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Steven Knight Quotes

Total quotes: 116
“Trust requires a little time.”
— James Keziah Delaney, Taboo, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Time, Trust, Wisdom, Truth
“The demand for flags is always high in times of war.”
— Edgar Dumbarton, Taboo, Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: War, Flags, Patriotism, Conflict, Demand
“One thing Africa did not cure is that I still love you.”
— James Keziah Delaney, Taboo, Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: Africa, Traveling, Love, romance, Relationships, Confession
“We are all owned, and we have all owned others.”
— James Keziah Delaney, Taboo, Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: Ownership, Deep, scary
“I learnt long ago to hate my enemies, but I’ve never loved one before.”
— Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 1: Episode 6
Tagged: learnt, enemies, Hate, Love, Lessons
“There’s only one thing can blind a man as smart as you, Tommy. Love.”
— Polly Gray, Peaky Blinders, Series 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Blind, Smart, Love
“Everyone’s a whore, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves.”
— Tommy Shelby,
Tagged: Whore, sell, parts, ourselves
“Are you a whore? Because if you’re not, you’re in the wrong place.”
— Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 1: Episode 1
Tagged: Whore, wrong place, Questions
“You send me 12 men, I will return you 12 sets of testicles in a bag, and we can watch your little whores devour them together, before I chop off your trotters and boil them.”
— James Keziah Delaney, Taboo, Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: swear, Cursing, testicles, Whores, violent, scary, graphic, Threats, Warning
“People who do not know me soon come to understand that I do not have any sense.”
— James Keziah Delaney, Taboo, Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: Sense, Senseless, crazy, Stupid, dumb, thoughtless
“There is enough treachery already surrounding us that there is no need for us to add to it.”
— James Keziah Delaney, Taboo, Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: treachery, Drama, tension, surrounding
“The one minute. The soldier’s minute. In a battle, that’s all you get. One minute of everything at once. And anything before is nothing. Everything after, nothing. Nothing in comparison to that one minute.”
— Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Soldier, Battle, Nothing, one minute
“You have your mother’s common sense but your father’s devilment. I see them fighting. Let your mother win.”
— Polly Gray, Peaky Blinders, Series 1: Episode 1
Tagged: mother, father, Common Sense, devilment, Fighting, Winner, Loser
“You can never tell with men. They go for whoever their dicks point at, and there’s no changing their minds.”
— Polly Gray, Peaky Blinders, Series 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Men, can't tell, Sex, no changing their minds
“I can charm dogs. Gypsy witchcraft. And those I can’t charm I can kill with my own hands.”
— Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 3: Episode 2
Tagged: charm, Gypsy, Kill, hands
“Don’t come in here and sit there in my chair and tell me that I’m losing my war to a fucking wop.”
— Alfie Solomons, Peaky Blinders, Series 2: Episode 2
Tagged: Loss, Chair, War
“You’ve told me about her, like a gentleman, now kindly behave like a gangster again.”
— May Carleton, Peaky Blinders, Series 2: Episode 5
Tagged: Gentleman, Gangster, behave, act
“One thing I have learned is that you and I are opposites, but also just the same. Like an image in a mirror. We hate people. And they in turn hate us. And fear us.”
— C.I. Chester Campbell, Peaky Blinders, Series 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Learned, Opposites, Simile Examples, Mirror, Hate, Fear
“It has always been about the explosion. From the beginning. The bang. The outrage.”
— Father John Hughes, Peaky Blinders, Series 3: Episode 6
Tagged: Explosion, Big Bang, Beginning, Outrage
“I hear that you've got Italians, mate. You got a kestrel for them and all?”
— Alfie Solomons, Peaky Blinders, Series 4: Dangerous
Tagged: Italians, Kestrel , Questions
“'Cause your people, your class, and my religion is quite similar actually, because you just cannot wash it out, right, because it, it come out your mother's tits.”
— Alfie Solomons, Peaky Blinders, Series 4: Dangerous
Tagged: People, Class, Religion, similar
“Fucking hell, it smells of pig round here, don't it? Definitely not kosher.”
— Alfie Solomons, Peaky Blinders, Series 4: Dangerous
Tagged: Smell, Pig, kosher, Gross
“Thomas Shelby: Stay and watch the fight, Alfie.

Alfie Solomons: No, you're all right. I already know who wins, don't I?”
— Alfie Solomons, Peaky Blinders, Series 4: The Company
Tagged: Watch the Fight, Wins, Fighting
“To make sure your dog obeys you, you have to show it the stick once in a while.”
— C.I. Chester Campbell, Peaky Blinders, Series 2: Episode 5
Tagged: dog, Training, obeys, Stick, Hitting
“I don’t need a knife to stop me telling secrets given in confidence. It is a matter of honor.”
— Esme Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 2: Episode 1
Tagged: Knife, Secrets, Confidence, Honor
“Those of you who are last will soon be first. And those of you who are downtrodden will rise up.”
— Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 2: Episode 1
Tagged: Last, first, Rise Up, Downtrodden, inspiration
“I’m not a traitor to my class. I am just an extreme example of what a working man can achieve.”
— Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 4: Dangerous
Tagged: Traitor, Class, Extreme, working man, Achieve
“Aunt Pol, when I was Michael’s age I’d killed a hundred men and seen a thousand die. If you want to scare that kid away forever, carry on how you’re going. If you want him to stay, let him come.”
— John Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 2: Episode 3
Tagged: killed, Death, Die, scare, Carry on, come, Stay
“Big fucks small always, actually. There is a fight going on out there between big and small. Big will fuck small.”
— Alfie Solomons, Peaky Blinders, Series 4: The Company
Tagged: big, small, Fight
“Right, he’s the oldest, you’re the thickest. I’m told the boss is called Tommy and I’m guessing that’s you cos’ you’re looking me up and down like I’m a fucking tart.”
— Billy Kimber, Peaky Blinders, Series 1: Episode 2
Tagged: oldest, thickest, boss
“He’ll wake up. Granted he won’t have any teeth left but he will be a wiser man for it.”
— Alfie Solomons, Peaky Blinders, Series 2: Episode 3
Tagged: Wake Up, wiser, missing teeth, wise man
“You know, gentlemen, there is hell, and there is another place below hell.”
— Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 3: Episode 2
Tagged: Gentlemen, Hell, below hell
“Today, it will be me dead or you. But whoever it is, he’ll wake up in hell tomorrow.”
— Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 2: Episode 6
Tagged: dead, Death, Hell, Today, tomorrow
“The only way to guarantee peace is by making the prospect of war seem hopeless.”
— Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 3: Episode 2
Tagged: Guarantee, Peace, prospect, War, hopeless
“If you apologize once, you do it again and again and again. Like taking bricks out of the wall of your fucking house.”
— Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 3: Episode 2
Tagged: Apologize, again and again, simile exampls, Bricks
“Men don’t have the strategic intelligence to conduct a war between families. Men are less good at keeping secrets out of their lies.”
— Polly Gray, Peaky Blinders, Series 4: Dangerous
Tagged: Men, strategic, Intelligence, War, families, Lives, Secret
“Alfie Solomons: Come on, Tommy, there is an honorable reason now to pull that trigger, so what...

Thomas Shelby: Alfie! Alfie, look at me!

Alfie Solomons: Fucking get on with it!”
— Alfie Solomons, Peaky Blinders, Series 4: The Company
Tagged: trigger, honorable, Gun, shoot
“Intelligence is a very valuable thing, innit, my friend? And usually it comes far too fucking late.”
— Alfie Solomons, Peaky Blinders, Series 2: Episode 2
Tagged: Intelligence, Valuable, late, Timing
“I don’t pay for suits. My suits are on the house or the house burns down.”
— Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 1: Episode 3
Tagged: suits, on the house, burns down
“She’s in the past. The past is not my concern. The future is no longer my concern, either.”
— Tommy Shelby, Peaky Blinders, Series 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Past, Future, Not a concern
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