Peaky Blinders – Series Quotes [Season 3]

— What was your father's profession?
— Well, he, erm... He told fortunes and stole horses. Often he would tell a man that his horse would be stolen and they would marvel at his powers when it was.

We should keep what we love.

To me, politics is deliberately making things better for some people by deliberately making them worse for others.

The only way to guarantee peace is by making the prospect of war seem hopeless.

Did you know that madness sets you free? Otherwise, we're just peasants obeying the law. There is madness inside your head, too. I can see that.

— I thought you were off the whisky, Arthur.
— Yeah, I am. I'm having a couple now and again to remind myself why I don't drink it.

We have to get used to how this bastards operate. For them, family is the weakness and they go after them. For me, family is my strength.

Now, remember last night when you asked after Mama? She's gone, Charlie, and there's a few things we need to get this straight. There's her photographs, there's here clothes. We will keep things the way they are in the room. Just... keep things the way they are... I'm not much good, Charlie. And they'll found that out soon enough. But she's not going to be coming back, so it's just you and me. But she'll be with us in our hearts. Cos we love her.

If there is a call after midnight, the maid who comes in is the one in love with the master...

Working in the dark is for the devil. We said. Start to do your work in the light. You have your own light. Inside your head.

Do you know what time it is, old man? I'll tell you. It's after seven in the evening. And I am going to keep you alive until it gets light. I'll not to deliver the final cut until we can both hear the blackbirds singing outside. It's a beautiful sound. Which my wife will never hear again.

— The taking of any human life is a mortal sin.
— No. The unjust taking of a human life is a mortal sin.

This is who I am! And this is all I can give you for what you give me. For your hearts and your souls. Yesterday, I nearly lost my son. You should fucking understand that. For what? For what? For this? For this...?! And I know that you all want me to say that I'll change, that this fucking business will change. But I've learnt something in the last few days. Those bastards. Those bastards are worse that us. Politicians, fucking judges, lords and ladies. They're worse than us, and they will never admit us to their palaces, no matter how legitimate we become... because of who we are. Because of who we fucking are, because of where we're fucking from. Isn't thar right, Ada? Our Ada knows. She got smart about revolution. And she knows you have to get what you want your own way. Lizzie, I want it known, that money was for you because, some nights, it was you... who stopped my heart from breaking. No-one else. And the rest of you, you took the King's shilling. You took the King's fucking shilling. When you take the King's shilling, the King expects you to kill.