True Grit (1969 film)

"I won't rest until Tom Chaney is barking in Hell."

"If I smelled as bad as you I wouldn't live near people."

"If in four months I could not find Tom Chaney, with a mark on his face like banished Cain, I would not advise others how to do so."

"I also notice that the men of Texas gouge their mounts with great brutal spurs and cultivate their hair like lettuce!"

"I want Tom Chaney hanged for killing my father! It's little to me how many dogs and senators he's killed in Texas."

"Those horses can't outrun Little Blackie! They're loaded down with fat men and iron!"

"I'm going! And it's not because you say I can't, and it's not because you say I can. I paid good cash money to be here, and I'm on my own business! Now, we'll have no more talk about it."

"My name is Mattie Ross, of Near Dardanelle in Yell County. My family owns property, and I don't know why I'm being treated like this!"

"Rooster Cogburn is no good friend of mine! He led us straight into your hands, and now he has left me with a gang of cut-throats! Is that what they call "grit" in Fort Smith? We call it something else in Yell County."

"Papa's marker is not what was ordered. I will make that wool-hatted fool of a stone man change it."

"Mr. Rat, I have a writ here that says you are to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now, It's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same! [to Mattie] See? He doesn't pay any attention to me. '[shoots the rat] You can't serve papers on a rat, baby sister. You either kill him or let him be."

"Baby sister, I was born game, and I mean to go out that way."

"General Price don't belong to me. He just rooms with me. Cats don't belong to nobody. 'Course, I depend on him."

"A fella that carries a big-bore Sharps carbine might come in handy… if we get jumped by elephants, or buffalo, or something."

"By God! She reminds me o' me!"

"LaBoeuf, if you get crosswise of me you'll think a ton of brick had fell on you! You'll wisht you was back at the Alamo with Travis!"

"It's a shame, a kid like Moon losing his leg. He's too young to be hoppin' around on a raw peg. Loves to dance too much, and sport!"

"DAMN a man that whistles!"

"Young fella, if you're looking for trouble, I'll accommodate you. Otherwise, leave it alone."

"Ned doesn't go around killing people for no reason. Had he a reason, he'd kill them."

"I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?"

"Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!"

"Damn that Texican! When you need him, he's dead."

"We've got to get you to a doctor or you'll be deader than he is!"

"Well, a gun that's unloaded and cocked ain't good for nothin'."

"The French is 'La Bourf'. I say 'La Beef'."

"I only take one step at a time. That's why I was given two feet."

"You can't take men by watching them run away!"

"I served under General Kirby Smith. And I don't have to hang my head when I say it."

"I ain't dead yet, you bushwhacker!"

"She draws him like a gun! [referring to Mattie's constant invocation of her lawyer's name]"

"I never busted a cap on a woman or anybody much under sixteen. But it's enough that you know that I'll do what I have to do."

"Most girls like little play-pretties. But you like guns, don't you?"

"All the Parmalees is touched, but Harold's the worst… no, their Ma's the worst, then comes Harold's brother Farrell… but they're all good shots."

"If that girl don't stay healthy, you don't neither, understand? And you don't get paid!"

"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!"

"Tom Chaney: A gun will say a whole lot quick!"

"Tom Chaney: Everything happens to me, and now I'm shot by a child!"

"Colonel Stonehill: Most people around here know of Rooster Cogburn and some people live to regret it. I would not be surprised to learn that he is a relative of yours."

"Colonel Stonehill: I just received word that a young girl fell head first down a fifty foot well on the Towson Road. I thought perhaps it was you."

"Moon: He never played me false until he killed me."

"Mexican Bob: My wounds healed by themselves - from the inside!"

"The strangest trio ever to track a killer."

"The strangest trio ever to track a killer. A fearless, one-eyed U.S. marshal who never knew a dry day in his life... a Texas ranger thirsty for bounty money... and a girl still wet behind the ears who didn't care what they were or who they were as long as they had true grit."

"A Brand New Brand Of American Frontier Story"