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Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York quotes

53 total quotes

Amsterdam Vallon
Bill the Butcher
Boss Tweed
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View Quote I gotta sleep with one eye open and I've only got one eye, right?
View Quote You see this knife? I'm gonna teach you to speak English with this ****ing knife!
View Quote Mulberry Street... and Worth... Cross and Orange... and Little Water. Each of the Five Points is a finger. When I close my hand it becomes a fist. And, if I wish, I can turn it against you.
View Quote My father gave his life, making this country what it is. Murdered by the British with all of his men on the twenty fifth of July, anno domini, 1814. Do you think I'm going to help you befoul his legacy, by giving this country over to them, what's had no hand in the fighting for it? Why, because they come off a boat crawling with lice and begging you for soup.
View Quote A real native is someone who is willing to die fighting for his country. There's nothing more to it.
View Quote Oopsie-daisy!
View Quote [Last words] Thank God. I die a true American.
View Quote If you get all of us together, we ain't got a gang, we've got an army.
View Quote Walter 'Monk' McGinn: Well that was bloody Shakespearian. Do you know who Shakespeare was, boyo? The fella who wrote the King James Bible.
View Quote Bill: On the seventh day the Lord rested, but before that he did, he squatted over the side of England and what came out of him... was Ireland. No offense son.
Amsterdam: Nah, none taken, sir. I grew up here. All I ever knew of Ireland was from the talk of the others at the orphan asylum.
Bill: And which part of that excrementitious isle where your forebears spawned?
Amsterdam: I've been told Kerry, I lost proof of it in my language at the asylum.
View Quote What do you say, Jen? One more time for the sweet souvenir?
View Quote This is a night for America!
View Quote Everything you see belongs to me, to one degree or another. The beggars and newsboys and quick thieves here in Paradise, the sailor dives and gin mills and blind tigers on the waterfront, the anglers and amusers, the she-hes and the ****. Everybody owes, everybody pays. Because that's how you stand up against the rising of the tide.
View Quote That, my friends, is the minority vote.
View Quote Burn him, see if his ashes turn green.