- Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson: [during an argument with Eli] You know, it's too bad you didn't see Hardeen the other night.
- Elias 'Eli' Thompson: What?
- Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson: It's an entertaining act, but if he wasn't Houdini's bother, nobody'd give a fuck.
- Theodore Hardeen: I'm a magician, Miss, not a thief.
- Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson: That's an excuse that might come in handy some day.
- Commodore Louis Kaestner: [annoyed aat Jimmy's indifference to his dog's death] You're a stony little bastard.
- James 'Jimmy' Darmody: I'm what time and circumstance have made me.
- Gillian Darmody: [to Jimmy about the Commodore] I told the doctor that I'd meet him at your father's house. No one deserves to die alone.