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Joe (A Fistful of Dollars)3 quotes
You shoot to kill, you better hit the heart. — Joe (A Fistful of Dollars) · 1964No, no. When a man's got money in his pocket, he begins to appreciate peace. — Joe (A Fistful of Dollars) · 1964I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. 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. — Joe (A Fistful of Dollars) · 196440-Year-Old Mattie Ross2 quotes
You must pay for everything in this world, one way or another. There is nothin' free except the grace of God. — 40-Year-Old Mattie Ross · 2010Time just gets away from us. — 40-Year-Old Mattie Ross · 2010Bill Munny2 quotes
It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have. — Bill Munny · 1992Deserve's got nothin' to do with it. — Bill Munny · 1992Blondie2 quotes
Every gun makes its own tune. — Blondie · 1966You see in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend—those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. — Blondie · 1966Cherry Valance2 quotes
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun—a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere. — Cherry Valance · 1948You're fast with that gun, Matt. Awful fast. But your heart's soft. Too soft. Might get you hurt some day. — Cherry Valance · 1948Doc Holliday2 quotes
Make no mistake—It's not revenge he's after. It's a reckonin'. — Doc Holliday · 1993Evidently, Mr. Ringo's an educated man, how I really hate him. — Doc Holliday · 1993El Guapo2 quotes
Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you. — El Guapo · 1986Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and find out that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora. — El Guapo · 1986Howard2 quotes
Yeah, I know what gold does to men's souls. — Howard · 1948Water's precious. Sometimes it can be more precious than gold. — Howard · 1948J.B. Books2 quotes
I'm a dying man, scared of the dark. — J.B. Books · 1976Friend, there's nobody up there shooting back at you. It isn't always being fast or even accurate that counts. It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull a trigger. I won't. — J.B. Books · 1976John Williams2 quotes
It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away. — John Williams · 1960You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you-that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. — John Williams · 1960Martin Howe2 quotes
People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care. — Martin Howe · 1952You risk your skin catchin' killers and the juries turn 'em loose so they can come back and shoot at ya again. If you're honest, you're poor your whole life, and in the end you wind up dyin' all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothin'. For a tin star. — Martin Howe · 1952Rooster Cogburn2 quotes
Well, if it ain't loaded and cocked, it don't shoot! — Rooster Cogburn · 2010I never shot nobody I didn't have to. — Rooster Cogburn · 2010Amy Fowler Kane1 quote
Don't try to be a hero! You don't have to be a hero, not for me! — Amy Fowler Kane · 1952Bartender1 quote
If talk was money, Doc, you'd be the best customer I got. — Bartender · 1939Bonnie Rayburn1 quote
No, I like baseball. I just never understood how you guys can spend so much time discussing it. I mean, I've been to games, but I don't memorize who played third base for Pittsburgh in 1960. — Bonnie Rayburn · 1991Captain Fletcher1 quote
Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining. — Captain Fletcher · 1976Col. Douglas Mortimer1 quote
No. The question isn't indiscreet, but the answer could be. — Col. Douglas Mortimer · 1965Col. Stonehill1 quote
I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world as it is is vexin' enough. — Col. Stonehill · 2010Curtin1 quote
You know, the worst ain't so bad when it finally happens. Not half as bad as you figure it'll be before it's happened. — Curtin · 1948Django1 quote
I'm curious what makes you so curious. — Django · 2012Doc Josiah Boone1 quote
Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization. — Doc Josiah Boone · 1939Dusty Bottoms1 quote
No, we will not die like dogs, we will fight like lions because we are the three amigos! — Dusty Bottoms · 1986Ethan Edwards1 quote
I don't believe in surrenders. Nope, I still got my saber, Reverend. Didn't turn it into no plowshare neither. — Ethan Edwards · 1956Eula1 quote
I know enough about men to steer clear of them. — Eula · 1975Fred C. Dobbs1 quote
Conscience. What a thing. If you believe you got a conscience it'll pester you to death. But if you don't believe you got one, what could it do t'ya? — Fred C. Dobbs · 1948Gold Hat1 quote
Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges. — Gold Hat · 1948Hedley Lamarr1 quote
My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Hedley Lamarr · 1974Helen Ramirez1 quote
You're a good looking boy, you have big broad shoulders, but he is a man. It takes more than big broad shoulders to make a man, Harvey, and you have a long way to go. — Helen Ramirez · 1952Johnny Ringo1 quote
I want your blood, and I want your soul, and I want them both right now. — Johnny Ringo · 1993