Peaky Blinders Quotes

You don't parley when you're on the back foot.

You must not let your personal history cloud your judgement.

Agent Grace Burgess believes that the weapons were stolen by the IRA (Irish Republican Army) group, which killed her father.

In pubs sometimes people say things and sometimes it’s the whisky talking. It’s hard to tell which is which.

— So I'd be solving a problem for you.
— And I'd be winning you that medal.
— If I get a medal, I will have your initials engraved on my backside.
— Oh. My initials on your backside. That's quite an image.

One thing I have learned is that you and I are opposites, but also just the same. Like an image in a mirror. We hate people. And they in turn hate us. And fear us. Before the day is over, your heart will be broken just the same as mine. Men like us, Mr Shelby, will always be alone. And that love we get we will have to pay for.

I read somewhere that you Paddies started fighting amongst yourselves, now. The King offers you a peace treaty and you start a war about it. That's funny, don't you think? A war about peace.

Thomas talks the Irish rebels.

Intelligence is a very valuable thing, innit, my friend? And usually it comes far too fucking late.

If you're going to use it {the gun}, point that thing at my head. That's where the trouble is. Gut-shot soldiers take half a day to die. I've seen them. Walking around with their guts in their arms like dirty washing.

God does not care if you live in a slum, or in a mansion. God doesn't care if you are rich, or you are poor...

— You know, there are days <...> that I really wish I'd let you take that bullet in France.
— Believe me, there are nights I wish you had.

— Gentlemen, this is your cousin. Polly's son, Michael.
— Pleased to meet you. John.
— I'm Arthur. You've already met me. I used to throw you out of the window, so John could catch you.
— I used to put you in a shoebox and kick you down Watery Lane.

Michael was taken from his mother when he was little. His first meeting with his brothers many years later.

The only way to guarantee peace is by making the prospect of war seem hopeless.

To me, politics is deliberately making things better for some people by deliberately making them worse for others.

Speak. God and Aunt Polly are listening.

Aunt Polly and Thomas Shelby at church.

She’s in the past. The past is not my concern. The future is no longer my concern, either.

— The one minute. The soldier's minute. In a battle, that's all you get. One minute of everything at once. And anything before is nothing. Everything after nothing. Nothing in comparison to that one minute.
— Didn't you get enough minutes over there?