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Boardwalk Empire Quotes

“Al Capone: You think I'm stupid?

Nelson Van Alden: No successful man is stupid.”
— Al Capone, Boardwalk Empire, Season 5: Cuanto
Tagged: Stupid, Success
“Everything that crawls is gonna pay!”
— Al Capone, Boardwalk Empire, Season 4: The North Star
Tagged: Threats
“All of man's troubles come from his inability to sit quietly in a room, by himself.”
— Arnold Rothstein, Boardwalk Empire, Season 4: New York Sour
Tagged: meditation, Solipsism, Troubles
“You have to understand: No matter what you think of me, there's no walking away. It doesn't work like that. I do it to them, or they do it to me. And that's all there is.”
— Nucky Thompson, Boardwalk Empire, Season 3: The Pony
Tagged: walk away, eat or be eaten
“Gyp Rosetti: You laughin' at me?

Gillian Darmody: Why not? Everybody else does.”
— Gillian Darmody, Boardwalk Empire, Season 3: Margate Sands
Tagged: Laughing, Mocking, Paranoia
“It's the 20th century, sweetie. You wanna make a buck? Have 'em start showin' a little skin.”
— Lucky Luciano, Boardwalk Empire, Season 3: Ging Gang Goolie
Tagged: Porn, 20th Century, prostitution
“Knowing nothing doesn't make it better.”
— Margaret Thompson, Boardwalk Empire, Season 3: The Milkmaid's Lot
Tagged: Amnesia
“Margaret Thompson: I'm pregnant. It's yours. You can do what you choose. Plans or no, I won't hold you to them. But say what you want, as long as it's the truth.

Owen Sleater: The truth? [pause] Well, I'd like it to be a boy.”
— Margaret Thompson, Boardwalk Empire, Season 3: A Man, A Plan...
Tagged: Pregnancy, child custody, it's a boy
“We got a deal, but just so we're clear, my ice box is filled with pieces of fellas who tried to fuck me over.”
— Manny Horvitz, Boardwalk Empire, Season 2: Battle of the Century
Tagged: Threats, Murder
“You will be judged by what you succeed at, boy, not by what you attempt.”
— Commodore Louis Kaestner, Boardwalk Empire, Season 2: 21
Tagged: Success, Trying
“Nucky Thompson: Mr. Rothstein made his bed.

Jimmy Darmody: Now you fellas can die in it.”
— Nucky Thompson, Boardwalk Empire, Season 1: The Emerald City
Tagged: Threats
“Eli Thompson: The whole thing's a game, isn't it? So easy for you. Well, I'll keep at it. Maybe one day I'll lie as good as you.

Nucky Thompson: It's 'lie as well as me,' you dolt. You wanna be taken seriously, then learn how to fuckin' speak.”
— Lawrence Konner, Boardwalk Empire, Season 1: Nights in Ballygran
Tagged: Grammar
“Gillian Darmody: I was under the impression that you could do anything.

Nucky Thompson: I'm not God, Gillian.

Gillian Darmody: Now you tell me.”
— Nucky Thompson, Boardwalk Empire, Season 1: Broadway Limited
Tagged: God, omnipotence
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