The Virginian Quotes

Buster Floyd: Judge Harker has killed more men than a mule has tits.

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Hogy: I got me a way of life that just suits me to a 'T'. There ain't no place else that I'd want ta be. An' do you know what it cost me? Just the years that I've put into it and the few that I've got left ta put in. That ain't much of a price to pay considerin' what I got back in return. An' let me tell you somethin', mister. Here's where I belong, an' you couldn't buy me one thing if you spent every last million that you own.

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Trampas: This world isn't big enough for the both of us!

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Paul Leland: Yeah, well, you're killin' yourself. A friend can't be worth that!

Hogy: Well now, how would you know? Did you ever have one?

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Steven 'Steve': The only thing I don't like about this stealin' business is the hard work.

Trampas: [laughs] Hard work but easy pickin's.

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Trampas: Well, I heard the only way a man can get shot in the back is runnin' away.

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Virginian: When you call me that, smile.

Trampas: With a gun against my belly, I always smile.

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'Honey' Wiggin: Say, that boy's so smart he'd dry snow and sell it as sugar.

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Molly Stark Wood: I have several little boys just your age.

The Virginian: Do book learnin' do a cowhand any good?

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Mrs. 'Ma' Taylor: This is a new country we're building up. There's no room in for weaklings - men or women!

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Paul Leland: Why are you guys pushin' yourselves so hard?

Hogy: 'Cause there's a need for it, that's why. You think I took this job just for the dollar a day? No, sir! See them cattle yonder. Them cows all belong to some people that I call friends. It's been a tough year in the cattle business an' if we don't get this herd to Seattle before them California cattle hit the market, there's a lot of them people that's gonna go under. That's why men and time are important.

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Paul Leland: Yeah, well, you're killin' yourself. A friend can't be worth that!
Hogy: Well now, how would you know? Did you ever have one?

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Steve Andrews: A fine way to treat a lady!

Virginian: How was I to know she was a lady? She was with you, wasn't she?

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Steve Andrews: A fine way to treat a lady!

Virginian: How was I to know she was a lady? She was with you, wasn't she?

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The Virginian: If you want to call me that, smile.

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Trampas: You're liable to talk yourself into a heap of trouble, my friend.

The Virginian: Since when was I your friend, Trampas?

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Trampas: Well, who's talkin' to you?

The Virginian: I'm talkin' to you, Trampas!

Trampas: When I want to know anything from you, I'll tell ya, you long-legged son-of-a -...

The Virginian: [Trampas stops talking abruptly as the Virginian's pistol is pressed against his abdomen] If you want to call me that, smile!

Trampas: With a gun against my belly, I - I always smile!
[He grins broadly]

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Trampas: Well, who's talkin' to you?
The Virginian: I'm talkin' to you, Trampas!
Trampas: When I want to know anything from you, I'll tell ya, you long-legged son-of-a -...
The Virginian: [Trampas stops talking abruptly as the Virginian's pistol is pressed against his abdomen] If you want to call me that, smile!
Trampas: With a gun against my belly, I - I always smile! [He grins broadly]

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Virginian: When you call me that, smile.

Trampas: With a gun against my belly, I always smile.

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[The Virginian, Steve and Trampas meet Betsy out riding.]
Betsy: Yes you are.
Steve: I'm what?.
Betsy: Well I've been thinking about this all day, and trying to make up my mind. Yep, you're pretty!
Steve: Um... Thank you, Betsy.
Trampas: Well what about me?
Betsy: Uh... Funny.
The Virginian: What about me, Betsy?
Betsy: I'm going to marry you.
The Virginian: Yes ma'am.

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[Trampas and The Virginian are discussing Judge Garth's new four sided clock for the town square.]
Trampas: I wonder what that cost?
The Virginian: The Judge didn't say.
Trampas: Well if he's going to throw his money around, he could start by raising my wages.
The Virginian: Well at least this way he can see what he's getting for his money!
Trampas: Aw, Saturday's a bad day to put a thing like that up.
The Virginian: How come?
Trampas: Well, I was just thinking, it's goin' to make a mighty fine target to some cowhand with a bellyful of whiskey.
The Virginian: I wouldn't do it, Trampas.
Trampas: Well, I wasn't thinking of me.
The Virginian: I was.

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[A man and his wife enter the Judge's house without knocking, and the Judge gets upset with them.]
Arthur Lilley: This is not a public house?
Judge Garth: This is not. It is, or was until you came in, a very private one.
Arthur Lilley: Sarah, I feel we are the victims of a practical joke.
Judge Garth: Just, just a minute. Who sent you?
Sarah Lilley: One of the hooligans in town.
Arthur Lilley: A deputy sheriff, judging from his badge. I believe he was called Trampas?
Judge Garth: Oh.

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[The Virginian is telling Molly Wood to leave Trampas and Steve alone about joining the rough riders.]
The Virginian: Molly, don't try it with me!
Molly: But you'd look awful handsome in uniform!
The Virginian: I'll bet. And don't put any more wild ideas in their heads.
Molly: Is it such a wild idea?
The Virginian: It is. As a matter of fact, in those heads, any idea at all is a complete disaster.

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Kyle Lawson: [To Trampas about the Virginian] He still workin' you to death?
Trampas: Tell him about it.
Virginian: The only way he'll ever die from overwork is running away from it.
Trampas: That an absolute true statement.

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[Trampas tries to find homes for a group of orphans.]
Trampas: I brought 'em back.
Steve: Shultz wouldn't take 'em?
Trampas: He'd take 'em but I wouldn't leave 'em. He went over them like he was buying horses. He even looked at their teeth. All he asked was how much work they could do.
Steve: All kids got chores, you know.
Trampas: Well, he had more than chores in mind. All he wanted was a lot of hard labor for no pay. It made me feel like that fella in Oliver Twist, that Fagin.
Steve: You know what I think? I think you got soft headed. Couldn't let 'em go. That's what I think.

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[Steve meets a man on the road while he is looking for the Virginian, after they are separated.]
Steve: Hey mister, I could use some help.
Man: Whoa. Now how did a young fellow like you get lost? Well, the nearest town is only about --
Steve: No, I'm not looking for a town. What I wanted to ask -
Man: Don't tell me you're looking for work! Ah, you shouldn't have any trouble finding a job this time of year!
Steve: No I'm not looking for work, I'm trying to track down a man.
Man: Somebody robbed you, huh? Probably a railroad tramp. It happens all the time around here.
Steve: It's a friend of mine!
Man: A friend robbed you? Well no wonder you're looking for him! I'll tell you - any man that takes advantage of a friend --
Steve: He didn't rob me. We got separated. Now a farmer sold him a horse a few miles back with out a saddle, and I'm trying to find him.
Man: Who, the farmer?
Steve: My friend. You didn't happen to see him, did you?
Man: How do you expect me to know who your friends are?
Steve: He was riding a horse without a saddle on it. Now, did you happen to see anybody riding a horse without a saddle?
Man: Oh. Haha! No, I haven't seen anybody like that, boy. Well, good luck!!
Steve: I'll need it.

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[A girl makes her horse rear in an unsuccessful attempt to appear helpless to the Virginian. While she rides the horse, he calmly re-ties his rope, and waits for her to come back.]
Virginian: Good runner, isn't he?
Carolyn Witman: Do you realize I could've been killed?
Virginian: Do you realize I'm not quite as big a greenhorn as you thought I was?
Carolyn Witman: I'll try to keep it in mind.
Virginian: Good.

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Duke Logan: I don't know what you're up to, but we don't want your kind in our town.
Trampas: My kind? What's that?
Duke Logan: What you were when you left here. A card cheat, a shiftless, no good to anybody. You and your pa.
Trampas: If my pa and me wanted to cheat, you would have never known about it.

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Trampas: High man?
Steve: High man. Not your deck.
Trampas: Steve, you act as if you can't trust me.
Steve: I don't know where you ever got that idea, Trampas.

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Betsy Garth: Trampas, if you were in trouble with the law would you go to a woman lawyer?
Trampas: Why not, if she were pretty.
Betsy: No, I'm serious.
Trampas: I think women would make good lawyers. They're born devious.
Betsy: Women are devious? Who was it that made a date with two girls for the same dance and then told them he was sick with quinsy and couldn't go?
Trampas: That wasn't being devious. That's what you call self preservation.

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