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The Best Quotes From Westerns
by John Hawkins
"There's right and there's wrong. You got a do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat." -- Alamo
"Your fault, my fault, nobody's fault, I'm gonna blow your head off. No matter who gets killed, no matter who gets shot, I'm gonna blow your head off." -- Big Jake
"If he'd just pay me what he's paying them to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him!" -- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
"I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it." -- For A Few Dollars More
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk." -- The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig." -- The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
"There's always a man faster on the draw than you are, and the more you use a gun, the sooner you're gonna run into that man." -- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
"You're a good-looking boy: you've big, broad shoulders. But he's a man. And it takes more than big, broad shoulders to make a man." -- High Noon
"The public doesn't give a damn about integrity. A town that won't defend itself deserves no help." -- High Noon
"Well, Jack. Now you know. This is a house of ill fame. And I'm a fallen flower. This life is not only wicked and sinful. It isn't even any fun." -- Little Big Man
"Lord...whatever I've done to piss you off...if you could just get me out of this and somehow let me know what it was I promise to rectify the situation." -- Maverick
"If I can't touch you, I can touch your shirt and dream." -- Maverick
"Don't you ever say that again about your fathers, because they are not cowards. You think I am brave because I carry a gun; well, your fathers are much braver because they carry responsibility, for you, your brothers, your sisters, and your mothers. And this responsibility is like a big rock that weighs a ton. It bends and it twists them until finally it buries them under the ground. And there's nobody says they have to do this. They do it because they love you, and because they want to. I have never had this kind of courage. Running a farm, working like a mule every day with no guarantee anything will ever come of it. This is bravery." -- The Magnificent Seven
"Get ready, little lady. Hell is coming to breakfast." -- The Outlaw Josey Wales
"Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is." -- The Outlaw Josey Wales
"Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?" -- The Outlaw Josey Wales
Josey Wales: "You a bounty hunter?"
Bounty Hunter: "A man has to do something these days to earn a living."
Josey Wales: "Dyin' ain't much of a living boy!" -- The Outlaw Josey Wales
"There are only two things that are better than a gun: a Swiss watch and a woman from anywhere. Ever had a good... Swiss watch?" -- Red River
"Cherry was right. You're soft, you should have let 'em kill me, 'cause I'm gonna kill you. I'll catch up with ya. I don't know when, but I'll catch up. Every time you turn around, expect to see me, 'cause one time you'll turn around and I'll be there. I'm gonna kill ya, Matt." -- Red River
"You want that gun, pick it up. I wish you would." -- Rio Bravo
Sheriff John T. Chance: "You're not as smart as your brother, Joe. He sees Stumpy sitting in here and realizes that if his men try to come in here to get you you're going to get accidentally shot."
Stumpy: "I can practical' guarantee that!" -- Rio Bravo
"A gun is a tool, Marion, no better or no worse than any other tool, an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that." -- Shane
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." -- The Shootist
"We're gonna give you a fair trial, followed by a first class hanging." -- Silverado
"Now I don't wanna kill you, and you don't wanna be dead." -- Silverado
"There are some things a man just can't walk away from." -- Stagecoach
"Look at all the stars. You look up and you think, 'God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me.' It's kind of flattering, really." -- Tombstone
"I want your blood. And I want your soul. And I want them both right now!" -- Tombstone
"You gonna do somethin'? Or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?" -- Tombstone
Doc Holliday: "A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of himself. And he can never steal enough, or kill enough, or cause enough pain to fill it up. And so he walks the earth, forever seeking retribution..."
Wyatt Earp: "For what?"
Doc Holliday: "Being born." -- Tombstone
"All right Clanton, you called down the thunder and now you've got it. You see that? It says United States Marshall. Take a good look at him Ike because that's how your gonna end up. The cowboys are finished you understand me? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearing it. So run you cur, run, tell all the other curs that law is coming, you tell I'm coming, and Hell's coming with me you hear? Hell's coming with me." -- Tombstone
"Damn that Texan, when you need him he's dead." -- True Grit
"Fill your hand you son-of-a-b*tch" -- "True Grit"
"You better bury Ned right; and don't you be cutting up or otherwise harming no whores, or I'll come back and kill all you sons a b*tches." -- Unforgiven
Little Bill: "I don't deserve this... to die like this! I was building a house!"
Will Munny: "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." -- Unforgiven
"Anybody that doesn't want to get killed best clear on out the back." -- Unforgiven
Bill Munny: "Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."
The Schofield Kid: "Yeah, well, I guess he had it comin."
Bill Munny: "We all got it comin', kid." -- Unforgiven
"All right now, I'm comin' out. Any man I see out there, I'm gonna shoot him. Any sumb*tch takes a shot at me, I'm not only gonna kill him, but I'm gonna kill his wife. All his friends. Burn his damn house down." -- Unforgiven
"Yeah, well, Uncle Pete says you was the meanest godd*mn son-of-a-b*tch alive, and if I ever wanted a partner for a killin', you were the worst one. Meaning the best, on account as your's as cold as the snow and you don't have no weak nerve nor ear." -- Unforgiven
"I've killed women and children. I've killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you done to Ned." -- Unforgiven
"Dave Rutabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me." -- Wyatt Earp
"If we're caught, we're gonna hang... But there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip." -- Young Guns
Colonel Nathan Dudley: "Mr. Bohney! Mr. Mcksween! This is colonel Nathan Dudley out of Fort Scranton! Come on out, with your hands high!" Billy The Kid "Hahahahaha! With your hands high?
Billy The Kid: I better reason with him. Hey, Colonel sh*thead! You can kiss my *ss! Get president Hayes down here, then we'll come out! We'll see how they like that one!" -- Young Guns
"Dear Governor Axtell. I've heard that you will give 200 dollars for my head. Perhaps we should meet and talk. I am at the Juarez village at the border. Send 3 men, and instruct them not to shoot, as I am unarmed. In short, Sir; I surrender. Your obedient servant William H. Bonney. PS: I changed my mind. Kiss my *ss!" -- Young Guns
"Alex, if you stay they're gonna kill you. And then I'm gonna have to to go around and kill all the guys who killed you. That's a lot of killing." -- Young Guns
"Doc" Scurlock: "You son of a b*tch! You're starting to believe what they're writing about you, aren't you? Let me tell you what you really are! You rode a 14 year old boy straight to his grave, and the rest of us straight to hell... Straight to hell! William H. Bonney! You are NOT a god!"
Billy The Kid: "Why don't you pull the trigger and find out?" -- Young Guns 2
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