"Best Western Line" Topic

We did best villain and best historical character, so what is your favorite line from a Western?
I vote for Chief Dan George in LITTLE BIG MAN laying down in the rain to die, but deciding that he didn't want to get wet got and said, "Sometime the magic works, and sometimes it doesn't."
Count Natokina.

Rooster Cogburn: "Fill your hand, you sonofabitch!"

Gus McCrae: A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough.

Wobbles, yer wearing suspenders AND a belt. How can I trust a man who cant even trust his own pants to stay up?
-OUaTitOW

A hard choice for me but.

Josey Wales: "You gonna draw those pistols or whistle Dixie?!"

Or

MWNN: "Get three coffins ready…sorry make it four…my mistake."

"You brought two too many." Once Upon a Time in the West

Well, from the Pseudo Post-Modern period, filmed out West, "Make my Day".

Dyin ain't livin boy. Clint's speech to Little Bill before he shoots him and his deputies is pretty good too.

Thanks,

John

I think his speach before he walks into the street is the best. But for a single line:

"He should have armed himself."

"I thought you was dead" said by the hotel owner and Richard Boone (as the bad guy) to John Wayne in "Big Jake"

"Smile when you say that," from The Virginian.
"I'm your huckleberry," from Tombstone.
"Well, you're a daisy if you do," from Tombstone.

"I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, ers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull s, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, -kickers and Methodists."

Said to Rooster Cogburn, "That's big talk for a one eyed fat man!"

Excellent lines so far. guys.
Count Natokina.

"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
Count Natokina.

Clint Eastwood, "You want to bless 'em, bless 'em dry!" (2 Mules for Sister Sarah)

Trinity, "I'm too busy doing nothing!"

Trinity, "When you see this Lucifer tell him to go to hell!" (Trinity's Still My Name)

"Yep, thirty years older than you are. Had my back broke once and my hip twice. And on my worst day I could beat the Hell out of you!" John Wayne as Wil Anderson in "The Cowboys."

Yeah, I heard about you. I heard you're a cheap, no-good bar-room loafer. If I didn't have somethin' else on my mind I'd take them guns away from ya and slap ya cross-eyed.

Gregory Peck as Johnny Ringo in "The Gunfighter"

"You gonna skin that smoke wagon, or just stand there and bleed?" Wyatt Earp, Tombstone.

or

"I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, ers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull d*kes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, $h*t-kickers and Methodists." Hedly Lemarr, Blazing Saddles

or

"Buzzard's gotta eat same as worms." The Outlaw Josey Wales

Badges, Badges, we don't need no stinking badges
The actual line from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Dobbs: 'If you're the police where are your badges?'
Gold Hat: 'Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!'

And, it's "batches", not "badges".

Lone Watie: I'm an Indian, all right; but here in the Nation they call us the "civilized tribe". They call us "civilized" because we're easy to sneak up on. White men have been sneaking up on us for years.

"Oh, it's twue! It's twue!"

Shane:"I heard about you Wilson."
Wilson: "What've ya heard."

Shane:"I heard you're a low down Yankee liar."

Wilson:"Prove it."

BANG! BANG!
The rest is history.

"This isn't Dodge city and your not Bill Hickock". Quigly down under. Russ

The scene at the mud pit in McClintock

John Wayne:"Someone ought to punch you right in the face pilgrim. And I'm the man to do it, but I won't, I won't. The Hell I won't!"

OK, I bungled the line a little bit. So for your viewing pleasure, take a look for yourself:

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William H. Bonney: Hey, Peppin. I see you got Charley Crawford down there with you.
Peppin: Yeah, that's right, Bonney. We got a whole -
[Bonney goes to the window and shoots Charley Crawford]
William H. Bonney: Hey, Peppin. Charley Crawford's not with you anymore.

CARPETBAGGER: Your young friend could use some help. This is it. One dollar a bottle. It works wonders on wounds.

JOSEY: Works wonders on just about everything, huh?

CARPETBAGGER: It can do most anything.

JOSEY: (Spits wad of chewing tobacco onto the carpetbagger's jacket) How is it with stains?

"Am I good… or is Sweden just a very small country?"
(The Quick & the Dead)

"That's when you gotta get mean… pure, mad-dog mean."
(Josey Wales)

"What do you want?" "I'd 'a thought that was obvious, seein' as I been shootin' at ya!"
(Seraphim Falls)

"…kill me, then…" "I ain't wastin' a good bullet t' ease your pain, you son-of-a-bitch."
(Open Range)

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on."
(The Shootist)

'Cant beat a good bit of hickory…'
Mick

Swegen, C*********!

Wu deadwood

I know it should be Swearengen, but that's not what he said

Chon Wang? That's a terrible name for a cowboy. That's never gonna work!

Best Western Paddington Court Suites, Paddington, Central London

"Hold it! Next man makes a move, the gets it! "
Blazing Saddles

Or. Blazing Shaddles

Yeah but I shoot with this hand

'I smelled trouble, and refried beans"

From one of my Favourite Westerns.

Bill Dolworth: Maybe there's only one revolution, since the beginning, the good guys against the bad guys. Question is, who are the good guys?

[Bill Dolworth admires Maria Grant's cleavage]
Maria Grant: Yes?
Bill Dolworth: Just wondering… what makes you worth a hundred thousand dollars.
Maria Grant: Go to hell.
Bill Dolworth: Yes ma'am. I'm on my way.

J.W. Grant: You bastard.
Rico: Yes, Sir. In my case an accident of birth. But you, Sir, you're a self-made man.

Rico: So what else is on your mind besides hundred-proof women, 'n' ninety-proof whiskey, 'n' fourteen-carat gold?
Bill Dolworth: Amigo, you just wrote my epitaph!

Jake Sharp: We could all do with a rest.
Hans Ehrengard: A shave would be a relief, too.
Jake Sharp: So would a bath.
Bill Dolworth: Might as well throw in a woman. Any size, any age, any color. Any woman.

Jake Sharp: Mr. D, whatever got a loving man like you in the dynamite business?
Bill Dolworth: Well, I'll tell you. I was born with a powerful passion to create. I can't write, can't paint, can't make up a song…
Hans Ehrengard: So you explode things.
Bill Dolworth: Well that's how the world was born. Biggest damn explosion you ever saw.

Bill Dolworth: $100,000 for a wife? She must be a lot of woman!
Rico: Certain women have a way of changing boys into men and some men back into boys.

Rico: You're gonna have to get over this nasty habit of always losing your pants. It's not dignified.
Bill Dolworth: It's drafty, too.

Gary Cooper---'Say Mister-yer toothpicks on fire'

other guy-----' nope--its the latest thing from back east-called a cigaritte'

7 syllables from Gary Cooper, it must have been a record, his normal response was 'yep'.

"If they move…kill 'em"

Tuco had a lot of good lines, but the one I like best: "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk." ("The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly).

Taggert – "What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here? I hired you people to lay a couple of miles of track, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!"

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The Kid – "Boys! Oh boys! Lookee what I got here!"
Bart – "Where the white women at?"

Both from "Blazing Saddles"

"It's a hard thing killin' a man: you take away all he's got an all he's ever gonna have."

Fredd,
Then dynamite, not faith, will move that mountain into this pass. Peace, Brother.
Count Natokina.

:) yep Count Natokina, thats the film.

Chico: "That was a the greatest shot I ever saw!"

Brett: "The worst. I was aiming at the horse"

Butch Cassidy: Jeesh, all Bolivia can't look like this.
Sundance Kid: How do you know? This might be the garden spot of the whole country. People may travel hundreds of miles just to get to this spot where we're standing now. This might be the Atlantic City, New Jersey of all Bolivia for all you know.

I know it's not a western but I have to add:

Michael Caine: You Were Only Supposed To Blow The Bloody Doors Off

The Unforgiven:
Schofield Kid; "Well I guess they had it comin ".
William Muny; "We all have it comin Kid."

Outlaw Josey Wales:
Lone Wadie; "Hold on little lady. Hell's comin to breakfast."