Boardwalk Empire: New York Sour Quotes

Here are some quotes from “New York Sour,” the Season 4 premiere of Boardwalk Empire.

Thug #1: What’s worth seeing around here?
Bartender: In Warsaw? We’ve got the second longest contiguous brick wall in the world…. A man from the University of Vincennes drove up and measured it.

Dickie Pastor: 2 weeks at a grand per and we talk about what comes after.
Chalky White: You carpetbagging me.
Dickie Pastor: I’m treating you square. I always do.

Eddie Kessler: All have arrived.
Nucky Thompson: Where’s he sitting?
Eddie Kessler: Where you wanted him.

Eli Thompson: We’d like to settle things. We think you do, too.
Arnold Rothstein: What makes you think that?
Eli Thompson: Why else would you show up?
Nucky Thompson: I have my territory. South to Cape May, North to Asbury Park and West to Trenton. I have the casinos, the numbers and the wire. I’m not looking for anything else.
Joe Masseria: Why I should trust any word come outta you mouth, hah?
Nucky Thompson: That’s a reasonable question.
Arnold Rothstein: How are you, Charlie?
Lucky Luciano: I’m well, A.R., thanks for axing.
Joe Masseria: (patting Luciano’s knee) He’s a good boy.

Arnold Rothstein (quoting Blaise Pascal): “All of man’s troubles come from his inability to sit quietly in a room by himself.”
Nucky Thompson: You should try it. . . . I talked to Lolly. He’s expecting you. No limit at the table.
Arnold Rothstein: I ran the odds on the way down.
Nucky Thompson: On what?
Arnold Rothstein: Whether you’d attempt to kill me.
Nucky Thompson: What’d you come up with?
Arnold Rothstein: 14-to-1. Against.

Gillian Darmody: I held Tommy in my arms when he was no bigger than a loaf of bread…
Julia Sagorsky: She was running a cathouse. Raising that child in a cathouse!
Leander Whitlock: Mrs. Darmody provided respectable lodgings for Tommy.
Judge: What exactly occurred in your residence 8 months ago, Mrs. Darmody? And under what precise circumstances was the child brought to your home? Is there anyone here willing to disclose anything approximating the truth in this matter?

Elmer Borst: Don’t you catch bootleggers?
Agent Knox: Not for other bootleggers.
Elmer Borst: Well I got a surprise for the next fox in the hen house, tell you that much.
Agent Knox: What surprise?
Elmer Borst: Back door. Pulley. Shotgun.
Agnet Knox: A booby trap?
Elmer Borst: I didn’t say it.

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Eddie Cantor: You know what the scouts say — be prepared.
Showgirl: So does my gynecologist.

Mr. Werner: I’m a middle man, that’s all. I take orders from Milwaukee. I don’t ask questions. I call a number, they do the rest. If someone gets hurts, that’s not my… you’re doing this for money. $5,000 in the safe. Take it! Walk away! I’ll never say a word. I’ll just… (crying) You don’t know me… You don’t know anything about me.
Richard Harrow: I know you’re gonna die.

Will Thompson: I do smoke.
Nucky Thompson. I know. I went to college for a year. That’s where I picked up all my bad habits.

Frank Capone: Hey Snork.
Al Capone: Don’t call me that, Frank.
Frank Capone: No, Snorky… No, really… You’re special. You are a very special boy.

Mrs. Pastor: Is this considered a good hotel in this part of town?
Dunn Purnsley: You don’t like it?
Mrs. Pastor: It’s disgusting.
Dickie Pastor: Look at this. Look what’s happening now.
Mrs. Pastor: Dickie, he made me…
Dunn Purnsley: N-n-no, no, no, no, hold the line… now, look, Dickie…
Dickie Pastor: We’re not on a first name basis. We’re not friends. You’re bleeping my wife…

Who played Dickie Pastor and his wife?

Chalky White: What you got to say for yourself?
Dunn Purnsley: She a devil, that’s all.
Nucky Thompson: Jesus Christ, his head’s practically off.
Dunn Purnsley: He earned it.
Chalky White: We find that girl. She ain’t got no coat. No shoes. No money.
Nucky Thompson: Then what?
Chalky White: Just take care of it.

Roy Phillips: Cotillions and ermine muffs. That would suit you well.
Gillian Darmody: Do you really think so?

Agent Sawicki: We’re just gonna blow this hillbilly over… It’s a 50/50 split.
Agent Knox: Is that standard?
Agent Sawicki: Just draw your weapon and follow me.
Agent Knox: (watching Sawicki dying) I’ll call it in, sir. As soon as I get a grip on myself. I don’t mind saying, this has all got me pretty rattled.

Showgirl: Everyone talked about you and Billie.
Nucky Thompson: What did they say?
Showgirl: Well, how else could she star on Broadway?
Nucky Thompson: Just give me a minute.
Eddie Kessler: Mr. Thompson has asked me to say he has been called away.
Showgirl: What am I supposed to do?
Eddie Kessler: You are supposed to leave.

Richard Harrow: Emma.. I’ve come home.