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Quotes of Movie: "Lonesome Dove" [1989]

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

  • Gus McCrae:
    It's not dying I'm talking about, it's living.

  • [after giving Newt a gun]



    Woodrow Call:
    Better to have it and not need it than it is to need it and not have it.

  • Gus McCrae:
    Only way to get better food around here is by shooting Bolivar. And another thing, Bol, I want you to quit whackin' that dinner bell for supper. You can hit it at noon if you want to, but lay off doin' it in the evenin'. See, a man with any sense at all can tell when it's sundown, without you whackin' that bell.



    Bolivar:
    General Robert E. Lee freed the slaves. I can whack it if I want to.



    Gus McCrae:
    It was Abe Lincoln that freed the slaves, Bol, not General Lee.



    Pea Eye Parker:
    He didn't free Mexicans, anyway, Bol. It was Americans he freed.



    Gus McCrae:
    You're in over your head, Pea. It was a bunch of Africans Abe Lincoln freed. No more American than Call here.



    Woodrow Call:
    I'm American! By God!



    Gus McCrae:
    You was born in Scotland, as I recall. You was still draggin' on the tit when they brought you over here.



    Woodrow Call:
    I reckon I'm as American as anyone from Tennessee.

  • Woodrow Call:
    [after handing the gun to Newt] It is better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it.

  • Woodrow Call:
    [looks over at Newt after Clara gives Newt the horse] Women!

  • Woodrow Call:
    [Woodrow walking towards Gus] I 'spect you been sittin' up all night reading the good book.

  • Janey:
    [to Joe] You ever ate a frog?

  • [Gus refuses to have his leg amputated knowing he will die if he doesn't]



    Woodrow Call:
    What do you want legs for anyway? You don't like to do nothing but sit on the porch and drink whiskey!



    Gus McCrae:
    I like to kick a pig every once in a while. How would I do that?

  • Woodrow Call:
    I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

  • Gus McCrae:
    Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago.

  • [referring to the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign]



    Woodrow Call:
    ...and if that ain't bad enough you got all them Greek words on there, too.



    Gus McCrae:
    I told you, Woodrow, a long time ago it ain't Greek, it's Latin.



    Woodrow Call:
    Well what does it say in Latin?


    [Gus blusters some gibberish]



    Woodrow Call:
    For all you know it invites people to rob us.



    Gus McCrae:
    Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life.

  • Woodrow Call:
    You ever get tired o' loafin' I reckon you can get a job waitin' on tables.



    Gus McCrae:
    Oh, I had a job waitin' tables once. S' on a riverboat. I wasn't no older than Newt, there, but I hadda give it up.



    Newt:
    How come?



    Gus McCrae:
    Well I was, too young and pretty and the whores wouldn't let me alone.

  • Woodrow Call:
    Gus.



    Gus McCrae:
    What?



    Woodrow Call:
    Why not go up to Montana? It's a cattleman's paradise to hear Jake tell it.



    Gus McCrae:
    Sounds like a damn wilderness if you ask me. And we're a shade old to start fightin' Indians all over again, don't you think?



    Woodrow Call:
    I mean it, Gus. Why not, go north with a herd?



    Gus McCrae:
    I'll tell you what. You ride on up there, clear out the Iindians, build a little cabin, get a nice fire goin' in the fireplace and me and Jake will gather a herd and then we'll come on up.



    Woodrow Call:
    I'd like to see the herd that you and Jake could gather. Herd o' whores, maybe.



    Gus McCrae:
    Well you ain't no more a cattleman than I am, Call, and y'know it, too.



    Woodrow Call:
    I wanna do it, Gus. I wanna see that country, before the bankers and lawyers all git it.

  • Gus McCrae:
    I could kick you for givin' him all them ideas about Montana. Now we're gonna suffer for the rest of our damn lives.



    Jake Spoon:
    Yeah, I forgot how determined he can get, once an idea takes root.

  • Clara Allen:
    Here, Mr. Johnson. Meet your son. (Hands baby to July Johnson, who holds him in his arms.) Well, that's a good sign. I guess you'd at least catch him if somebody threw him off a roof.

  • Gus McCrae:
    I'm just tryin' to keep everything in balance, Woodrow. You do more work than you got to, so it's my obligation to do less.

  • Gus McCrae:
    Well, I'm glad I ain't scared to be lazy.

  • Pea Eye Parker:
    What's it read, Gus?



    Gus McCrae:
    It says, "Josh Deets. Served with me 30 years. Fought In 21 engagements with the Comanche and the Kiowa. Cheerful in all weathers. Never shirked a task. Splendid behavior." That's what it says.



    Pea Eye Parker:
    My lord. Old Deets is gone. My lord.

  • Woodrow Call:
    I guess it's our fault we should've shot sooner.



    Gus McCrae:
    I don't want even to begin thinking Woodrow of all the things we should have done for this good man.

  • Gus McCrae:
    You know how it works Jake, you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. I'm sorry you crossed the line.

  • Jake Spoon:
    I didn't see no line Gus. I was just trying to get through the territory without getting scalped, that's all.

  • Woodrow Call:
    We come to this place to make money. They wasn't nothin' about fun in the deal.



    Gus McCrae:
    What are you talkin' about? You don't even like money. You like money even less than you like fun, if that's possible.

  • Roy Suggs:
    What did you find?



    Dan Suggs:
    Nothing but his old watch. Damn sodbusters!



    Jake Spoon:
    You shot those two men for a watch?



    Dan Suggs:
    Shot 'em, now I'm going to hang 'em.



    Eddie Suggs:
    Hang 'em? Dang, you beat all! I've never heard of hanging dead men.



    Dan Suggs:
    Shot 'em, now I'm gonna hang 'em, then I'm gonna burn 'em! Damn sodbusters. Can't ever be too dead to suit me.

  • Clara Allen:
    Sometimes it seems like grave digging is all we do around here, don't it Cholo? What do you think happens when we die?



    Cholo:
    Not much. You are just dead.



    Clara Allen:
    Maybe it's not as big a change as we think. Maybe you just go back to where you lived or near your family, or wherever you were the happiest. Only you're just a spirit now... and you don't have the troubles the living have.

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