From The Sacketts, wherein Tell Sackett (played by Sam Elliott) has just used his huge knife, aka “Arkansas toothpick”, to gently shave off half of another man’s mustache, and then pours whiskey on it.
“Don’t want that to get infected.”
Actually, the quote is:
“I’m gonna get me a bottle of tequila and find me one of them Keno girls that can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch and just kinda kick back.”
A nice Willie quote, right up there with “It was a long-term loan on a short-term lie.”
From the Unforgiven - Little Bill’s one-armed deputy is asked what a one-armed man wants with so many guns (he’s loading three at the time). Deputy’s response is:
“If I have to die in a gunfight, I don’t want it to be for lack of shooting back.”
We were quoting this movie on election night: “Ah said, the president’s a nCLANG!”
And from Rustler’s Rhapsody:
“Get your rifle and come with me, or I’ll shoot your wife in the shoulder.”
What the f**k is that line supposed to mean?
Got into this thread too late, as most of my favorites have been taken:
One to add - Butch and the Kid: “Drown? Hell, the fall will probably kill you.”
I’m old school. From The Virginian “Smile when you say that.”
One of my favorites is from Dirty Harry:
“I know what yer thinkin…did he fire six shots, or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all the confusion, I lost track myself. So what you have to ask yourself is … are you feelin lucky?”
I don’t know if Dirty Harry is technically considered a Western but it is set in San Francisco…
Tombstone:
Doc Holliday: I have not even begun to defile myself!
When Doc was so drunk that he was seeing double; I have two guns. One for each of you.
And another Doc, from another western;
Doc Brown: Marty, we all have to make decisions that affect the course of our lives. You’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do. And I’ve gotta do what I’ve gotta do.
Being someone’s Huckleberry is to be their true friend.
worldwidewords.org
When you want to shoot , shoot . Don’t talk !
“The Good the Bad and the Ugly”
Still doesn’t explain the way Doc used it though, does it? Or am I dense?
Follow the link provided by Zebra. The key is in this part of the citation: “To be one’s huckleberry — usually as the phrase I’m your huckleberry — is to be just the right person for a given job, or a willing executor of some commission.”
When Doc responds to Ringo’s drunken demand to the Earps*, he’s offering himself as the appropriate foil. As he explains later in the film during their final showdown, “We started a game we never got to finish. ‘Play for Blood,’ remember?”
*[sub]“I want your blood. And I want your souls. And I want 'em both right now!”[/sub]
Jackson (an Indian farmhand) to Kid Shelleen (Lee Marvin) who is on the fourth day after a three day drunk-
Jackson: Good Lord Kid! Your eyes!
Shelleen: You oughtta see 'em from my side…
Cat Ballou
A teenaged girl (possibly a prostitute) is apologizing to her father (Walter Brennan), telling him she’s not sure she killed the mark/trick (Jimmy Stewart) she just took into the back of the cave where her father operates his piracy operation.
Pirate (Brennan): Well done, daughter.
Girl: I ain’t so sure. He was hard-muscled. I could feel the blade just kinda skitter along his ribs.
Pirate: Aw, you just need more practice, that’s all. It’s a pity you ain’t got the knack your ma had… Lord rest her soul.
How the West Was Won
Pardon the hijack, but there was an episode of MAS*H on which Radar, imitating John Wayne, performed that line- 10 years before the movie premiered.
Radar was implied to be psychic in the TV show, and was explicitly psychic in the novel series.
All of Silverado is finely crafted.
From A Fistful of Dollars (and surprised I’m first to it):
"You see, that’s what I want to talk to you about. He’s feelin’ real bad. (Huh?) My mule! You see, he got all riled up when you went and fired those shots at his feet. (Hey, you makin’ some kinda joke?) Mmm, no! You see, I understand you men were just playin’ around, but the mule, he just doesn’t get it! Course, if you were to all apologize…
(laughter)
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."
Dead Man:
Nobody: "That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written with blood. "
also: “Stupid fucking white man”
My all-time favorite is from Little Big Man:
Working in IT, I have found this saying is almost always appropriate.