Here are the best quotes from Peaky Blinders, a British historical drama television series, broadcast by the BBC in the United Kingdom, created by Steven Knight and also distributed by Netflix in several countries. Its first broadcast was in 2013 and is still in force pending its fifth season.
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The image shows Cillian Murphy, an actor who plays the main protagonist, Thomas Shelby. Tim Cornbill, via Wikimedia Commons.
"What made you think I'd go to bed with you after a whiskey and light conversation?" -Grace.
-We are all prostitutes, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves. -Thomas Shelby.
-There is no rest for me in this world. Maybe in the next one. -Thomas Shelby.
-Instinct is a curious thing. -Aunt Polly.
-Lies spread faster than the truth. -Thomas Shelby.
-You know, gentlemen. There is hell, and there is another place under hell. -Thomas Shelby.
-In bars, sometimes people say things, and other times it's whiskey talking. It is difficult to discern who is speaking. -Thomas Shelby.
-You never know with men. They go wherever their penises point at them and there is no way to change their mind. -Aunt Polly.
-Men do not have the strategic intelligence to carry out a war between families. Men are less good at keeping their secrets with their lies. -Aunt Polly.
-When you are dead, you are free. -Aunt Polly.
-One attacks when the enemy is weak. -Thomas Shelby.
-The end of a rope has been the destiny of this man since the night he was born. -Inspector Campbell.
-In France I got used to seeing men die. I never got used to seeing horses die. -Thomas Shelby.
-Who wants to be in heaven, huh? Who wants to be in heaven when you could be sending men to fucking hell? -Arthur Shelby.
-London is just smoke and trouble. -Esme.
-Fill it up and go to hell. -Alfie Solomons.
-I realize that the most obvious vices are the easiest to resist. -Chester Campbell.
-All religion is a stupid answer to a stupid question. -Thomas Shelby.
-Good taste is for those who cannot afford sapphires. -Thomas Shelby.
"There is only one thing that can blind a man as intelligent as you, Tommy." Love. -Aunt Polly.
-Are you a prostitute? Because if you are not, you are in the wrong place. -Thomas Shelby.
-Valentine is going where no man has gone before. -Aunt Polly.
-He will wake up. I recognize that although he will no longer have teeth, he will be a wiser man for it. -Alfie Solomons.
-Intelligence is something very valuable, isn't it my friend? And it's usually too fucking late. -Alfie Solomons.
-I don't pay for the suits. My suits are paid for by the house, or the house goes up in flames. -Thomas Shelby.
-Sir, with all due respect… Thomas Shelby is a murderer, a half-breed, a gangster. -Inspector Campbell.
-You can change what you do, but you can't change what you want. -Thomas Shelby.
-Around the world, violent men are the easiest to deal with. -Irene O'Donnell.
-When there are no rules, women take office. -Tatiana Petrovna.
-If you pull the trigger, okay, you'll pull the trigger for a fucking honorable reason. As an honorable man, not as a fucking citizen who doesn't understand the twisted way our world works, my friend. -Alfie Solomons.
-Killing a man affects the heart. -Chester Campbell.
-You have the common sense of your mother, but the evil of your father. I can see them fighting. Let your mother win. -Aunt Polly.
-I can charm dogs. Gypsy witchcraft. And those that I can't enchant, I can kill with my bare hands. -Thomas Shelby.
-Babies have no principles. -Thomas Shelby.
-The ambition for respectability does not make you a saint. -Father John Hughes.
-One thing I have learned is that you and I are opposites, but also equal. Like the reflection of a mirror. We hate people, and in return they hate us and fear us. -Chester Campbell.
-Don't come here, you sit in my chair and tell me I'm losing my war against fucking spaghetti. -Alfie Solomons.
-I learned long ago to hate my enemies, but I have never loved any before. -Thomas Shelby.
-You have to get what you want through your own means. -Thomas Shelby.
-I don't need a knife to stop telling the secrets that were entrusted to me. It is a matter of honor. -Thomas Shelby.
-You told me about her like a gentleman, now kindly behave like a gangster again. -May Carleton.
-The only way to guarantee peace is to make the expectation of war seem inevitable. -Thomas Shelby.
-No one works with me. People work for me. -Billy Kimber.
-Sometimes women have to take office. Like in war. -Aunt Polly.
-Don't mess with the Peaky Blinders. -Aunt Polly.
-You told me once that men like us can never be loved. She loves me and all you got was a bullet. -Thomas Shelby.
-If you apologize once, you will do it again and again. It's like taking bricks out of the wall of your fucking house. -Thomas Shelby.
-She's in the past. The past is not my problem. And the future is not one of my concerns either. -Thomas Shelby.
-The whiskey is a good test. It allows you to differentiate who is real from who is not. -Tommy Shelby.
-A good man sometimes needs to hold on. -Thomas Shelby.
-I just shot him in the head… He was looking at me the wrong way. -Thomas Shelby.
-If you need to go to the bathroom or something, you can go. -Alfie Solomons.
-If that was heaven, what would I be doing here? -Charlie Strong.
"I've heard really bad things, very bad things about you Birmingham." -Alfie Solomons.
-An agreement is not the same thing as a guarantee. -Chester Campbell.
-I hope you can be in heaven for a full half hour before the devil realizes that you are dead. -Grace.
-Tomorrow we will be one of the two dead. But whoever that person is, they will wake up tomorrow in hell. -Thomas Shelby.
-Men and their penises never cease to amaze me. -Aunt Polly.
-I imagine being shot by a woman hurts the same as being shot by a man. It's just more embarrassing. -Thomas Shelby.
-Rum is for leisure and for having sex, isn't it? Now, whiskey, that's for business. -Thomas Shelby.