Boardwalk Empire

One generation passeth away, another generation cometh, but the earth abideth for ever. Ecclesiastes 1:4

“My fellow citizens: We are at war.”

“This is my place. This is where I belong.”
“Ain’t nobody ever been free.”

“All manner of dark doin’s afoot.”

You come to me in need. Anything else would be cruel.”
“How much to go home?”

“Do you know what I have to show for it? This tea set. That hideous chair. This ring.”

“Believe whatever it is gets you out of this mess.”
Res ipsa loquitur.

“Never mind! It’ll come my turn some day, and then I’ll pay you boys up; and you’ll be sorry enough for all the mean…

“If America’s not about starting over, where’s the hope for any of us?”
—Nucky Thompson

"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." - Matthew 6:34

Tell me what you want to hear

“Verily the works and words of those gone before us have become instances and examples to men of our modern day,…

There are a lot of guns in this episode that aren’t fired.

“…I don't consider him a model boy. But there were some good points about him nevertheless. He was above doing…

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I began to murmur—to hesitate—to resist.

This week, Nucky punched a woman.

Oh, Eddie.

In the season opener, Rothstein mentioned almost offhandedly, “All of man’s troubles come from his inability to sit…

“It is your duty to get rich. … The men who get rich may be the most honest men you find in the community.”