Peaky Blinders is a six-season Netflix drama surrounding a notorious family-run gang that takes place in the early 1900s in England. Throughout the show, viewers get to know the Shelby family and see the tough decisions their leader, Tommy Shelby, faces in the midst of war, violence, and economic uncertainty.
Here’s the scoop on the best quotes from Peaky Blinders!
1. “Do you know it was a fine speech you made in there, about this company believing in equal rights for women. But when it comes to it, you don’t listen to a word we say.” -Polly
2. “I am my own revolution.” -Tommy
3. “Mr. Shelby, your sins are legend.” -Mother Superior
4. “You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you take.” -Lizzie
5. “Did you know that madness sets you free?” -Tatiana
6. “You are stepping into a world you don’t understand.” -Tommy
7. “I’ve never seen you read the paper. I’ve only seen you light fires with them.” -Ada
8. “There’s only one thing that can blind a man as smart as you Tommy. Love.” -Pol
9. “Should I ask how your day was, like a good wife?” -Grace
10. “But Pol, Michael is alive. He’s in England. And I know where he lives, I went there.” -Tommy
11. “People are loyal to those who pay their wages.” -Tommy
12. “I’ve thought about it. Made a decision. I ain’t f*cking going nowhere.” -Arthur
13. “I thought it would make you different. But it doesn’t seem to change you. Nothing seems to change you.” -May Carlton
14. “Behave myself or f*cking what?” -Polly
15. “No one’s gonna hang you, Tommy. You’re gonna hang yourself.” -Ada
16. “To be born in the year 1930, where everything will be changed for the better.” -Polly
17. “My initials on your backside. That’s quite an image.” -Tommy
18. “You know, there are days when I hear about the cuttings and the beatings that I really wish I’d let you take that bullet in France.” -Freddie
19. “God help those who stand in our way.” -Campbell
20. “Are you a whore? Because if you’re not, you’re in the wrong place.” -Tommy
21. “What makes you think I would’ve gone to bed with you after one whiskey and some conversation?” -Grace
22. “But you’re young. So you think what we do is all right. It’s not all right. People get hurt.” -Tommy
23. “Why should the boys have all the fun?” -Polly
24. “Until this business is settled, we stay together.” -Tommy
25. “Nice women don’t do that sort of thing.” -Lizzie
26. “I know who I am, Linda. I know who I am, and I’m all right with it.” -Arthur
27. “Oi! I’m a Shelby, too, you know. Put my f*cking film back on.” -Ada
28. “For a woman who’s had a hard life with men, you’re still full of romance, eh?” -Tommy
29. “You break the law, but you obey the rules. Why?” -Tatiana
30. “I know you like to be asked properly. Grace, can I have this dance?” -Tommy
31. “F*ck sounds funny coming from her.” -Lizzie
32. “I’m back. And there’s gonna be nobody dipping their hand with me here, not unless they want it cut off.” -Polly
33. “We are the people and we’ve had enough.” -Tommy
34. “It’s all gonna change, Esme.” -John
35. “Some part of you wants me still. And sure as hell, some part of me wants you still. And not just that part that…. Some part of my soul.” – Campbell
36. “Grace, look at me. F*ck these people, eh. F*ck ‘em. I need you to be all right. I need you, Grace. I need you.” -Tommy
37. “Inside every man, there is a devil.” -Tatiana
38. “What I didn’t understand until today is when you’re dead already…you’re free.” -Polly
39. “I swear to God, if I spend another day in that village, I’m going to blow it up with dynamite. Probably blow my hands off with it, but it will be worth it.” -Michael
40. “You know, gentlemen, there is hell and there is another place below hell. I will remember everything. And forget nothing.” -Tommy
41. “So what I want to know is, why are you changing things?” -John
42. “Lies travel faster than the truth.” -Tommy
43. “No society party in London is complete without a gangster for the girls to go giddy for.” -Ada
44. “Today, they’re gonna test us.” -Tommy
45. “You’re unlike any man I’ve ever met.” -May Carlton
46. “Well I drink to you, Tom. You mad b*stard.” -Billy
47. “I can’t be bothered with this sh*t.” -Lizzie
48. “Me and Arthur can’t write it down… ‘cause they haven’t invented the f*cking words.” -Tommy
49. “This family does everything open.” – Polly
50. “I think, so you don’t have to.” -Tommy
51. “I know there’s business on your mind. And I know there always will be.” -Grace
52. “No fraternizing with the foreigners.” -Arthur
53. “We own the city, but we don’t need to rub everybody’s noses in it.” -Polly
54. “Every man is a soldier in this army.” -Tommy
55. “And who’s the father, have you managed to narrow it down?” -Linda
56. “I did not betray my f*cking family!” -Michael
57. “They didn’t fight, so they’re different. They stay kids.” – Tommy
58. “If you’ve come to talk about redemption, you’re talking to the wrong person.” -Lizzie
59. “You have no home until you tell me the truth.” -Polly
60. “My aunt only employs the best whores.” -Tatiana
61. “F*ck them.” -John
62. “Whose f*cking idea was it that I go on holiday, eh?” -Tommy
63. “I already know who the father is. But we’ve had enough shocks for one day.” -Polly
64. “I’m Arthur. You’ve already met me. I used to throw you out the window so John could catch you.” -Arthur
65. “I just told you…I make up my own mind.” -Michael
66. “For the cause Ada, the good old cause.” -Tommy
67. “When I was Michael’s age, I’d killed a hundred men and seen a thousand die.” -John
68. “You’re not an artillery shell, Danny. You’re a man.” -Tommy
69. “God damn you for soiling your uniforms!” -Campbell
70. “Sorry, I misunderstood your intention when you pushed me against the wall.” -Polly
71. “These new coppers over from Belfast, breaking into our homes and interfering with our women. We don’t think our king would want to see that happening. So we’re lighting fires to raise the alarm.” – Tommy
72. “That’s his a** that looks like you, Arthur.” -John
73. “You think I haven’t got enough on? The war is done. Shut the door on it.” -Tommy
74. “But you love me more than you fear them, right?” -Ada
75. “After 35 years dealing with animals like you, I can tell by sniffing the air whether or not you’re lying.” – Campbell
76. “No Catholic girl would enter a church and forget to make the sign of a cross.” – Tommy
77. “Soon you’re going to have to start being the man with the answers.” -Polly
78. “I betrayed you, but only in my heart.” -Michael
79. “I could never understand… why people like us only had bread and f*cking lard. And I wanted to be different. That’s what I wanted.” -Tommy
80. “It’s men like you we’re fighting.” -Ada
81. “Her name is Charlotte, and Michael cannot breathe if he does not talk to her every two hours.” -Polly
82. “We own the ropes. Who’s gonna hang us now, eh?” -Tommy
83. “In Ireland, my singing made them cry and stopped them from fighting.” – Grace
84. “I have already betrothed you. So if you back out now, there’s gonna be one f*cking mighty war breaking out here that’s gonna make the Somme look like a f*cking tea party.” -Tommy
85. “I don’t want a conversation. I want an address. Until I have that, haven’t got anything to say.” -Polly
86. “The only difference between you and me Freddie, is that sometimes, my horses stand a chance of winning.” -Tommy
87. “I was dead in the noose and then I was saved, so everything from now on is extra.” -Polly
88. “The bullet was mine. I never got a chance to fire it.” -Tommy
89. “We live somewhere between life and death, waiting to move on. And in the end, we accept it. We shake hands with devils, and we walk past them.” -Polly
90. “We run London. We run the north, we run the whole f*cking country.” -John
91. “I’m gonna get better slowly. But you need to get better fast.” -Michael
92. “If I fail this time, I’ll fall all the way.” -Linda
93. “Everything is mine, Lizzie. Everything.” – Tommy
94. “You can’t. I’m having trouble these days and I’m twice the man you are.” – Polly
95. “What does a ten-year-old know about hell, eh?” – Tommy
96. “Thomas, you’re a bookmaker, a robber, a fighting man, you are not a fool.” – Polly
97. “I found you. And you found me. We’ll help each other.” – Tommy
98. “Men don’t have the strategic intelligence to conduct war between families.” -Polly
99. “It’s not about rules, Pol. It’s about what he asked me.” -Tommy
100. “Why? What have you got in there, a magic wand?” -Polly
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