Peaky Blinders captions and quotes for Instagram

by user December 28, 2021

Peaky Blinders is a British period crime drama television series created by Steven Knight. Set in Birmingham, England, the series follows the exploits of the Shelby crime family in the direct aftermath of the First World War. The fictional family is loosely based on a real urban youth gang of the same name, who was active in the city from the 1890s to the early 20th century.

Peaky Blinders is something you watch sitting up as opposed to lying down. The show also boasts well-written, strong female characters, an unblinking look at the damage that war has done to the young men of Britain, and a career-best performance from Cork actor Cillian Murphy in the lead role.

Here are some peaky blinders quotes and peaky blinders captions

Who wants to be in heaven, eh? Who wants to be in heaven when you can be sending men to ******* hell? Arthur Shelby

Arthur Shelby Tweet

Men don’t have the strategic intelligence to conduct a war between families. Men are less good at keeping secrets out of their lies.

Polly Gray Tweet

He’ll wake up. Granted he won’t have any teeth left but he will be a wiser man for it.

Alfie Solomons Tweet

May you be in heaven a full half-hour before the devil knows you’re dead.

Grace Burgess Tweet

Whisky’s good proofing water. Tells you who’s real and who isn’t.

Tommy Shelby Tweet

Men like us, Mr. Shelby, will always be alone. And what love we get, we will have to pay for.

Chester Campbell Tweet

Sometimes the women have to take over. Like in the war.

Polly Gray Tweet

I know what I know, you know. If you don't know, then you don't ******* know, do you?

Alfie Solomons Tweet

Good taste is for people who can't afford sapphires.

Tommy Shelby Tweet

Men and their cocks never cease to amaze me.

Polly Gray Tweet

Oh...And there's a woman. Yeah. A woman...I love...and I got close. I nearly got fuc****ng EVERYTHING!

Thomas Shelby Tweet

My fury is a thing to behold.

Chester Campbell Tweet

Rum’s for fun and *******, innit? Whisky, now that…that is for business.

Alfie Solomons Tweet

WHAT F****** LINE AM I SUPPOSED TO HAVE CROSSED?! How many fathers, right, how many sons, yeah, have you cut, killed, murdered, butchered, innocent, and guilty, to send straight to f****** Hell, ain't ya?! JUST LIKE ME!

Alfie Solomons Tweet

Intelligence is a very valuable thing, innit, my friend. And usually, it comes far too f****** late.

Alfie Solomons Tweet

Who wants to be in heaven when you can be sending men to f****** hell?

Arthur Shelby Tweet

Sergeant Thorne, reporting for duty, sir.

Freddie Thorne Tweet

I just put a bullet in his head…he looked at me the wrong way.

Tommy Shelby Tweet

No fighting. No f****** fighting. No fighting. NO F****** FIGHTING!

Thomas Shelby Tweet

Don't f*ck with the Peaky Blinders

Polly Shelby Tweet

Babies don’t have principles.

Polly Gray Tweet

By order of the Peaky Blinders.

Arthur Shelby Tweet

I don't pay for suits. My suits are on the house or the house burns down.

Tommy Shelby Tweet

All religion is a foolish answer to a foolish question.

Tommy Shelby Tweet

I can charm dogs. Gypsy witchcraft. And those I can’t charm I can kill with my own hands.

Tommy Shelby Tweet

Peaky Blinders season five revealed what was next for Tommy Shelby and the rest of the gang as they faced the Wall Street crash, rival gangs, and Fascist leader Oswald Mosley.

But what about their real-life counterparts? Who were they and what actually happened to them?

Just like in the TV show, the real Peaky Blinders were a notorious Birmingham gang involved in gambling, robbery, protection rackets, and violence.

In fact, creator Steven Knight was inspired to write Peaky Blinders because his dad’s uncles, the Sheldons, were bookmakers and part of the Peaky Blinders’ heritage. In an interview with History Extra, he revealed that his dad’s stories gave him his first vision of the show.

“One of the stories that really made me want to write Peaky Blinders is one my dad told me… His dad gave him a message and said, ‘Go and deliver this to your uncles’… My dad knocked on the door and there was a table with about eight men… immaculately dressed, wearing caps and with guns in their pockets. The table was covered with money…

“Just that image – smoke, booze and these immaculately dressed men in this slum in Birmingham – I thought, that’s the mythology, that’s the story, and that’s the first image I started to work with.”

The actual Peaky Blinders were around from the 1890s rather than the 1920s, so that differs from the BBC series. Most of their members were young men, and some could be as young as 12.

They were purely a street gang, though, and didn’t have Tommy’s political ambition. They did, however, go further than Tommy – or even Arthur – in their casual violence. On top of the robberies and skirmishes with rival gangs, they also assaulted the police.

If you thought their violence against others was bad, the fights among themselves were even worse. Knight’s uncle said (via The Mirror) that in one fight between two Peaky Blinders: “They didn’t care about each other’s eyes, ears, throats. They were like dogs fighting.”

The popular story is that their name came from the razor blades in their caps. Historian Carl Chinn (via Birmingham Mail) suggested that this is most likely a myth. Razor blades were only starting to be used in the 1890s and so were prohibitively expensive at the time. It’s much more likely their name came from the peaks of their caps and the fact that ‘blinder’ was slang for their well-dressed appearance.

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