The best 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.

Freddie: "You think I can't handle Tommy Shelby?"
Polly: "You can't. I am having trouble these days and I'm twice the man you are."

You can never tell with men. They go for whoever their dcks point at and there's no changing their minds.

There's only one thing that could blind a man as smart as you, Tommy. Love.

Freddie: "If you want me out of Birmingham, it'll have to be in a wooden box."
Polly: "You lay a hand on our Ada, I'll put you in a wooden box myself!"

Men and their d-cks never cease to amaze me. John, Lizzie Stark never did a day's work vertical.
Brave is going where no man has gone before. And with Lizzie Stark, John, that's not what you'll be doing.

The end of a rope has been this man's destiny since the night he was born.

Tommy: "I'll have some men watch her house 'til the danger passes."
Polly: "'Til the danger passes. That'll be the bloody day."

Freddie: "Are you mad?"
Ada: "Yeah. Mad as hell with all of them."

We will take them before last night's beer turns to piss.

The Peaky Blinders. The vicious, merciless gangs who blind those who see and cut out the tongues of those who talk.

You see, ladies? When you're out with a Blinder, you don't have to queue.

You have your mother's common sense, but your father's devilment. I see them fighting. Let your mother win!

Polly: "Six."
John: "Six what?"
Polly: "Six questions since you walked through that door. Soon you'll have to start being the man with the answers."
John: "Why?"
Polly: "Seven."

Never give power to the big man.

You have to be as bad as them above in order to survive.

In all the world, violent men are the easiest to deal with.

America, Freddie. They've already had their revolution, you won't have to bother.

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.

I'd think of him one minute less a day. It'd be one minute less of sorrow.

"I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now."
"A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year."

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!

Every time you kiss me, it's like sunshine and whiskey.

If there's not enough coffee for everyone, there's coffee for no one.

Lip: "Hey, whoa. You really think they deserve your hard-earned money for that service?"
Frank: "Dine and dash?"
Lip: "Bite and bolt."
Frank: "Eat it and beat it?"