Quotes by Thomas Shelby

May: "May Carleton. I breed racehorses and train them. What is it you do?"
Thommy: "I rarely answer questions is what I do."

The soldier's minute. In a battle that's all you get. One minute of everything at once. And anything before it nothing. Everything after, nothing. Nothing in comparison to that one minute.

Grace: "I had the phone put in. It's in the back."
Tommy: "If we knew someone else who had a phone, we could call them."

Whisky's good proofing water. Tells you who's real and who isn't.

You don't parley when you're on the back foot. We'll strike a blow back first.

Freddie Thorne: "What kind of a list would have the name of a communist and the name of a bookmaker side by side?"
Thomas Shelby: "Perhaps it's a list of men who give false hope to the poor."

All religion is a foolish answer to a foolish question.

Grace Burgess: "You think I am a wh-re?"
Tommy Shelby: "Everyone's a wh-re, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves."

Sometimes it lasts all night. And I lie here and I listen to the shovels, and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray. I hope. And sometimes it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.