“Well fiddle, I can’t afford to buy a lot of land. You probably could the way you’ve been a bilking and gouging…”
“Oh, hush up! I’m trying to help you, for heaven sakes. It don’t cost a whole lot to buy a little lot.”
“If you change your mind me and ___ will be over at the Longbranch having a whole lot of little beers.”
“___, you can’t account for everything that happens to people who touch you. You know, I learned a long time ago, there are some things in this life that you just accept the way they are.”
“That’s pretty deep for a redhead.”
"I’m a pretty deep redhead."
“they’re too dumb to know they’re dead!”
“Don’t you think somebody oughta reckon with him, __?”
“Because it was my bullet that took his hand!”
“If you’re gonna to use that gun, you better start on me.”
“Except some women, of course, just ain’t nothing prettier than a full bottle.”
“As I understand it, Chaney… or Chelmsford, as he called himshelf in Texas… shot the senator’s dog. When the senator remonstrated, Chelmsford shot him as well. You could argue that the shooting of the dog was merely an instance of malum prohibitum, but the shooting of a senator is indubitably an instance of malum in se.”
“I am struck that ___ is shot, trampled, and nearly severs his tongue, and not only does not cease to talk, but spills the banks of English!”
“The chinaman is running them cheap shells on me again.”
“I thought you were going to say the sun was in your eyes. That is to say, your EYE.”
“We have no rodeo clowns in Yell County.”
"A saucy line will not get you far with me."
“I mean to kill you in one minute, ___. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker’s convenience. Which will you have?”
“I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!”
“I always go backwards when I’m backing up.”
“You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.”
“People do not give it credence that a young girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood. But it did happen. I was just 14 years of age when a coward by the name of ___ shot my father down and robbed him of his life and his horse and two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.”
“You give out very little sugar with your pronouncements. While I sat there watchin’ I gave some thought to stealin’ a kiss… though you are very young, and sick… and unattractive to boot. But now I have a mind to give you five or six good licks with my belt.”
“The wicked flee when none pursueth. Proverbs 28:1”
“I guess I have a $10 horse”
“If you would like to sleep in a coffin, it would be all right.”
“Make me out foolish in this girl’s/boy’s eyes.”
“I think she/he has got you pretty well figured.”
“Well, if it ain’t loaded and cocked, it don’t shoot!”
