Lone Watie: How did you know which one was goin’ to shoot first? Josie Wales: Well, that one in the center: he had a flap holster and he was in no itchin’ hurry. And the one second from the left: he had scared eyes, he wasn’t gonna do nothin’. But that one on the far left: he had crazy eyes. Figured him to make the first move. Lone Watie: How 'bout the one on the right? Josie Wales: Never paid him no mind; you were there.
**Lone Watie **(after a very, very long pause): I could have missed.
**The Outlaw Josie Wales **is the Buckaroo Banzai of westerns when it comes to great lines.
Tom Reese: And all that hogwash about horses! The loyalty of the horse! The intelligence of the horse! The intelligence? You know a horse has a brain just about the size of a walnut. They’re mean, they’re treacherous and they’re stupid. There isn’t a horse born that had enough sense to move away from a hot fire. No sensible man loves a horse. He tolerates the filthy animal only because riding is better than walking.
Shane: So you’re Jack Wilson.
Wilson: What’s that mean to you, Shane?
Shane: I’ve heard about you.
Wilson: What have you heard, Shane?
Shane: (Lowers voice and delivers this line unlike any way he’s talked in the movie before) I’ve heard that you’re a low-down Yankee liar.
Wilson: (Smiles, long pause): Prove it.
Tombstone, after Kurt Russell smacks around Billy Bob Thornton: "You gonna do something, or just stand there and bleed?"
And one of my favorite scenes from Outlaw Josey Wales is when the bounty hunter comes in and recognizes Wales, and Wales talks him out of throwing down with him, and the bounty hunter walks out of the saloon. A few seconds later, the bounty hunter walks back in the bar and says, "I had to come back." To which Wales responds, “I know.”
Chamlee: I don’t like it, no sir. I’ve always treated every man the same: just as another, future customer.
Henry: Well in that case, get that hearse rolling.
Chamlee: I can’t, my driver’s quit!
Robert: He’s prejudiced too, huh?
Chamlee: Well, when it comes to a chance of getting his head blown off, he’s downright bigoted.