# Great Western Movie Lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729 "2008-05-18T06:01:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/1 "2008-05-18T06:01:27Z")
I watched “Seven Men From Now” where Randolph Scot says: “I’d hate to have to kill you, Masters.” And Lee Marvin replies, “I’d hate to have you try.” From “The War Wagon”; they just shot two Bad Guys. Kirk Douglas:“Mine hit the ground first.” John Wayne: “Mine was taller.” ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/2 "2008-05-18T06:15:29Z")
John Wayne in _McClintock!_: > [@](#): > > I know I’m gonna use good judgement. I haven’t lost my temper in 40 years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this monring, might have got somebody killed… and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won’t, I won’t. [_Pauses_] The hell I won’t. [_Belts man in the mouth_] ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/3 "2008-05-18T06:17:50Z")
From **The Undefeated:** \*Ann Langdon: You went out there to talk! Why did you kill that man? John Henry Thomas: Conversation just kinda dried up, ma’am. \* _“That’s the biggest Reb I ever saw.” “That’s the biggest **anything** I ever saw!”_ “Windage and elevation, Mrs. Langdon. Windage and elevation.” ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/4 "2008-05-18T10:56:09Z")
\*\*Unforgiven \*\* _Little Bill:_ Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man! _Will Munny:_ Well, he should have armed himself if he’s going to decorate his saloon with my friend. _English Bob:_ Well, actually, what I heard was that you fell off your horse, drunk of course, and that you broke your bloody neck. _Little Bill:_ I heard that one myself, Bob. Hell, I even thought I was dead 'til I found out it was just that I was in Nebraska. _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. And my favorite; _Will Munny:_ All right, I’m coming out. Any man I see out there, I’m gonna shoot him. Any sumbitch takes a shot at me, I’m not only gonna kill him, but I’m gonna kill his wife, all his friends… and burn his damn house down. **The Good,The Bad and the Ugly** _Man With No Name:_ You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/5 "2008-05-18T10:57:29Z")
_I don’t think it’s nice, you laughing. You see, my mule don’t like people laughing. Gets the crazy idea you’re laughing at him. Now if you’ll apologise, like I know you’re going to…I might convince him that you really didn’t mean it._ If you ask me, that’s one very sensitive mule. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/6 "2008-05-18T11:43:39Z")
From Once Upon a Time in The West; Charles “Harmonica” Bronson is greeted at a train station by three guys who are actually there to kill him. Noting that they don’t have a horse for him, he realises whats about to happen. He asks where his horse is… Bad Guy (Laughing); Well, Boy… Looks like we’re shy one horse. Harmonica; No… You brought two too many. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/7 "2008-05-18T12:07:46Z")
From _The Virginian_ (the 1929 version with Gary Cooper): Trampas: When I want to know anything from you, I’ll tell you, you long-legged sonova - The Virginian: If you wanna call me that, smile. Trampas: With a gun against my belly, I always smile. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/8 "2008-05-18T12:19:53Z")
“Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?” -Josey Wales, The Outlaw Josey Wales "To hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms. " -Josey Wales, The Outlaw Josey Wales ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/9 "2008-05-18T12:31:01Z")
From El Dorado: Cole Thornton (John Wayne): “What about learning to use a gun?” Mississippi (James Caan): “Johnny didn’t believe in guns. He thought…” Cole Thornton: “He’s dead. Think about that.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/10 "2008-05-18T15:22:48Z")
“Fill your hand, you son of a bitch.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/11 "2008-05-18T15:28:22Z")
Some more good ones from _The Outlaw Josey Wales_: Josey Wales: You a bounty hunter? Bounty hunter: A man’s got to do something for a living these days. Josey Wales: Dying ain’t much of a living, boy. Josey Wales: When I get to liking someone, they ain’t around long. Lone Watie: I notice when you get to disliking someone they ain’t around for long neither. Lone Watie: I didn’t surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/12 "2008-05-18T15:46:16Z")
**She Wore A Yellow Ribbon:** \*Captain Nathan Brittles: Were you ever scared, “Captain” Tyree? Sgt. Tyree: Yes, sir. Up to and includin’ now. \* ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/13 "2008-05-18T16:29:29Z")
John Wayne to the dealer while playing cards in _Flame of the Barbary Coast_ (I think that was the movie): “I’ll take the next one off the top.” ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/14 "2008-05-18T16:50:14Z")
From _The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance_: Tom Doniphon (John Wayne): “Liberty Valance is the toughest man south of the Picket Wire… next to me.” From _Tombstone_: Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer): “I wasn’t quite as sick as I let on.” From _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_: Mr. Garret (Strother Martin), to Butch and Sundance: “Morons. I’ve got morons on my team. Nobody is going to rob us going _down_ the mountain. We have got no money going _down_ the mountain. When we have the _money_, on the way _back_, then you can sweat.” ETA: From _The Shootist_, J.B. Books (John Wayne): “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 expect the same in return.” ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/15 "2008-05-18T17:59:45Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] _I don’t think it’s nice, you laughing. You see, my mule don’t like people laughing. Gets the crazy idea you’re laughing at him. Now if you’ll apologise, like I know you’re going to…I might convince him that you really didn’t mean it._ If you ask me, that’s one very sensitive mule. [/QUOTE] Sounds to me like a bit of a shit stirring mule that gets off by causing arguments between blokes and then gets a cheap thrill watching them fight each other. Went out with a bird like that once,I will never from now on use mules for baggage its asses or donkeys for me. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/16 "2008-05-18T18:10:11Z")
From **Silverado** , Mal has just got the drop on someone with his rifle: “Now, I don’t wanna shoot you, and you don’t wanna be dead.” ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/17 "2008-05-18T18:32:58Z")
From Tombstone: Billy Clanton: “You’re so drunk I bet you’re seein’ double.” Doc Holliday: “I have two guns…one for eacha’ ya.” ---
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“Mongo just pawn…in game of life.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/19 "2008-05-18T20:11:29Z")
[QUOTE=Bayard] Mr. Garret (Strother Martin), to Butch and Sundance: “Morons. I’ve got morons on my team.” [/QUOTE] I have this quote on a shirt I wear to tournaments sometimes. 😃 More from _Butch Cassidy_: \*Sundance Kid: Think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch? \* _Butch Cassidy: Hey, wait a minute. Sundance Kid: What? Butch Cassidy: You didn’t see Lefors out there, did you? Sundance Kid: Lefors? No. Butch Cassidy: Oh, good. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble._ ---
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[QUOTE=silenus] I have this quote on a shirt I wear to tournaments sometimes. 😃 More from _Butch Cassidy_: \*Sundance Kid: Think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch? \* _Butch Cassidy: Hey, wait a minute. Sundance Kid: What? Butch Cassidy: You didn’t see Lefors out there, did you? Sundance Kid: Lefors? No. Butch Cassidy: Oh, good. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble._ [/QUOTE] Card player: “You haven’t lost a hand since you got the deal. What’s the secret of your success?” Sundance: “Prayer.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729.md?page=2)