# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/61 "2008-05-19T17:57:32Z")
From the greatest spaghetti western ever made-_My Name Is Nobody_: Jack Beauregard(Henry Fonda):" 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." ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/62 "2008-05-19T18:05:17Z")
[QUOTE=Bayard] I “neverminded” my post, because I didn’t want to misquote such a fine scene. I do remember Sundance’s reply to your line, though. “Love to.” [/QUOTE] IMDB to the resuce > [@](#): > > [Harvey has challenged Butch to fight for control of the Hole-in-the-Wall gang] > Harvey Logan: Guns or knives? > Butch Cassidy: Neither? > Harvey Logan: Pick. > Butch Cassidy: I don’t want to shoot with you Harvey. > Harvey Logan: [draws a big knife] Anything you say, Butch. > [Butch walks over to Sundance] > Butch Cassidy: [in a low voice] Maybe there’s a way to make a profit in this. Bet on Logan. > Sundance Kid: I would, but who’d bet on you? > Harvey Logan: Sundance, when we’re done, and he’s dead, you’re welcome to stay. > Butch Cassidy: [low voice, to Sundance] Listen, I don’t mean to be a sore loser, but when it’s done, if I’m dead, kill him. > Sundance Kid: [low voice to Butch] Love to. > [waves to Harvey and smiles] > Butch Cassidy: No, no, not yet. Not until me and Harvey get the rules straightened out. > Harvey Logan: Rules? In a knife fight? No rules. > [Butch immediately kicks Harvey in the groin] > Butch Cassidy: Well, if there aint’ going to be any rules, let’s get the fight started. Someone count. 1,2,3 go. > Sundance Kid: [quickly] 1,2,3, go. > [Butch knocks Harvey out] > Flat Nose Curry: I was rooting for you all along, Butch. > Butch Cassidy: Well, thank you, Flatnose. That’s what sustained me in my time of trouble. ---
**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 19, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/63 "2008-05-19T18:08:53Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] IMDB to the resuce [/QUOTE] Ha! I wasn’t too far off with my remembered (now redacted) version. I guess that happens after about the 15th viewing. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/64 "2008-05-19T18:58:41Z")
Another classic from _The Magnificent Seven_: Calvera: What I don’t understand is why a man like you took the job in the first place, hmm? Why, huh? Chris: I wonder myself. Calvera: No, come on, come on, tell me why. Vin: It’s like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, “Why?” Calvera: And? Vin: He said, “It seemed to be a good idea at the time.” I lived in El Paso for 20 years. I understand completely. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/65 "2008-05-19T20:03:10Z")
Definitly a lesser work, but I’ve always liked this line from the made-for-TV movie _El Diablo_: Billy Ray: You just shot that man in the back! Van Leek: Well, his back was to me. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/66 "2008-05-19T20:38:40Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] 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. [/QUOTE] Yeah, Josey has some great lines. Dyin’ ain’t much of a living, boy is one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/67 "2008-05-19T20:45:32Z")
_City Slickers:_ MITCH ROBBINS (BILLY CRYSTAL) [on learning that the herd they paid to drive is actually going to be slaughtered]: These cows . . . They trusted us! PHIL BERQUIST (DANIEL STERN): They didn’t trust us! They moved because we rode behind them and cracked our whips and shouted “Yah!” ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/68 "2008-05-19T21:27:59Z")
A couple of my favorites from **Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid** : Butch: “You call that cover?” Sundance: “You call that running?” Sundance: “I can’t swim.” Butch: “Well, hell, the fall will probably kill you.” And my favorite from **The Magnificient Seven** : The young fellow with James Coburn (Horst Bucholtz?)hadn’t done his job and one of the bad guys had gotten away and at impossible range Coburn’s character shoots the villain off his horse with his colt. The young fellow goes on and on about how great the shot was. Coburn (shaking his head after a long pause): “I was aiming at the horse.” ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/69 "2008-05-19T21:44:17Z")
Two from **Support Your Local Sheriff** : “I’m just passin’ through on my way to Australia.” “The bullet went through the hole.” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/70 "2008-05-19T21:58:56Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] May not meet the stringent definition of a Western, but here it is anyway: Wendell: You think this boy Moss has got any notion of the sorts of sons of bitches that’re huntin’ him? Ed Tom: I don’t know, he ought to. He’s seen the same things I’ve seen, and it’s certainly made an impression on me. [/QUOTE] It certainly \*feels \*like a western (and has some great lines) (we’re talking about No Country For Old Men, by the way) Wendell: It’s a mess, ain’t it, sherriff? Ed Tom: If it ain’t, it’ll do until the mess gets here. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/71 "2008-05-20T00:47:31Z")
From perhaps the best Western ever made, Shane: Shane: Not quite yet, we haven’t heard from your friend here (refering to hired killer Jake Palance as Wilson): Wilson: I wouldn’t push too far if I were you. Wilson: My fight ain’t with you. Shane: Ain’t with me Wilson? Wilson: No it ain’t Shane. Ryker: I wouldn’t pull on Wilson, Shane. 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: I’ve heard that you are a low down Yankee liar. Wilson: Prove it. Shane then butchers the lot of them. The tension is incredible. Just an amazing scene in one of the finest movies of all time. And from a very underrated Western, Lonesome Dove: NYT Report to Tommy Lee Jone’s character Captain Coll: But they say you’re a man of vision! Captain Coll: Looks away and thinks about all that has happened: Vision? That’s one hell of a vision. ---
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[QUOTE=Lochdale] From perhaps the best Western ever made, Shane: Shane: I’ve heard that you are a low down Yankee liar. [/QUOTE] Cause he had killed Frank “Stonewall” Torrey, the Southern guy played by [Elisha Cook.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176879/) Cook was not only in \*The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep \* and _Shane,_ but played Kirk’s attorney in an episode of _Star Trek._ 🙂 ---
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[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] _City Slickers:_ MITCH ROBBINS (BILLY CRYSTAL) [on learning that the herd they paid to drive is actually going to be slaughtered]: These cows . . . They trusted us! PHIL BERQUIST (DANIEL STERN): They didn’t trust us! They moved because we rode behind them and cracked our whips and shouted “Yah!” [/QUOTE] Ah yes, good one! Billy Crystal, shaking a cow’s birth fluid off his arm: “This was NOT in the brochure!” ---
**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 20, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/74 "2008-05-20T03:38:18Z")
From _Cat Ballou_: Jackson Two-Bears: He’s a murderer, a hired killer. His nose was bit off in a fight. Frankie Ballou: If I was gonna be scared, I’d be scared of the fella who bit it off, not him! Jackson Two-Bears: Kid, Kid, what a time to fall off the wagon. Look at your eyes. Kid Sheleen: What’s wrong with my eyes? Jackson Two-Bears: Well they’re red, bloodshot. Kid Sheleen: You ought to see 'em from my side. Clay Boone: We can’t hold up the train. Cat: Why not? Clay Boone: Lots of reasons. Cat: Name 'em. Clay Boone: We’re rustlers, not train robbers. Cat: Well, if people didn’t try something new, there wouldn’t be hardly any progress at all. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/75 "2008-05-20T06:47:21Z")
[QUOTE=jsc1953] It certainly \*feels \*like a western (and has some great lines) (we’re talking about No Country For Old Men, by the way) Wendell: It’s a mess, ain’t it, sherriff? Ed Tom: If it ain’t, it’ll do until the mess gets here. [/QUOTE] I’ve been tempted to post that, being from Texas and all. It’s a western for me and more importantly a great line. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/76 "2008-05-20T13:07:13Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t fight the hypothetical] I’ve been tempted to post that, being from Texas and all. It’s a western for me and more importantly a great line. [/QUOTE] That’s very linear, Sheriff. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/77 "2008-05-20T14:06:02Z")
Another from Unforgiven, Will Munny speaking to the writer: “I was lucky in the order… but I’ve always been lucky when it comes to killin’ folks.” ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729/78 "2008-05-20T14:19:41Z")
Not great but greatly amusing (at least I found it so). **Hopalong Cassidy:** [_reacting to a knife that has been thrown at him by Slim_] Where I come from, we don’t like people that throw knives at men’s backs. Law of the Pampas (1939) As if there were places where they _did_ like people that threw knives at men’s backs! 🙂 ---
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Rather than starting a new thread on YouTube clips from great Westerns, and since I didn’t participate earlier in this thread, I’m hoping that nudging this zombie won’t annoy more folks than the ones who might like to add some clips of their own. Shane 1953 Jack Palance - And where do you think you're going? Low Down Yankee Lier [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2yU5M-3F--M/hqdefault.jpg "Best Ending To a Movie. 3:10 To Yuma") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yU5M-3F--M) Best Ending To a Movie. 3:10 To Yuma Top 10 Western Movie Gunfights Top 10 Western Movies ---
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Long as it’s bumped… The whole “[Endeavor to persevere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRX6hSGeZs4)” speech, delivered so wonderfully deadpan by Chief Dan George, from Outlaw Josey Wales. Among Westerns fans, sometimes all ya gotta say is “Endeavor to persevere.” What’s the movie where John Wayne (?) rebukes someone who is drinking sloppily: “Careful, some of that’s getting in your mouth.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-western-movie-lines/449729.md?page=5)