Peaky Blinders – Series Quotes [Season 1, Episode 3]

No heart in motor cars. I can't talk to them.

— I wouldn't know what to do.
— You've spent two-thirds of your life in pubs. Just pour it instead of drinking it.
— But I can still drink it, right?
— Your pub — you do what you want.

— How much did you pay for the suit you'll be wearing?
— Oh, I don't pay for suits. My suits are on the house or the house burns down.

— She {Ada} said you keep everything locked up.
— Well, that's what men do.
— Your sister's nice. I like her. It can't be easy for her. Her brother and her husband, fighting over the same thing. Men should talk, too.

— They gave us the worst job, Tommy.
— Yeah... and we're fucking volunteered. Sometimes, it lasts all night. 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."

— You loaded Ada with your bastard because she's a Shelby. You thought it'd mean you'd be somebody. I won't let you fuck up my sister's life for your cause.
— My God. You actually believe that. I love her, Tommy. I've loved her since she was nine and I was twelve. And she loves me the same. You even know the word?

Whiskey is good proofing water. It tells you who’s real and who isn’t.

Lies travel faster than the truth.

— You think I am a whore?
— Everyone's a whore, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves.