In this article, we feature some of the best and most memorable Peaky Blinders quotes we all love to recite day in and day out.
Peaky Blinders is a British crime drama that was created by Steven Knight in 2013 and currently aired for 5 seasons. The show takes places in Birmingham after World War I and tells the story of the Shelby crime family. The family in the show is mostly based on a youth gang that goes by the same name and was extremely active in Birmingham city from 1890 to the early years of the 20th century.
The show stars famous actors and among them are Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Paul Anderson, Helen McCrory, Finn Cole, Joe Cloe, Ned Dennehy, Sophie Rundle and others. Peaky Blinders won the BAFTA TV Awards in 2018 for Best Drama Series and the sixth season will be the last season of the show.
Here is a sneak peek at the quotes in this article:
Peaky Blinders Tommy Shelby Quotes
Tommy Shelby: The only way to guarantee peace is by making the prospect of war seem hopeless.
Season 3, episode 2, Episode #3.2
Tommy Shelby: I’m not a traitor to my class. I am just an extreme example of what a working man can achieve.
Season 4, episode 4, Dangerous
Grace Burgess: You think I’m a whore!
Tommy Shelby: Everyone’s a whore, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves.
Season 1, episode 3, Episode #1.3
Grace Burgess: How much did you pay for the suit you’ll be wearing?
Thomas Shelby: Oh, I don’t pay for suits. My suits are on the house or the house burns down.
Season 1, episode 3, Episode #1.3
Tommy Shelby: Whisky’s good proofing water. Tells you who’s real and who isn’t.
Season 1, episode 3, Episode #1.3
Tommy Shelby: Lies travel faster than the truth.
Season 1, episode 3, Episode #1.3
Tommy Shelby: She’s in the past. The past is not my concern. The future is no longer my concern, either.
Season 1, episode 6, Episode #1.6
Tommy Shelby: Good taste is for people who can’t afford sapphires.
Season 3, episode 2, Episode #3.2
Tommy Shelby: Get yourself a decent haircut, man. We’re going to the races.
Season 1, episode 2, Episode #1.2
Tommy Shelby: In pubs sometimes people say things and sometimes it’s the whisky talking. It’s hard to tell which is which.
Season 1, episode 5, Episode #1.5
Tommy Shelby: Conviction introduces emotion, which is the enemy of oratory.
Season 5, episode 6, Mr. Jones
Tommy Shelby: For those who make the rules, there are no rules.
Season 5, episode 1, Black Tuesday
Tommy Shelby: You have to choose who you’re more afraid of. The Peaky Blinders at exactly 11.43, or Section D at some point in the future. If you make the wrong choice you won’t see 11.44.
Season 3, episode 3, Episode #3.3
Tommy Shelby: You can change what you do, but you can’t change what you want.
Season 3, episode 3, Episode #3.3
Tommy Shelby: All religion is a foolish answer to a foolish question.
Season 3, episode 3, Episode #3.3
Tommy Shelby: You know, gentlemen, there is hell, and there is another place below hell.
Season 3, episode 2, Episode #3.2
Tommy Shelby: I can charm dogs. Gypsy witchcraft. And those I can’t charm I can kill with my own hands.
Season 3, episode 2, Episode #3.2
Tommy Shelby: The Russians have made contact. We have to get used to how these bastards operate. For them, family is a weakness and they go after them. For me, family is my strength.
Season 3, episode 1, Episode #3.1
Tommy Shelby: You have to get what you want your own way.
Season 3, episode 6, Episode #3.6
Tommy Shelby: Sweetheart, whatever you’ve heard, I don’t need to make threats.
Season 4, episode 1, The Noose
Tommy Shelby: Five for peace, two for truce, one abstention. Let’s get on with the war.
Season 4, episode 2, Heathens
Tommy Shelby: There is no rest for me in this world. Perhaps in the next. Source:
Season 4, episode 6, The Company
Tommy Shelby: There’s a part of me that is unfamiliar to myself. And I keep finding myself there.
Season 5, episode 4, The Loop
Tommy Shelby: Sometimes death is a kindness.
Season 5, episode 1, Black Tuesday
Tommy Shelby: These days, people tell me things without even speaking.
Season 5, episode 1, Black Tuesday
Tommy Shelby: No, I’m not God. Not yet.
Season 5, episode 1, Black Tuesday
Tommy Shelby: I am my own revolution.
Season 5, episode 2, Black Cats
Tommy Shelby: You want me to write this down? Do you want me to write you a fucking letter? Me and Arthur can’t write it down, because they haven’t invented the fucking words.
Season 5, episode 2, Black Cats
Tommy 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.
Season 5, episode 3, Strategy
Tommy Shelby: People are loyal to those who pay their wages.
Season 5, episode 3, Strategy
Tommy Shelby: A man needs to prove he is better than me, rather than show me his birth certificate.
Season 5, episode 6, Mr. Jones
Tommy Shelby: I’m going to do a good thing. Whenever I do a good thing, innocent people get hurt.
Season 5, episode 6, Mr. Jones
Tommy Shelby: When fortune drops something valuable into your lap, you don’t just dump it on The Bank of the Cut.
Season 1, episode 1, Episode #1.1
Tommy Shelby: I have made arrangements with men I trust. If I should die, then you will die. Know that!
Season 2, episode 4, Episode #2.4
Peaky Blinders Aunt Polly Gray Quotes
Aunt Polly Gray: Maybe it’s in us. It’s with Shelbys. It’s in our Gypsy blood. We live somewhere between life and death, waiting to move on. And in the end, we accept it. We shake hands with the devils and we walk past them.
Season 4, episode 6, The Company
Aunt Polly Gray: We all try and get away. But we never do.
Season 5, episode 3, Strategy
Aunt Polly Gray: Rule one, you don’t punch above your weight.
Season 1, episode 2, Episode #1.2
Aunt Polly Gray: When you’re dead already, you’re free.
Season 4, episode 2, Heathens
Aunt Polly Gray: My senior position within the Shelby company means I don’t often have to ask permission from anyone to do anything.
Season 3, episode 1, Episode #3.1
Aunt Polly Gray: If I come for you, and I still might yet decide to come for you, I will wear high heels so you can hear my approach on the cobblestones and have time to repent. You listen for my footsteps.
Season 5, episode 3, Strategy
Aunt Polly Gray: We’ve kept each other alive. But I didn’t just put my head through that window. I climbed through it. First I thought it was madness, but no. When you’ve put your head out of that window, you can do anything you want. Because there are no rules. Because there are no risks.
Season 4, episode 5, The Duel
Aunt Polly Gray: Men don’t have the strategic intelligence to conduct a war between families. Men are less good at keeping secrets out of their lies.
Season 4, episode 4, Dangerous
Aunt Polly Gray: There’s only one thing can blind a man as smart as you, Tommy. Love.
Season 1, episode 6, Episode #1.6
Aunt Polly Gray: Babies don’t have principles.
Season 1, episode 5, Episode #1.5
Peaky Blinders Arthur Shelby Quotes
Arthur Shelby: Who wants to be in heaven, eh? Who wants to be in heaven when you can be sending men to fucking hell?
Season 3, episode 6, Episode #3.6
Arthur Shelby: In the end, it’s God who pulls that fucking trigger anyway. We don’t get to decide who lives and who dies, Finn. Not us. You just have to flick a switch.
Season 4, episode 4, Dangerous
Arthur Shelby: There is good in my heart, but my hands…these hands…belong to the devil.
Season 5, episode 3, Strategy
Arthur Shelby: I know who I am, Linda. I know who I am and I’m all right with it. Finally, I can live with it.
Season 5, episode 1, Black Tuesday
Arthur Shelby: I’m an old man and my heart’s battered vessel, but within, there still beats a fluttering pulse of a dream.
Season 1, episode 5, Episode #1.5
Arthur Shelby: You see, ladies? When you’re out with a Blinder, you don’t have to queue
Season 1, episode 1, Episode #1.1
Arthur Shelby: We’re kings! Kings of the fucking world!
Season 2, episode 6, Episode #2.6
Arthur Shelby: Tell your boss what you saw here today. And tell him…you don’t fuck with the Peaky Blinders.
Season 4, episode 6, The Company
Arthur Shelby: This place is under new management. By order of the Peaky Blinders!
Season 2, Episode 5, Episode #2.5
Arthur Shelby: Point that thing at my head…that’s where the trouble is…
Season 2, episode 3, Episode #2.3
Arthur Shelby: By order of the Peaky Blinders.
Season 1, episode 3, Episode #1.3
Arthur Shelby: Gut-shot soldiers take half a day to die. I’ve seen ’em. Walking around with their guts in their arms like dirty washing.
Season 2, episode 3, Episode #2.3
Peaky Blinders Alfie Solomons Quotes
Alfie Solomons: Life is so much easier to deal with when you are dead.
Season 5, episode 6, Mr. Jones
Alfie Solomons: Tommy, when a pikey walks in with hair like that, you’ve got to ask yourself, “Have I made a mistake?”
Season 4, episode 4, Dangerous
Alfie Solomons: You are behaving like a f*****g child. This is a man’s world.
Season 2, episode 6, Episode #2.6
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.
Season 4, episode 4, Dangerous
Alfie Solomons: Never give power to the big man.
Season 2, episode 3, Episode #2.3
Alfie Solomons: If you pull that trigger, right, you pull that trigger for a fucking honourable reason. Like an honourable man, not like some fucking civilian that does not understand the wicked way of our world, mate.
Season 3, episode 6, Episdoe #3.6
Alfie Solomons: He who fights by the sword, he fucking dies by it, Tommy.
Season 3, episode 6, Episode #3.6
Alfie Solomons: Every man, he craves certainty.
Season 3, episode 5, Episode #3.5
Alfie Solomons: He’ll wake up. Granted he won’t have any teeth left but he will be a wiser man for it.
Season 2, episode 3, Episode #2.3
Alfie Solomons: Don’t come in here and sit there in my chair and tell me that I’m losing my war to a fucking wop.
Season 2, episode 2, Episode #2.2
Alfie Solomons: He is of mixed religion, therefore he is godless. He was adopted by Satan himself, before he was returned out of fear of his awkwardness.
Season 4, Episode 4, Dangerous
Alfie Solomons: Intelligence is a very valuable thing, innit, my friend? And usually it comes far too fucking late.
Season 2, episode 2, Episode #2.2
Alfie Solomons: Rum’s for fun and fucking, innit? So, whisky, now that…that is for business.
Season 2, episode 2, Episode #2.2
Luca Changretta: I’m Luca Changretta.
Alfie Solomons: Oh yeah, I know who you are, you’re a bit of a failure, aren’t you? You come all the way over here in this country to kill Tommy Shelby, but…I mean, well, he’s not dead, is he?
Season 4, episode 5, The Duel
Tommy Shelby: I’m going to shoot Oswald Mosley.
Alfie Solomons: I hope you do a better job on him than the one you’ve done on me, yeah?
Season 5, episode 6, Mr. Jones
Peaky Blinders Chester Campbell Quotes
Chester Campbell: In all the world the only thing that interests me is the truth.
Season 1, episode 1, Episode #1.1
Chester Campbell: We will take them before last night’s beer turns to piss and wakes the devils up.
Season 1, episode 2, Episdoe #1.2
Chester Campbell: Killing a man affects the heart.
Season 1, episode 3, Episode #1.3
Chester Campbell: My fury is a thing to behold.
Season 1, episode 4, Episode #1.4
Chester Campbell: One thing I have learned is that you and I are opposites, but also just the same. Like an image in a mirror. We hate people. And they in turn hate us. And fear us.
Season 1, episode 6, Episode #1.6
Chester Campbell: Men like us, Mr Shelby will always be alone. And what love we get, we will have to pay for.
Season 1, episode 6, Episode #1.6
Chester Campbell: I find the more obvious vices the easiest to resist.
Season 2, episode 1, Episode #2.1
Chester Campbell: When my judgment comes, I’ll be the one that’s laughing.
Season 2, episode 3, Episode #2.3
Chester Campbell: An agreement is not the same thing as an assurance.
Season 2, episode 5, Episode #2.5
Chester Campbell: To make sure your dog obeys you, you have to show it the stick once in a while.
Season 2, episode 5, Episode #2.5
Peaky Blinders Miscellaneous Quotes
Lizzie Shelby: You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you take.
Season 5, episode 3, Strategy
Tatiana Petrovna: At home, these jewels saw way worse. That’s why they are all cursed. As are we Mr. Shelby.
Season 3, episode 6, Episode #3.6
Father John Hughes: If the St. Andrew’s clock strikes 5am on the night of the robbery and we don’t have everything we ask for, the bell will be tolling for your boy.
Season 3, episode 6, Episode #3.6
Ruben Oliver: Politics is deliberately making things better for some people by deliberately making them worse for others.
Season 3, episode 2, Episode #3.2
Father John Hughes: Ambition for respectability doesn’t make you a saint.
Season 3, episode 2, Episode #3.2
Grace Burgess: May you be in heaven a full half hour before the devil knows you’re dead.
Season 1, episode 4, Episode #1.4
Tatiana Petrovna: Did you know that madness sets you free? Otherwise, we’re just peasants obeying the law.
Season 3, episode 4, Episode #3.4
Grace Burgess: There’s business and there’s love.
Season 2, episode 6, Episode #2.6
May Carleton: You’ve told me about her, like a gentleman, now kindly behave like a gangster again.
Season 2, episode 5, Episode #2.5
Esme Shelby: I don’t need a knife to stop me telling secrets given in confidence. It is a matter of honour.
Season 2, episode 1, Episode #2.1
Irene O’Donnell: In all the world, violent men are the easiest to deal with.
Season 2, episode 1, Episode #2.1
Billy Kimber: Nobody works with me. People work for me.
Season 1, episode 2, Episode #1.2
Billy Kimber: Right, he’s the oldest, you’re the thickest. I’m told the boss is called Tommy and I’m guessing that’s you, cos’ you’re looking me up and down like I’m a fucking tart.
Season 1, episode 2, Episode #1.2
Interesting Facts about Peaky Blinders
After these great quotes from all those powerful characters, here are some interesting facts about Peaky Blinders that you may or may not know about.
- Peaky Blinders is Based on a Story – Steven Knight, creator of the TV series, said that Peaky Blinders is based on a story that his father used to tell him when he was a kid. Also, around the age of 8 or 9, Knight’s father gave him a piece of paper with a message written in it and told him to deliver it to his uncles, The Sheldons. Later on, they became The Shelbys.
- Liam Neeson Helped Sam Neill with His Accent – Sam Neill was born in Northern Ireland and later moved to New Zealand at the age of 7. Producers of the show asked that the accent won’t be too strong so that the lines will be understood, although Northern Ireland accent can be quite challenging. Neill said that after all those years growing in New Zealand, there’s probably no trace of the Northern Ireland accent, but he asked the help of Liam Neeson for the show and got it.
- Cillian Murphy Smoked a Lot of Cigarettes for the Show – Believe it or not, but Cillian Murphy doesn’t smoke. During the time when the show takes place, people used to smoke day in and day out, so even though Murphy doesn’t smoke at all, he had to smoke (and a lot!) for the show.
- Jason Statham Almost Got a Part in the Show – Steven Knight worked with Statham in the past when he directed him in the 2013 movie Redemption. He wanted to include Statham in this show as well, but due to previous obligations, Statham could not have been part of the show.
- Celebrities Love the Show – The show has many celebrity fans all over the world and one of those fans was none other than David Bowie. He was a huge fan of Peaky Blinders and even sent to Cillian Murphy a photo of himself with razor blades in his cap a year before he died. Bowie’s music even features in the third season of the show. Snoop Dogg is also a big fan of the show.
- Actors Sometimes Get Confused with the Timeline – The show is not shot in chronological order, so actors sometimes get confused when it comes to the timeline of Peaky Blinders. Murphy even asked director Tim Mielants to draw up four A4 sheets and in his trailer, he followed those sheets to understand where his character is, where he’s going and so on, in order to get his mind right and not confused all the time.
- Darby Sabini and Billy Kimber were actually gangsters – At the time, Kimber was a bookie who ran racecourses. However, he died at the age of 63 in a nursing home in Torquay and not at the hands of a Shelby family member. Sabini was a rival of Kimber.
- Helen McCrory Learned the Brummie Accent from Ozzy Osbourne – McCorory said that she learned the accent by watching clips of Ozzy Osbourne. Ozzy, is also one of the most popular people who came out of Birmingham.
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