- [Grimes lights a cigar]
- Grimes: Smoke bother you?
- Audra Favor: Would you put it out if I said it did?
- Grimes: Oh, yeah. My momma taught me to remove my hat and my cigar in the presence of a lady. Whatever else I take off depends on how lucky I get.
- Grimes: Mister, you've got alot of hard bark on you walkin' down here like this. Now, I owe you. You put two holes in me.
- John Russell: Usually enough for most of 'em.
- Grimes: Don't try it again, that Vaquero is more than a fair hand.
- Grimes: You got the money?
- John Russell: Guess I brought my dirty laundry down by mistake.
- Grimes: Let me see it.
- John Russell: Look for yourself.
- Grimes: [opens bag, pulls out a handful of clothes] Well now, what d'ya suppose hell's gonna look like?
- John Russell: We all die, just a question of when.
- Audra Favor: I can't imagine eating a dog and not thinking anything of it.
- John Russell: You even been hungry, lady? Not just ready for supper. Hungry enough so that your belly swells?
- Audra Favor: I wouldn't care how hungry I got. I know I wouldn't eat one of those camp dogs.
- John Russell: You'd eat it. You'd fight for the bones, too.
- Audra Favor: Have you ever eaten a dog, Mr. Russell?
- John Russell: Eaten one and lived like one.
- Audra Favor: Dear me.
- [last lines]
- Mexican Bandit: [as he is just about to die having been shot by John Russell] I would like at least to know his name.
- Mendez: He was called John Russell.
- [Grimes has just delivered an ultimatum to Mendez and the others]
- John Russell: Hey. I got a question. How are you planning to get back down that hill?
- Grimes: Now you wait a minute! I'm getting back down the same way I came up! (Begins running back down the hill. Russell shoots him as he is running)
- Jessie: [as Grimes crawls away after being shot] Cicero Grimes, meet John Russell.
- Mexican Bandit: [coming up the hill, waving a red handkerchief tied to a stick] Hey, hombre!
- John Russell: [Russell finishes loading his rifle and goes to see what the Mexican Bandit wants]
- Mexican Bandit: Look amigo, how close you come!
- [indicating the wound on his stomach]
- John Russell: I tried to do better; I think you moved.
- Mexican Bandit: You can be sure I move! How do you prefer them, eh, tied to a tree?
- John Russell: That'd be nice.
- Mexican Bandit: You like to pull the trigger, eh?
- John Russell: I can do it again for you.
- Jessie: That soldier would have helped you and you know it.
- John Russell: I didn't ask for any.
- Jessie: He didn't even have a gun.
- John Russell: That's his business he don't wanna carry one.
- Jessie: It takes a lot to light a fire under you, doesn't it.
- John Russell: If it's alright with you, lady, I just didn't feel like bleeding for him. And even if it isn't alright with you.
- John Russell: [when the Mexican Bandit comes up the hill to demand the money or they will shoot Mrs. Favor] Shoot her.
- John Russell: The dead are dead. You ought to bury them.
- Jessie: I'm sure that's good advice. Trouble is, Mr. Russell, I think you feel the same way about the living.
- Mexican Bandit: [Russell and Mendez have ambushed Grimes' gang] Hey, hombre! A compliment on your shooting! You put a hole in me! Whew. I never had a bellyache like this since I'm a little boy. Hey amigo! Friend! I am going to give you back this bullet.
- Jessie: And we got him a marble headstone. It had his name on it, and underneath, we had them put, "In the Fullness of His Years." Is that all right with you?
- John Russell: I'd settle for that on my own slide.
- Jessie: Well, what do you figure yours is going to read?
- John Russell: Shot Dead, probably.
- Jessie: Don't people take to you, Mr. Russell?
- John Russell: It only takes one who doesn't.
- Grimes: [after going through Favor's luggage and taking out the money] Looks like you did good and we did better.
- Lamar Dean: That was pretty smart, billin' the government for food for the Indians and then keepin' the money while them poor Indians starve to death.
- Grimes: You know, the thing is; he ought to be over here with us instead of standin' over there
- [laughs]
- Doris: You're just saying that so we won't go down there.
- John Russell: They'll kill you both. That's why I'm saying it.
- Braden: I been working since I was ten years old, Jessie, cleaning spittoons at a dime a day. It's now thirty years later, and all I can see out the window here is a dirt road going nowhere. The only thing that changes the view is the spotted dog lifting his leg against the wall over there. Saturday nights, I haul out the town drunks. I get their 25-cent dinners and their rotgut liquor heaved up over the front of my one good shirt. I wear three pounds of iron strapped to my leg. That makes me fair game for any punk cowboy who's had one too many. No, Jess, I don't need a wife. I need out.
- Mendez: You can be white, Mexican, or Indian, but I think it pays you to be a white man for a while. Put yourself on the winning side for a change.
- John Russell: Is that what you are?
- Mendez: Well, a Mexican's closer to it than a White Mountain Apache, I can tell you that!
- John Russell: Hit something, Mendez, first the men, then the horses.
- Mendez: I don't know. Just to sit here and wait to kill them?
- John Russell: If there was some other way, we'd do it.
- Mendez: Maybe we can keep going and try to outrun them.
- John Russell: If you run, they're gonna catch you, they're gonna kill you. You believe that more than you believe anything.
- Mendez: All right.
- John Russell: And try not to puke. You may have to lie in it for a long time.
- Lamar Dean: [Russell has climbed to the top of the stage] What are you doin' up there?
- John Russell: Gettin' my things.
- Lamar Dean: You figurin' on going some place?
- John Russell: Why stay here?
- Lamar Dean: Just how far do you thin you're gonna get?
- John Russell: That's to find out.
- Lamar Dean: [takes one water bag] Now how far did you say you were gonna get?
- Mendez: Leave us some water!
- Lamar Dean: [shoots the remaining water bag] Now how far?
- John Russell: Oh about as far as Delgado's.
- Lamar Dean: [stops, turns and looks back] What does that mean?
- John Russell: Maybe if we all get thirsty we'll go to Delgado's and get some *mezcal*.
- John Russell: You better put down that gun. You got two ways to go, put it down or use it. Even if you tie me, you're gonna be dead.
- Grimes: [to his assocates] Throw down two saddles.
- Grimes: [to Audra] You're comin' with us.
- Audra Favor: No, I think I'll stay here.
- Grimes: You will be all right.
- Audra Favor: I'll be *all right* here.
- Grimes: One way or another, you're comin' with us.
- Braden: Hey, what's going on?
- Jessie: I'm moving you out. I want you to take your socks, your cigar stubs, your long johns, and your nickel-plated sheriff's badge, and amble back down the hall to your own room.
- Braden: I like it here.
- Jessie: Can't quite remember how you got squatter's rights in here, anyhow. Seems to me you came by one night to ask for an extra blanket and stayed a year.
- John Russell: Glad to buy you dinner.
- Jessie: There's a lot of men who'll do that, Mr. Russell.
- John Russell: Well, I'd just as soon make it breakfast.
- Mrs. Delgado: I don't think this meat is fresh.
- Jessie: Well, don't think about it. Just cook it.
- Mrs. Delgado: But it smells funny. You think it'll be all right?
- Jessie: Yeah, if you put a lot of chili peppers into it. I wouldn't eat it myself on a bet.
- Jessie: I don't turn your pants pockets inside out. I don't say no in the middle of the night. When you got the stomach ache, I'm ready with the bicarbonate of soda. When you get a cold, I'm the one who brings up the croup kettle. I know I'm not twenty anymore, but that's not too bad either, because over the years I have learned how to control my temper.
- Favor: One thing you need to learn about white people is that they stick together.
- John Russell: They'd better.
- Jessie: What did you get married for? So you got the right to sleep in the same bed?
- Billy Lee: I guess.
- Jessie: Well, that part of it isn't going to last, believe it or not. She'll get fat and you'll get old. Then what?
- Billy Lee: I'm not worried about then. I'm worried about now. You try living with the 24-hour bellyaching and see how you like it.
- Jessie: That's the price you pay if you want it where you can nudge it in the night.
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