York sour.

Dunn Purnsley:
Mix you up the Jersey version.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[Addressing the crowd] What do you call an Irishman who doesn't swear? A mute! What do you call an Irishnman that doesn't drink? A corpse!

Margaret Schroeder:
[to Van Alden] I've been lectured a great deal today by men who speak boldly and do nothing.

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
Maybe one day I'll learn to lie as good as you.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Ot's "lie as well as me," you dolt! You want to be taken seriously, then learn to f***ing speak!

Arnold Rothstein:
Who are you, Mr. Darmody? You show up well dressed with a silk cravat and a bold proposal. A year ago, you were a brigand in the woods. Who are you?

Commodore Louis Kaestner:
Ask the man inside of you this: When you come face to face with destiny do you want to be the bear or do you want to be the one holding the shotgun?

Arnold Rothstein:
You hear, Charlie - discretion. Charlie volunteered to absent himself from this meeting. He felt his presence might be disruptive, but I counseled what?

Lucky Luciano:
Never let the past get in the way of the future.

Arnold Rothstein:
[after Jimmy asks if he has children] No, but I'm told they often say unexpected and amusing things.

Ward Boss Neary:
The Commodore wants Nucky next to that f***in' grizzly. That's what's gonna happen.

Meyer Lansky:
May I call you Jimmy?

Meyer Lansky:
[after an uncomfortably long pause] Jimmy, Charlie and I have learned a great deal from Mr. Rothstein as I'm sure you have from Mr. Thompson, but nobody wants to be in school forever.

Leander Cephas Whitlock:
[Toasting Eli] Propinate nobis similibusque. [Translation: "Here's to us and those like us - damn few left]

Margaret Schroeder:
[to Nucky] You are smarter than your enemies and you will persevere, but you aren't thinking clearly now. You must concentrate and not give over to emotion.

Isaac Ginsburg:
There's reporters out there. Do you want a lawyer by your side?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
That's what guilty men do.

Arnold Rothstein:
And Nucky Thompson?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Nucky's like a father to me.

Lucky Luciano:
I got a father. Barely said hello in five years.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Sorry to hear that.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
[as Jimmy is walking out of an unproductive meeting with Rothstein, Luciano calls after him in a conciliatory fashion] Darmody, look, AR don't like sayin', "No."

Lucky Luciano:
He doesn't like sayin', "Yes" either.

Lucky Luciano:
Not unless he has to.

John McGarrigle:
We need guns and the money to buy them. Mr. Moramn tells me you're a loyal son of Ireland. I call upon that loyalty now.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[after a pause] What would you consider sufficient?

John McGarrigle:
What you have.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[Nucky walks over to his bank book and begins writing a check] Make it out to the Ancient Order of Celts.

Ernie Moran:
What'd I tell yuh, John!

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Remind yoyr boys at the next dinner who your best friend in town is.

John McGarrigle:
Cash is better.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I say the same thing myself, but today is not the day.

Nelson Van Alden:
Under the pretence of his need to micturate.

Theodore Hardeen:
I'm a magician, Miss, not a thief.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
That's an excuse that might come in handy some day.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[during an argument with Eli] You know, it's too bad you didn't see Hardeen the other night.

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
What?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
It's an entertaining act, but if he wasn't Houdini's bother, nobody'd give a f***.

Commodore Louis Kaestner:
[annoyed aat Jimmy's indifference to his dog's death] You're a stony little bastard.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
I'm what time and circumstance have made me.

Gillian Darmody:
[to Jimmy about the Commodore] I told the doctor that I'd meet him at your father's house. No one deserves to die alone.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
We belong here/

Gillian Darmody:
It wouldn't be right anywhere else?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Do you know what happens tomorro?

Gillian Darmody:
It's not important.

Gillian Darmody:
It is to me. A man 's gonna get off a train. He's gonna walk up to Nucky Thompson, and he's gonna put a bullet in him.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
[poining t his head] Right here... just because I said so. What do you think about that?

Gillian Darmody:
I think the world's going to find out what kind of man it's dealing with.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
And if I call it off?

Gillian Darmody:
Your friends wouldn't like that.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
They don't care what happens to Nucky.

Gillian Darmody:
No, but they are watching you... very closely. They're delighful boys, colorful and ambitious, but I'd never make the mistake of letting them see you be indecisive.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
...and that's why he dies?

Eddie Kessler:
Mr. Thompson is a part of everything. He is in the sky and sea. He is in the dreams of children at night. He is all that there is, forever.

Chalky White:
[turning to Chalky as he leaves] I like this room. One looks down and sees many secret things. You know what I saw?

Chalky White:
No.

Valentin Narcisse:
A servant pretending to be a king. [He leaves]

Dunn Purnsley:
[sarcastically to Alma as she leaves] Get your story all told?

Valentin Narcisse:
[contemptuously to Dunn after she goes past him without saying anything] The Negro in question...

Dunn Purnsley:
What that make you?

Valentin Narcisse:
Merely another child of God.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[Nucky is talking to a thief who broke into his warehouse] I'm not mad at you, Nate; you were only doing your job.

Nate:
Thank you, Mr. Thompson.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Who was your wheel man?

Nate:
Roman Smith.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Roman Smith. Okay, untie him.

[walks away]

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[to Manny Horvitz] Before you untie him, put a bullet in his f***ing head.

Nate:
[panicked and screaming] No, Mr. Thompson, No!

Manny Horvitz:
There are some people you just shouldn't steal from.

[shoots Nate in the head]

Gillian Darmody:
[in her brothel] If it weren't for married men, we'd be out of business.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[nestling his head between his new mistress's thighs] The only place I can truly rest my head.

Harry Daugherty:
[changing the subject as he looks at the headline] What do you think of the lady flier?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
She should spread her legs and leave spreading her wings to her husband.

Gaston Means:
Consider me an admirer, Mr. Thompson. Ordinary men avoid trouble. Extra-ordinary men turn it to their advantage. You and I have that in common.

Gaston Means:
[after being asked about an additional bribe] How would you judge a man you could buy within five minutes of meeting him?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I wouldn't trust him for a second.

Gaston Means:
Then we are face to face with paradox.

Billie Kent:
I'll bite. What do you want?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I... want... everything to run all by itself.

Billie Kent:
Then what would you do?

Eddie Kessler:
[with Thorogood Exclaiming his desire for a sex act with a prostitute] Yeah, I understand. You want Schlampen.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
You can't kill everyone, Manny. It'd not good business.

Margaret Schroeder:
[reading to Emily and Teddy] "I built that palace and the Emerald City too," remarked the Wizard in a thoughtful tone, "and I'd like to see them again, for I was very happy amongst the Munchkins and Winkies and Quadlings and Gillikins." "Who are they?" asked the boy. "The four nations that inhabit the land of Oz," was the reply. [she looks up and sees Harrow hovering in the doorway. The children look nervous]

Richard Harrow:
Sorry. [he turns to leave]

Margaret Schroeder:
[after a pause] Mr. Harrow... [he turns back] We're reading The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum.

Richard Harrow:
Yes?

Margaret Schroeder:
Please join us, if you'd like.

Richard Harrow:
Thank you. [he comes in and sits down]

Margaret Schroeder:
"I wonder if they would treat me nicely if I went there again." "Of course they would," declared Dorothy. "They are still proud of their former Wizard and often speak of you kindly." "Do you happen to know whatever became of the Tin Woodsman and the Scarecrow?" he inquired. "They live in Oz yet," said the girl, "and are very important people." [she turns the page and shows Harrow the illustration of the Tin Man]

Richard Harrow:
Hmm. The Tin Woodsman. [to the children] That's me. [he taps his mask] I think I need some oil. [the children giggle]

Emily Schroeder:
Mama, it's really him?

Margaret Schroeder:
Why, yes, dear, directly from Oz. And who better to have in our house than the mighty Tin Woodsman? [she smiles at Harrow, and he smiles shyly back]

Leo D'Alessio:
How can we make it up to you?

Arnold Rothstein:
Nothing says I'm sorry like money.

Margaret Schroeder:
Is this what it means to be in charge? People shooting at you?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Success breeds enemies... which you'll discover soon enough after women win the vote.

Supervisor Elliot:
[Angry at Van Alden] For God's sake. man, you have bungled this from the start! [He throws papers at Van Alden, and there is a pause] This is your last chance, Nelson. One more mistep, and you'll be hunting moonshiners down in the Everglades!

Chalky White:
So, uh, when all is said and done, what you fixin' to do about Mr. Rothstein?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I'm going to make him the richest corpse in New York.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Mr. Rothstein made his bed.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
And you fellas can die in it.

Lucien D'Alessio:
[scoffs] Tough talk when he ain't in the room, right?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
[looking at Lucien] What'd you say?

Lucien D'Alessio:
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you heard me. What I said was you, Mr. Thompson, and this coon here could all go f*** each other. Right.

[Meyer Lansky looks worried, Chalky smiles and chuckles]

[Jimmy c*cks his gun]

Lucien D'Alessio:
Oh, oh, f***in' tough guy. You gonna shoot me for mouthing off?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
I wasn't going to, but you kinda talked me into it.

[Jimmy shoots Lucien]

Nelson Van Alden:
Sometimes I find it easier to despise someone than to love them.

Johnny Torrio:
[referring to murdered gangsters like Rothstein, Masseria, etc] Most of the fellas in this business get their retirement papers from the Grim Reaper.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
You're out, Mickey.

Mickey Doyle:
[to his cellmate] So long, sucker. See youse in the funny papers.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Not out of jail, out of business. Chalky White's taking over.

Mickey Doyle:
What are you talking about? Why?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
You broke the cardinal rule, Mickey. You got caught.

Mickey Doyle:
No, that was a setup. The fix was in from the beginning.

[his cellmate mutters something in a foreign language]

Mickey Doyle:
Shut the f*** up! What am I suppose to tell my partners?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Tell them whatever you'd like. The feds know who you are now, Mick. You're contagious.

Mickey Doyle:
So you'll bail me out, at least?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
No can do. I can't risk them tying us together.

Mickey Doyle:
So you're just gonna leave me in here with... slanty-eyes? He don't even talk English!

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Think of it as a way to broaden your horizons.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Five.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Actually, there were four, but let's not quibble over that little detail, shall we?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
We couldn't leave any witnesses, Nuck.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
F***ing idiot.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
I screwed up, okay? I'm sorry. I'm gonna make it up to you. I'll work extra hours.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Whoa, hold on there. Wait a second. You don't work for me anymore. Let's get that straight right now. And you made that decision, not me.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Well, who's gonna drive you?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
What's the difference? You wanna be a gangster, kid? Go be a gangster. But if you want to be a gangster in my town, then you'll pay me for the priviledge. That envelope you gave me, my end, according to my calculations, you're three grand short.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
What do you mean?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Are you deaf and stupid? You pull a stunt like that, ass-f*** me with Arnold Rothstein in the process, you owe me another three grand.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Nucky, I spent most of the money.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Three thousand dollars. You got forty-eight hours.

Arnold Rothstein:
There was a man once. I don't recall his name. Frequented the billiard parlors downtown. He made a comfortable living wagering whether he could swallow certain objects, billiard balls being a specialty. He'd pick a ball, take it down his gullet to here, and regurgitate it back up. And one evening, I decided to challenge this man to a wager. Ten thousand in cash for him to do the trick with a billiard ball of my choosing. Now, he knew I'd seen him do this a dozen times, so I can only surmise that he thought I was stupid. We laid down the cash and I handed him the cue ball. He swallowed it down. It lodged in his throat, and he choked to death on the spot. What I knew and he didn't was that the cue ball was one-sixteenth of an inch larger than the other balls. Just too large to swallow. Do you know what the moral of this tale is, Mr. Yale?

Frankie Yale:
Don't eat a cue ball?

Arnold Rothstein:
The moral of this story is that if I'd cause a stranger to choke to death for my own amusement, what do you think I'll do to you if you don't tell me who ordered you to kill Colosimo?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
What are you doing?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
It's 4:30. I'm clocking in.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Just like that? I'd say our relationship has changed rather significantly in the past few days. Wouldn't you agree?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
You tell me.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Actually, why don't you tell me? You can start with what the f*** happened the other night. How's that?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
All right.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Did I invite you to sit?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Me and Al, we got to talking about life.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Who's Al?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Capone. He works for Johnny Torrio.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
The chubby kid?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Yeah.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Did Torrio sanction this?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Only after the fact. It was my idea. Mine and Al's. We got to talking about life, family, money. He's got a little boy of his own.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Young children at home and there's no goddamn accountability whatsoever.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
I said I was sorry, Nuck.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Really? When was that?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
I'm sorry. I thought it would be easy, okay? Get the drop on them, swipe the truck. No one would get hurt.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
And me? Where'd I figure in?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
It would have never been traced back to you.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Well, guess what? A fed came in to see me this morning, standing right where you are now, asking questions about Saturday night.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
What'd you tell him?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
To bugger himself. What the f*** do you think?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
There were deer in the woods. Al got spooked, he started shooting.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
So you kill four f***ing guys?

Nelson Van Alden:
You're a difficult man to see. I've been waiting since 9 a.m.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Well, there's your mistake right there. I don't keep regular hours.

Nelson Van Alden:
That's s little odd for the county treasurer, isn't it?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Both I and the city Atlantic march to their own drummers.

Abe Klein:
[trying to impress Claudia] Thompson's a big cheese. Big as they come.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[to Claudia with self=deprecating humor] Some say a big rat.

Margaret Thompson:
Knowing nothing doesn't make in better.

Owen Slater:
It's Mr. Rosetti as yuh probably guessed.

Margaret Thompson:
What on earth did Enoch do to him?

Owen Slater:
He said 'No' when he wanted to hear 'Yes.'

Margaret Thompson:
Knowim' nothinn'

Bill McCoy:
Here's the man you want to know.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Mr. Pierce

Vincenzo Petrucelli:
Mr. Thompson. Welcome to the land of possibilities.

Sally Wheet:
What's his problem?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
That's my brother.

Sally Wheet:
No wonder he looks so miserable.

Chalky White:
Where he at now?

Dunn Purnsley:
Back room, You-Knee-Ah. I got the car downstairs. Tiny and Chaz waiting. You and me head over, send that hamfat straight to Libya.

Chalky White:
Hmm. All worked out?

Dunn Purnsley:
No sense lollygagging.

Chalky White:
One thing you ain't mentioned, buck.

Dunn Purnsley:
What?

Chalky White:
How much he payin' you to f*** me.

Eddie Kessler:
[nervously] I don't quite know how to say this...

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[sarcastically] Just start yammering like always.

Leander Cephas Whitlock:
There's still the matter of Tommy's guardianship.

Gillian Darmody:
Whatever it costs.

Leander Cephas Whitlock:
You're raising him in a whorehouse!

Gillian Darmody:
[affirmatively] It's a health resort!

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
What do you do for fun, Esther?

Esther Randolph:
[sarcastically] I run naked through the pages of the United States Criminal Code.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Et tu, Eli?

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
What?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar...

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
[after Nucky's words sink in] There's a character named Eli?

Esther Randolph:
[trying to convince Margaret into leaving Nucky and testifying against him] You'll never have to see him again. Set yourself free, Mrs. Schroeder. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll free.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[to Margaret] If there really is a God, would he have really given me this mug?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[at his father's wake] I'm here for mother, and for Susan.

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
They're all together now.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Heaven? If such a thing existed, you really think that son of a b*tch would be there?

[Eli starts crying]

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
Was he that bad, Nucky? Really?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
You've obviously forgotten key events from our childhood.

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
I turned out OK. So did you. Whatever he did, he made us the men we are today.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
What's that?

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
We run this f***ing town, Nucky!

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
WE don't run anything, brother. And he can rot in hell.

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
That's you, boy, in spades. No capacity for forgiveness.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Grow up, brother, please. And take some responsibility. At long f***ing last.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[to Torrio and Rothstein about Darmody, Luciano, and Capone] The pups have grown fangs, gentlemen.

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
[coming into the funeral parlor and surprised to see Nucky] Nucky... what are you doin' here?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I have just as much right to be here as you do.

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
I'm surprised is all.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
That it's not me in the box?

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
[referring to the attempted assassination of Nucky] I had nothing to do with that.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
You had nothing to do with stopping it either.

Esther Randolph:
You're like an onion, Mr. Thompson, the more we peel.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I prefer to think of myself as an artichoke.

Meyer Lansky:
[noticing that Rothstein is sniffing the air] What is the matter?

Arnold Rothstein:
Manure... but what can you expect when you conduct your business in a stable?

Al Capone:
[last lines as he unexpectedly emerges from the back of the group] We been on the road for 18 hours. I need a bath, some chow; then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies, eh?

Richard Harrow:
[explaining his non-appearance the previous night] I lost track of time.

Gillian Darmody:
That happens when you're in love.

Gillian Darmody:
[seeing Gyp walking in her brothel] What an unexpected surprise!

Gyp Rosetti:
Aren't all surprises unexpected?

Noel Pearson:
What because we are poor shall we be vicious?

Bill Fallon:
[to Nucky] As cookies go, this Esther Randolph's strictly vinegar.

Gillian Darmody:
[as she is drunkenly being put in bed] I hate for you to see me like this.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Tomorrow you won't remember any of it.

Gillian Darmody:
I always remember everything... no matter what.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[to Margaret] You listen! If you want to punish yourself because your daughter got sick, that's your business, but I will not permit you to sacrifice me!

Gillian Darmody:
[last lines to Jimmy as she takes Tommy upstairs] One day soon he won't be a little boy anymore. It happens just like that.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
[Walking through a warehouse piled high with liquor] You can barely move in here.

Mickey Doyle:
You've got your friends on the Coast Guard to thank for that three ship's worth of booze: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Canadian Club.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[Making plans for Mayor Bader's birthday party as they're walking] Alcohol and cake. Call it for 9, so nobody's expecting a full dinner.

Eddie Kessler:
Hors d'oevred only. Dancing girls?

Ward Boss Fleming:
Wouldn't be much of a party otherwise, would it?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Fine then. You handle that.

Eddie Kessler:
How old is Mayor Bader?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
How the f*** do I know? What's the difference?

Eddie Kessler:
Ze candles for the cake.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Don't make a production out of it! He is the mayor of Atlantic City and not the Prince of Wales!

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[to Joseph Kennedy] Money doesn't know where it came from. It wouldn't give a damn if it did.

Joseph P. Kennedy:
[to Nucky] It's hard enough to do business as an Irish Catholic, I try my best to thwart the notion that we're all drunkards.

Arnold Rothstein:
May I offer you some free advice?

Margaret Thompson:
Is there anything more expensive in the world? [Arnold shows amusement as he eats his cake]

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[to Narcisse in a threarening fashion] You're leaving! On your feet or on your back... it's up to you entirely, so don't make a mistake.

Elias 'Eli' Thompson:
[discovering that Willie's involved with Nucky's illegal operations] Is this the life you want?

Willie Thompson:
[referring to the family] Pop, isn't this what we do?

Arnold Rothstein:
I've never done business with a woman before.

Margaret Thompson:
Well, how's you like it?

Arnold Rothstein:
[smiling] Quite the treat!

Margaret Thompson:
[to her boss and Rothstein masquerading as an investor] I's a woman's place to tend to the home. It's a man's to tend to the future.

Daughter Maitland:
Should you be gettin' home?

Chalky White:
Home is wherever you be, darlin'.

Agent Knox:
[visibly upset that Hoover has totally taken credit for his intellectual property on theories of modern crime] Why am I surprised?. Edgar was the same way in law school.

Gaston Means:
The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. I'm afraid young Mr. Hoover proves no exception.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Alright, Arnold. You're allowed to blow off steam.

Arnold Rothstein:
It's not alright. Do you think I entered into this arrangement because I value your companionship? You are a convenience, of geography and supply. You promised a quantity and a price. *You* have failed to deliver! And now, owing to your inability to manage your affairs in, *New Jersey* - a state I have little interest in or affection for -you expect me to start a war? In New York? Where things actually matter?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
I expect you to understand that Gyp Rossetti is trouble for everyone. I lost an entire convoy...

Arnold Rothstein:
[interrupting] Because of your own cavalierness! Because you run off to Manhattan at a moment's notice to rut with some showgirl!

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
You'd be wise to leave Miss Kent out of this.

Arnold Rothstein:
Why? You can't. Do you even begin to understand how weak that makes you look?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
That's a big noise from a man who is dead below the waist.

Arnold Rothstein:
I practice discretion.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
You practice bullshit! Who the f*** are you, Arnold, aside from a little weasel with a good poker face?

Billie Kent:
Eddie, you're a lifesaver! I don't know what you're doing here, but I promise I won't let you down.

Eddie Cantor:
[bitterly] Lucy Danziger. Ever heard of her?

[Bille shakes her head "no"]

Eddie Cantor:
The next one won't know a Goddamn thing about you, either.

Lucky Luciano:
How about your f***ing million dollar highway?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Must you swear every time you speak?

Lucky Luciano:
When did you become a quaker?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
[referring to Gyp] What would you do about a mad dog?

Arnold Rothstein:
Before anything else I'd find out who its master was.

Gaston Means:
What I've learned is truth is surprisingly easy to obfuscate.