Who first Said “Never bring a knife to a gun fight”? I know Sean Connery said something like “Leave it to an Italian to bring a knife to a gun fight” in the Untouchables, but there is some debate in my office as to whether or not this phrase was made famous by someone else.
An American Indian, no doubt…
Ouch.
Jim Bowie at the Alamo?
Caius Jusius Caesar.
Jesus Christ
No idea who first said it, but came across this quote while searching google that I found quite amusing :
“Those who live by the sword get shot by those that don’t.”
Was it in West Side Story? Or am I just remembering someone actually bringing a knife to a gun fight in that movie? I haven’t seen it in years.
I think Sean might’ve said that line more than once in The Untouchables, but the word was wop, not Italian.
Darned if I can give a cite, but my tiny little brain is telling me that this is a quote from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. One of the Hole in the Wall gang has challenged Butch’s leadership, brandishing a knife and challenging him to a fight. Butch’s response was classic.
Yeah, that would be Harvey Logan (played by Ted Cassidy, who had also played Lurch) challenging Butch to a guns-or-knives fight near the beginning of the movie. The quote the OP cites is nowhere expresssed here, though:
I’m well aware of the original quote. I chose to use an approximate quote because the offensive word ‘wop’ was not important to context of the quote that I was hunting down.