“All religion is a foolish answer to a foolish question.”
- Thomas Shelby
“In all the world, violent men are the easiest to deal with.”
- Irene O’Donnell
“Don’t fuck with the Peaky Blinders.”
- Aunt Polly
“Sir, with the greatest respect… Thomas Shelby is a murdering, cutthroat, mongrel, gangster.”
- Inspector Campbel
“Intelligence is a very valuable thing, innit, my friend. And usually it comes far too fucking late.”
- Alfie Solomons
“You strike when your enemy is weak. ”
- Thomas Shelby
"Men always tell their troubles to a barmaid”.
- Grace
“Lies travel faster than the truth.”
- Thomas Shelby
"He’ll wake up. Granted he won’t have any teeth left but he will be a wiser man for it."
- Alfie Solomons
"In all the world the only thing that interests me is the truth."
- Chester Campbell
“Whisky’s good proofing water. Tells you who’s real and who isn’t.”
- Tommy Shelby
“Men and their cocks never cease to amaze me.”
- Aunt Polly
“Rule one, you don’t punch above your weight. ”
- Polly Gray
"Who wants to be in heaven, eh? Who wants to be in heaven when you can be sending men to fuc**ng hell?"
- Arthur Shelby
“You don’t parley when you’re on the back foot.”
- Thomas Shelby
“Everyone’s a whore, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves.”
- Tommy Shelby
“Fill it out. Fuck off.”
- Alfie Solomons
"I can charm dogs. Gypsy witchcraft. And those I can’t charm I can kill with my own hands."
- Tommy Shelby
“I just put a bullet in his head…. He looked at me the wrong way.”
- Tommy Shelby
"You can change what you do, but you can’t change what you want."
- Thomas Shelby
"You have your mother’s common sense but your father’s devilment. I see them fighting. Let your mother win."
- Polly Gray
"In the end, it’s God who pulls that f*cking trigger anyway. We don’t get to decide who lives and who dies, Finn. Not us. You just have to flick a switch."
- Arthur Shelby
“Fortune drops something valuable into your lap, you don’t just dump it on the bank of the cut.”
- Thomas Shelby
"Everyone’s a whore, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves."
- Thomas Shelby
"You can change what you do, but you can’t change what you want."
- Thomas Shelby