"I've got forty-four notches on my club. Do you know what they're for? They're to remind me what I owe God when I die. My father was killed in battle, too. In Ireland, in the streets, fighting those who would take as their privilege what could only be got and held by the decimation of a race. That war is a thousand years old and more. We never expected it to follow us here. It didn't. It was waiting for us when we landed. Your father tried to carve out a corner of this land for his tribe. That was him, that was his dead rabbits. I often wondered... if he had lived a bit longer, would he have wanted a bit more?"

"Father! Jesus, did you know there's NIGGER IN YOUR CHURCH?!"

"You're gonna end up on a stake like your man did! GYUUUUURRGH!"

"There's no niggers among the Natives! Niggers and Rabbits is one thing! BUT A NIGGER IN THE CHURCH, THAT'S SOMETHING ELESE!"

"What's that *NIGGER* DOING IN THIS CHURCH?!"

"THIS SHOW AIN'T FOR BLACKIES!!!"

"NO NIG-NOGGERY HERE!!!! NO--"

"GO BACK TO AFRICA, NIGGER! GO BACK TO AFRICAAAAA!!!!!!"

"Remember the first rule of politics. The ballots don't make the results, the counters make the results. The counters. Keep counting."

"The appearance of law must be upheld, especially while it's being broken."

"You see this knife? I'm gonna teach you to speak English with this fucking knife!"

"It's like I tell all of my boys. [Casper shoots Eddie Dane] Always put one in the brain!"

"David Darlow - Lazarre's Messenger"

"Lanny Flaherty - Terry"

"Olek Krupa - Tad"

"Steve Buscemi - Mink"

"Thomas Toner - O'Doole"

"Richard Woods - Mayor Dale Levander"

"Al Mancini - Tic-Tac"

"Mike Starr - Frankie"

"Albert Finney - Liam 'Leo' O'Bannon"

"J.E. Freeman - Eddie Dane"

"Jon Polito - Johnny Caspar"

"John Turturro - Bernie Bernbaum"

"Marcia Gay Harden - Verna Bernbaum"

"Gabriel Byrne - Tom Reagan"

"Nothing is what it seems at Miller's Crossing."

"Up is down, black is white, and nothing is what it seems."

"Tic-Tac: C'mon, Tom. Boss wants to see ya. He didn't have time to engrave nothin' formal."

"Tic-Tac: You gotta remember to put one in his BRAIN. Your first shot puts him down, then you put one in his BRAIN. Then he's dead. Then we go home."

"Verna: That's you all over, Tom. A lie, and no heart."

"Verna: Maybe that's why I like you, Tom. I've never met anyone who made being a son of a bitch such a point of pride."

"Leo O'Bannion: [to Caspar] You ain't got a license to kill bookies and today I ain't sellin'. So take your flunky and dangle."

"You understand that if we don't find a stiff out here, we leave a fresh one."

"Up is down, black is white."

"I am gonna send you to a deep, dark place and I am gonna have fun doing it!"

"Go ahead and run sweetie, I'll track down all you whores."

"You dumpin' Leo for the guy that put a bullet in your brother?"

"Jesus, I open my mouth, the whole world turns smart."

"Do you know who I am?"

"Then I wondered "Why would Einstein want to talk to a gorilla?" So I grab the gorilla and I beat it out of him."

"Ever noticed how the snappy dialog dries up once a guy starts soiling his union suit?"