“Deadwood” is a critically acclaimed American Western television series that aired on HBO from 2004 to 2006. Created, produced, and largely written by David Milch, the show is set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before and after the area’s annexation by the Dakota Territory.
The series blends historical figures and events with fictional ones, creating a gritty and realistic portrayal of the lawlessness, greed, and violence of the American frontier. The large ensemble cast features characters such as former lawman Seth Bullock (played by Timothy Olyphant), saloon owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), and entrepreneur and brothel owner Cy Tolliver (Powers Boothe).
Deadwood Quotes
Al Swearengen: “Announcin’ your plans is a good way to hear god laugh.”
Bill Hickock :”If irritating me is the jackpot, you got the job done.”
Al Swearengen: “Wave a penny under the Jew’s nose; if they got living breath in them, brings them right around.”
Al Swearengen: “Welcome to fucking Deadwood! It can be combative.”
“This day saw many advances, none miraculous.”
Al Swearengen: “If I bleat when I speak it’s because I just got f**kin’ fleeced.”
Wild bill to Charlie : “Can’t you let me go to hell the way I want to”.
Jane : “I’ll have further promise that you won’t forage in my remains after I’m dead, as you obviously don’t scruple from that type of sick behavior.”
“I’d rather try touching the moon than take on a whore’s thinking.”
Al Swearengen: Pain or damage don’t end the world. Or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man… and give some back.
“God rest the souls of that poor family… and pussy’s half price for the next 15 minutes”
Hearst : “Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.”
E.B. Farnum : “Puberty may bring you to understand what we take for mother-love is really murderous hatred and a desire for revenge.”
Al Swearengen: “You can’t cut the throat of every cocksucker whose character it would improve.””
Wild Bill Hickok: “Some goddamn point a man’s due to stop arguing with his-self and feeling twice the goddamn fool he knows he is ’cause he can’t be something he tries to be every goddamn day without once getting to dinnertime and fucking it up. I don’t want to fight it anymore, understand me Charlie? And I don’t want you pissing in my ear about it. Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?””
“They’re hypocrite cocksuckers. And the fuckin’ lyin’ instruments and tactics they use to fuck people up the ass can be turned against them.”
Trixie: “Tread lightly who lives in hope of pussy. “
Bill Hickock : “What slows me down is thinking about freezing my balls off in a creek for the cocksuckers I’d lose the gold to at poker.”
Calamity Jane :”Every day takes figuring out all over again how to fucking live.”
Al Swearengen: My oath on this; everyday that the widow sits on her ass in New York City, looks west at sunset, and thinks to herself “God bless you ignorant cocksuckers in Deadwood who strive mightily and have little money, to add to my ever increasing fortune,” she’ll be safe from the whiles of Al Swearengen.
Al Swearengen : “In life you have to do a lot of things you don’t f**king want to do. Many times, that’s what the f**k life is… one vile f**king task after another.”
Wild bill to Charlie : “can’t you let me go to hell the way I want to”.
Reverend H.W. Smith: “Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted, to understand, than to be understood, to love, than to be loved… and the rest I forget.”
Al Swearengen : “The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man… and give some back.”
Doc Cochran: “I see as much misery outta them movin’ to justify theirselves as them that set out to do harm.”
Trixie: “Tread lightly who lives in hope of pussy.”
Al Swearengen : “You see me empty, sir, do not pause and inquire. Simply assume and refill.”
Calamity Jane: “And you not only a f***ing pain in the balls, Charlie, but also the strangest f***ing person I ever met.”
Al Swearengen : “Welcome to f**king Deadwood!”
Hugo Jarry: “Self-interest is immutable, but its dictates vary daily.”
