“I can’t help you, Sundance.”
Yet another from Unforgiven:
Will Munny: It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.
Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.
Opened the thread to suggest this. My favorite moment in Wayne’s career.
Missed my edit window.
Other quotes from True Grit:
“I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.” - not quite as good as Wayne’s line above, but Duval’s great and he elevates it some.
“Now, It’s a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same!”- just plain funny.
In context:
If I don’t come back, tell mother I love her.
Your mother’s dead, Llewelyn.
Well then I’ll tell her myself.
No Country for Old Men
Jack Beauregard : You shine like the door of a whorehouse. A blind man could spot you ten miles off.
Nobody : I like folks to see me.
Jack : Maybe folks don’t share your pleasure.
and
Jack : Folks that throw dirt on you aren’t always trying to hurt you, and folks that pull you out of a jam aren’t always trying to help you. But the main point is : when you’re up to your nose in shit, keep your mouth shut.
both from My Name Is Nobody
‘Welcome to fuckin’ Deadwood! Can be combative!"
“My oath on this: Every day that the widow sits on her ass in New York City, looks west at sunset and thinks to herself ‘God bless you ignorant cocksuckers in Deadwood, who do strive mightily and at little money to add to my ever-increasing fortune,’ she’ll be safe from the wiles of Al Swearengen.”
“I’m sayin’ I had a vision it’d happen. My second of the day. First come when I was watchin’ you and them lawyers on line this morning. They began to slither in my sight like vipers. So as not to puke, I had to close my eyes. The vision went on. Got worse. I saw the vipers in the big nest in Washington. They were takin’ us in the camp for actin’ like we could set our own laws up or organizations and then saw the big vipers decide to strangle and swallow us up every fuckin’ thing we gain here. It was horrible. How could we fuckin’ avoid it? How could we let the vipers in the big nest know that we didn’t wanna cause any fuckin’ trouble?”
“How about a nap, a bath and sex with an unfamiliar woman?”
“Her gutter mouth, and the widow in an opium stupor: a conversation for the ages.”
…and about 500 others. All from the incomparable Deadwood.
And from Rustler’s Rhapsody:
Colonel Ticonderoga: Jud, throw another faggot on the fire.
Jud: A what?
Colonel Ticonderoga: A log! Throw another log on the fire!
and
Colonel Ticonderoga: Well, hell! We’re gonna be here all day!
“Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?” Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Here’s another good one from Support Your Local Gunfighter
Col. Ames: We share the same ancestors as far back as Adam and Eve. I desire no closer relation than that.
Hombre:
Mexican Bandit: Hey, hombre! Look amigo, how close you come!
[indicating the wound on his stomach]
John Russell: I tried to do better; I think you moved.
Mexican Bandit: You can be sure I move! How do you prefer them, eh, tied to a tree?
John Russell: That’d be nice.
Mexican Bandit: You like to pull the trigger, eh?
John Russell: I can do it again for you.
Man [about Chigurh] Just how dangerous is he?
Carson Wells Compared to what? The bubonic plague?
Llewelyn Moss What’s this guy supposed to be, the ultimate bad-ass?
Carson Wells No, I wouldn’t describe him as that.
Llewelyn Moss How would you describe him?
Carson Wells I guess I would say he doesn’t have a sense of humor.
They may be a “best line in a western” to you, but I don’t recognize it. That’s even worse than making me link chase to find it. What’s it from?
Basically every line from Unforgiven
And The Searchers
From The Searchers
(just before an Indian Charge)
For what we’re about to receive may the Lord make us truly thankful.
Silverado
What’s the matter, don’t you think I can get the two behind me?
Today, my jurisdiction ends here.
and for me the best is
I’ve got to, that’s the whole thing.
Will Kane High Noon
John Wayne in The Shootist.
Ah, but you left out the best part:
Del: I’ve got a fine horse under me!
Jeremiah: Anybody else pass this way?
Del: Well, nobody’s passed in front of me. I can’t say much about behind. You wouldn’t happen to have a spare hat, would you?
The beginning of that quote was great too:
That them shootin’?
No, it’s coming from those rocks.
Well, let’s go. He ain’t hittin’ nothin’.
You idiot, he’s hit everything he’s aimed at!
From El Dorado:
Sheriff J. P. Harrah: What the hell are you doin’ here?
Cole: I’m lookin’ at a tin star with a… drunk pinned on it.
From No Country For Old Men, the sheriff:
“Well, if it ain’t a mess, it’ll do 'till one shows up.”
Wendell Hickson (Willie Nelson) in Electirc Horseman
“Gonna stop over in Las Vegas and see this girl I know. She can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.”
“You elected?”
“Nope. Got nominated real good though.”