Boardwalk Empire: Resignation Quotes

Here are some quotes from the second episode of Season 4 of Boardwalk Empire. Click here for the episode recap.

Nelson Van Alden/George Mueller: Mr. O’ Banion wants his money.
Mr. Hewlitt: I’ll have it tomorrow, I swear!
Van Alden/Mueller: Better not to vow, than to vow and not pay.

Emma: Samson ran off… this morning. He’s too old to hunt. Pretty much blind. Can’t even smell.
Richard Harrow: Was it quick?
Emma: He didn’t want the minister. Pretty skeptical about all that last couple of years. So I was there. Gerald was there. He liked Gerry. You would have liked him… I think.
Richard Harrow: I knew him, didn’t I?
Emma: His family runs the gravel pit out on the lake road.
Richard Harrow: I’m sorry, Emma.
Emma: Orphaned in April, married in May, pregnant in August, widowed in November. And they say nothing happens in Plover.
Emma: Richard, I didn’t think I’d ever see you again. Whatever brought you home, I’m glad. But if you don’t come back this time, don’t come back at all. I couldn’t bear it. I’m going to look for Samson.

Eddie Kessler: It is overcooked… It is inedible.
Nucky Thompson: If that’s what you think, why did you serve it?
Kessler: I do not know. I do not know why I do anything.
Nucky: Regarding Florida… do you need some help?
Kessler: Somehow I believe I am up to the task of selecting your shoes, your shirts, your suits and your delicate undergarments, as challenging as that might appear.
Nucky: Then why haven’t you?
Kessler: I am seeking reliable knowledge regarding the weather in Tampa.

Dean O’ Banion: I’m selling hydrangeas, George, not the grippe.
Van Alden/Mueller: No, sir. Allergies.
O’Banion: How’s that Viking brood of yours?
Van Alden/Mueller: Fine, sir. If there are no more deliveries…
O’Banion: How many kids you got again?
Van Alden/Mueller: Two — ages three and one.
O’Banion: Some cabbage coming your way. Our wops over in Cicero. Need some extra muscle. Make sure the voters stay informed… Keep close to Al and Frank. If they’re moving to the sticks, hat’s off. Bon voyage. If they make a peep about staying in Chicago between bites of macaroni, that’s something I should know.

Oliver Crawford: You seemed to have developed a taste for the finer things.
Chalky White: Oliver, now these two families coming together — your Samuel and my little girl. They gonna have a proper ceremony at Shiloh Baptist, that’s guaranteed. And we gonna celebrate it right here. That’s my gift to them.
Dunn Purnsley: We ain’t find that woman.
Chalky: You sidewindin’ just to tell me that.
Dunn: You be on me if I don’t.
Chalky: Sweetback, I be on you one way or the other.
Dunn: She gone.

Nucky Thompson: I come to you. I have to come to you?
Mayor Edward Bader: I’ve had my hands full…
Nucky: You thought I’d forget?
Bader: This? You’re not part of this. This is straight through the diocese.
Nucky: (to Eddie Kessler): What do you think?
Eddie Kessler: You are addressing me?
Nucky: You’re the only other person here.
Kessler: Mr. Thompson is part of everything. He’s in the sky and sea. He’s in the dreams of children at night. He is all that there is. Forever.
Bader: I just thought…
Nucky: You were wrong.

Richard Harrow: Carl Billings. Do you know him? Because he knows you.
Partner No. 3: We were partners. Me, Werner, Billings. We were gonna make a fortune together but in the end, Carl just got in the way.
Harrow: I met him on a train, heading West from New Jersey. He paid me to kill you, Werner, and the men you sent after him.
Partner No. 3: How much did he offer?
Harrow: One thousand for each of you.
Harrow: Do you have any family?
Partner No. 3: Put the bullet in. That’s what Carl’s paying you for. isn’t it?
Richard Harrow: When you see your children tonight, remember it didn’t cost you anything.

Inspector Fred Elliot: He wants to get off on the right foot and make sure you know he’s aware of how things work.
Agent Warren Knox: I just wanted to tell you man-to-man that as the new head of Prohibition enforcement in Atlantic City, I do intend to take my duties with the utmost seriousness and enforce the existing laws to the very best of my abilities.
Nucky Thompson: What?
Agent Knox: That was a joke! I was joking! I thought you might all appreciate that..

Van Alden/Mueller: I don’t like surprises.
Sigrid Mueller: Hush and quiet.
Van Alden/Mueller: What is it?
Sigrid: It is the Davenport. it is the best one…
Van Alden/Mueller: It’s too much… it all has to go back and don’t make that face. Please!

George Baxter: My old pal, Chalky
Chalky White: How you doin’, friend.
Baxter: I’m Peaches. And this is Cream…
Chalky: Bring these people another round on house.
Baxter: Oh, no, we couldn’t… but we will.
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Valentin Narcisse: … Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control. 1 Timothy 2:9,… Do you know your Bible, Mr. White?
Chalky White: Better than I know you.. What you doing in the private room, doctor?
Narcisse: What choice am I offered? The Libyan performs in your club. The Libyan serves in your club. But the Libyan may not attend your club.
Chalky: Ain’t no Libyans here.
Narcisse: You yourself are one.
Chalky: I’m from Texas… why are you here, with her?.
Narcisse: Because your employee slashed the throat of my employee savagely. Quite savagely.
Chalky: Which employee was that?
Narcisse: Mine was Dickie Pastor. Yours was… forgive me, his name?
Mrs. Pastor: He called him Dunn.
Narcisse: You called him Dunn. Dickie had a rare eye. He had his flaws. Who does not? But that rare eye for talent — I came to rely upon it and now he’s gone. What shall we do, Mr. White? What shall we do?
Chalky White: I ain’t seen your man going on three days now. Last I heard, he had doings in Newark. Axe around there.
Narcisse: That would be a waste of my time.
Chalky: You wasting it now.
Narcisse: You called him Dunn.
Chalky: Axe around Newark.
Narcisse:, I like this room. One looks down in secret and sees many things… You know what I saw? A servant pretending to be a king.

Eddie Kessler: I am resigning.
Nucky Thompson: Because of the eggs?
Kessler: For 11 years I have tended to you. I fed you. Dressed and undressed you. Nursed you in sickness. I have fought for you without concern for myself. I have watched other men come and go. Lesser men. Duplicitous men. I am still here.
Nucky: What do you want?
Kessler: Respect.
Nucky: I do respect you.
Kessler: I wish you to demonstrate it.

Emma: Just do it quick, please.
Richard Harrow: I can’t. I can’t. I’m sorry, I can’t… Emma, I don’t want anymore of it.

Van Alden/Mueller: Mr. O’Banion has me delivering flowers. I’m not involved in anything else.
Al Capone: I told Deanie, send me your biggest and brightest. He gets it half right.
Frank Capone: (noticing Van Alden’s bruised knuckles). You hurt yourself on a thorn?

Dunn Purnsley: What kind of doctor?
Chalky White: We ain’t get around to that.
Dunn: Well, listen now. Ain’t nothing he can do, and that pink tail of his came at me. He don’t give one shit what happen to him, and I know it. He just coming down here from New York so he can fish around for something…
Chalky: What going on down there? Where the motherbleeping band? Where the bleep everybody at?

Gaston Bullock Means: I’d say your Agent Knox is a hayseed of the purest variety.

Alma Pastor: I tried to scream but I couldn’t…
Nucky Thompson: Mr. Narcisse…
Valentine Narcisse: Dr. Narcisse, Mr. Thompson. I studied too long to forgo it.
Nucky: How did he know what hotel they were at?
Narcisse: You can say Dickie was resourceful.
Chalky White: My man outside tell a different tale.
Narcisse. A rapist kills and a killer lies…
Nucky;: You don’t have any proof.
Narcisse: A female of the Nordic tribe, a Libyan man, degraded, a discredit to his blood, but a Libyan nonetheless… the verdict is inescapable.
White: Say how much and let’s end it.
Narcisse: You see why I wish to deal with you?
Nucky: I don’t think I do.
Narcisse: Only kings understand each other.
Chalky: I ain’t paying a dime.
Nucky: Chalky.
Chalky: I’ll give you one minute to get your Jamaican ass…
Narcisse: I’m from Trinidad.
Chalky: I don’t give a bleep where you from…
Nucky: Ten. Ten percent of the club. The acts come back and the other problem goes away. And its ten percent..

Dunn Purnsley: Get your story all told?
Narcisse: The Negro in question…
Dunn: What’s that make you?
Narcisse: Merely another child of God.

Supervisor Elliot: I sign a lot of orders, son.
J. Edgar Hoover: I’m not your son.
Elliot: It’s a figure of speech.
Hoover: Enoch Thompson… You know OF him? Or you KNOW him?
Elliott: I am not some Bolshevik under the bed. I am a natural born U.S. Citizen and a Treasury Department official…
Agent Knox: Why can’t they just admit they’re guilty?.
Hoover: The moral dimension is absent from the criminal’s makeup. Good beginning, Jim.
Jim/Agent Knox: I won’t let you down, Edgar.

Valentin Narcisse: Dickie was a loss. A very great loss.
Mrs. Pastor: And that man?
Narcisse: Mr. Purnsley.
Mrs. Pastor: What happens to him?
Narcisse: What would you like to happen?
Mrs. Pastor: What happened to Dickie. But worse.
Narcisse: The Old Testament… a tree? Some rope, perhaps?
Mrs. Pastor: Well, why not?
Narcisse: How did Dickie know what hotel to find you in?
Mrs. Pastor: You said yourself — resourceful.
Narcisse: I was lying.