Boardwalk Empire Quotes: Boardwalk Empire is an American television series created by Terence Winter that aired on HBO from September 19, 2010, to October 26, 2014. The show is set during the Prohibition era in the United States and is based on Nelson Johnson’s book “Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City.”
The series is known for its historical setting, complex characters, and its exploration of the criminal underworld during the Prohibition era. It takes place primarily in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the 1920s and early 1930s, a time when the production, sale, and distribution of alcohol were illegal in the United States.
Boardwalk Empire Quotes
1- Chalky : All a dream to begin with. Ain’t nobody ever been free.
2- Nucky : This isn’t the time for hurt feelings.
3- The Commodore : In the end we do what we have the nerve for or we disappear.
4- Nucky : If America’s not about starting over where’s the hope for any of us?
5- Nucky : What qualifies me is that for the past eleven years I have been one of the most successful bootleggers in the country.
6- Mellon : That’s what democracy gets you, bandits fighting over a cut of the loot.
7- Masseria : Everyone dies, not everyone keeps their promises.
8- Nucky : “I’ll be alone and that’s as good as dead.”
9- Richard : I lost whatever I thought love was.
10- Nucky : The only thing you can count on is blood. The blood that’s in your veins and the blood that’s in mine.
11- Van Alden : I used to believe in God, but now I don’t believe in anything at all.
12- Nucky : Why does it always need to be such a melodrama with you?
13- Will Thompson : I know the way crime eats you out from the inside. I know it and I hate it. Give me a chance sir please. Let me do something good with my life.
14- Gaston Means : Ordinary men avoid trouble. Extraordinary men turn it to their advantage. You and I have that in common.
15- Lucky Luciano : Never let the past get in the way of the future.
16- Gillian : “Success has many fathers, dear. Failure is an orphan.”
17- Arnold Rothstein : I find, you don’t really know a man, until you play cards with him.
18- Al Capone : You can rule by fear or you can rule by love. Remember that if you’re ever in charge.
19- Gillian : You can make yourself live with anything.
20- Margaret Thompson : Knowing nothing doesn’t make it better.
21- Nucky Thompson : First rule of politics, kiddo: Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
22- Jimmy Darmody: It doesn’t make a difference if you’re right or wrong; you just have to make a decision.
23- Commodore Louis Kaestner : You will be judged by what you succeed at, boy, not by what you attempt.
24- Sally : Anyone who says money doesn’t buy happiness, doesn’t know where to shop.
25- Gilian: Childhood doesn’t last. Nothing lasts.
26- Lucky Luciano : It’s the 20th century, sweetie. You wanna make a buck? Have ’em start showin’ a little skin.
27- Al Capone : We’ve been on the road for 18 hours. I need a bath and some chow. Then you and me sit down…and we talk about who dies.
31- Jimmy : Not every insult requires a response.
32- Nucky : The day repeal passes, I intend to be open for business legally, in the thirstiest country on Earth.
