“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.” – Thomas Shelby
“There is God, and there are the Peaky Blinders. This is Sparkhill, we’re in Small Heath. We are much, much closer at hand than God.” – Thomas Shelby
“Today it will be me dead. Or you. But, whoever it is, he’ll wake up in hell tomorrow.” – Thomas Shelby
“A man needs to prove he is better than me, rather than show me his birth certificate.” – Thomas Shelby
“I get my suits on the house or the house burns down” – Thomas Shelby
“I imagine being shot by a woman hurts the same as being shot by a man. Just bit more shameful.” – Thomas Shelby
“Those of you who are last will soon be first. And those of you who are downtrodden will rise up.” – Thomas Shelby
“May you be in heaven a full half hour before the devil knows you’re dead.” – Thomas Shelby
“Sometimes the women have to take over. Like in the war.” – Thomas Shelby
“Brave is going where no man has gone before.” – Thomas Shelby
“Conviction introduces emotion, which is the enemy of oratory.” – Thomas Shelby
“Killing a man affects the heart.” – Thomas Shelby
“I will continue until I find a man that I can’t defeat.” – Thomas Shelby
“Intelligence is a very valuable thing, innit , my friend? And usually it comes far too fucking late.” – Thomas Shelby
“I’m going to do a good thing. Whenever I do a good thing, innocent people get hurt.” – Thomas Shelby
“Fortune drops something valuable into your lap, you don’t just dump it on the bank of the cut.” – Thomas Shelby
“Everyone’s a whore, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves. “ – Thomas Shelby
“People are loyal to those who pay their wages.” – Thomas Shelby
“You can change what you do, but you can’t change what you want. ” – Thomas Shelby
“Five for peace, two for truce, one abstention. Let’s get on with the war.” – Thomas Shelby
“I can charm dogs. Gypsy witchcraft. And those I can’t charm I can kill with my own hands.” – Thomas Shelby
“For those who make the rules, there are no rules.” – Thomas Shelby
“You don’t parley when you’re on the back foot.” – Thomas Shelby
“I imagine being shot by a woman hurts the same as being shot by a man. Just a bit more shameful.” – Thomas Shelby
“Whisky’s good proofing water. Tells you who’s real and who isn’t.” – Thomas Shelby
“Sometimes death is a kindness.” – Thomas Shelby
“There’s a part of me that is unfamiliar to myself. And I keep finding myself there.” – Thomas Shelby
“Lies travel faster than the truth.” – Thomas Shelby
“All religion is a foolish answer to a foolish question.” – Thomas Shelby
“Fortune drops something valuable into your lap, you don’t just dump it on the bank of the cut.” – Thomas Shelby
“You strike when your enemy is weak. ” – Thomas Shelby
“You know, gentlemen, there is hell, and there is another place below hell.” – Thomas Shelby
“Never give power to the big man.” – Alfie Solomons
“He’ll wake up. Granted he won’t have any teeth left but he will be a wiser man for it” – Alfie Solomons
“He’ll wake up. Granted he won’t have any teeth left but he will be a wiser man for it.” – Alfie Solomons
“The problem, right, between rum and gin, is that gin, right, it leads to the melancholy. Whereas rum incites violence, it also allows you to be liberated from your self-doubt.” – Alfie Solomons
“Intelligence is a very valuable thing, innit, my friend? And usually it comes far too f*cking late.” – Alfie Solomons
“Life is so much easier to deal with when you are dead.” – Alfie Solomons
“So is it all purely for bad blood, is it, Tommy?” – Alfie Solomons
“Big fucks small always, actually.” – Alfie Solomons
“Every man, he craves certainty.” – Alfie Solomons
“I once carried out my own personal form of stigmata on an Italian. I pushed his face up against a trench and shoved a six-inch nail up his fucking nose and I hammered it home with a duckboard. It was fucking biblical, mate.” – Alfie Solomons
“You’re gypsies, right? So what do you live in, a fucking tent or caravan?” – Alfie Solomons
The Sopranos was brought to life by HBO and Chase Films, and was shot in New Jersey. In addition to winning many awards (including 21 Emmy Awards, 5 Golden Globes), The Sopranos has been shown by many of the American TV series writers as the best TV series ever.