Chisum Quotes

Jess Evans: That man there, he's meaner than a gut shot grizzly.

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Jess Evans: Why get in a frazzle over Chisum? You turn me loose on him... there'll be a sudden funeral right here in Lincoln.
Lawrence Murphy: Uh-huh. Yours.
Jess Evans: How's that?
Lawrence Murphy: Do you play chess?
Jess Evans: Chess? What the hell has that got to do with Chisum?
Lawrence Murphy: Everything. You just leave him alone. I'll take care of Mr. Chisum.
Sheriff Brady: That ain't gonna be easy.
Lawrence Murphy: You're right. But see, there's a fundamental difference between Mr. Chisum and me.
Sheriff Brady: Yeah, what's that?
Lawrence Murphy: Mr. Chisum is a man who respects the law. [Chuckles]
Lawrence Murphy: Around here, I'm the man who owns it.

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John Simpson Chisum: We may have to be neighbors, but I don't have to be neighborly.

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John Simpson Chisum: [lighting the sergeant's cigar] Sargeant, there's one thing I oughtta tell you; if you lay a hand on White Buffalo again, I'll kill ya'.

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Morton: You're going to shoot us, ain't you Chisum?
John Simpson Chisum: I thought about it. Then I thought about something Henry Tunstall once said. He watched a man walk to the gallows... saw him hang. He said it was ghastly. Well, I've seen men hang, and that's the word - ghastly. You two are going to hang.

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