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- Rooster Cogburn: I ain't had a drink since breakfast, and the only time I wear this coat's in your courtroom. Was always good enough when you needed what was in it!
- [last lines]
- Eula: Reuben, I have to say it. Livin' with you has been an adventure any woman would relish for the rest o' time. I look at cha, with your burned out face and your big belly and your bear-like paws and your shining eye, and I have to say you're a credit to the whole male sex, and I'm proud to have ya for my friend.
- Rooster Cogburn: I'll be damned if she didn't get the last word in again. Well...
- Rooster Cogburn: Say, uh, there's one thing I would like to get straight.
- Eula: Hmm.
- Rooster Cogburn: We both know that the Lord brands lyin' a sin. You think He'll still smile on you after them whoppers you told in there?
- Eula: And if thy words stray from the truth for the good of God's own, if thy intent be pure, thou shall not then be judged sinful.
- Rooster Cogburn: Beautiful quotation. What book? What chapter?
- Eula: I will confess, Reuben, it is of my own invention, I just made it up.
- Eula: Just to whom do you think you are talking, Mr. Marshall?
- Rooster Cogburn: You is to whom I think I am talking, Ma'am.
- Eula: It's true that you are larger than me... but only physically.
- Rooster Cogburn: In this case, my dear lady, that is enough.
- Eula: Do you mean to tell me that you are prepared to use brute force?
- Rooster Cogburn: That is exactly what I mean.
- Eula: [pause] Oh.
- Rooster Cogburn: Ma'am, I don't know much about thoroughbreds - horses or women! Them that I did know, I never liked. They're too nervous and spooky; they scare me. But you're one high-bred filly that don't. 'Course, I don't know what you're talking about half the time!
- McCoy: Do you know anything about rafts? There's rough water down river.
- Rooster Cogburn: I can ride. Can't be much different.
- McCoy: You ain't no sailor. I can see that. Water is like a woman: sly and fickle. You gotta watch it every minute.
- Rooster Cogburn: You a sailor?
- McCoy: I was once. Shanghai McCoy's my name. Been around the Horn, sailed the seven seas, seen everything, done everything, that's how I know people are rotten. I've seen 'em all.
- Eula: You're wrong, old man. We're made in God's image, and goodness is in us. Even in you.
- McCoy: Amazing! I never took you for a Bible-thumper.
- Rooster Cogburn: Hold it. She is what she is 'cause she wants to be. That's the way you take her. Like me.
- McCoy: You're wastin' your time preachin'. You too, Sister. I'm a ship that can't be salvaged.
- Eula: [Rooster is getting ready to take a swig of whiskey] Reuben, have you ever seen an enlarged picture of a drunkard's liver?
- Rooster Cogburn: Damnation! Even in her sleep.
- [hits head on bottom of wagon]
- Rooster Cogburn: Ow!
- [shouts]
- Rooster Cogburn: Good night, Ms. Goodnight!
- Eula: [whispers] Good night, Reuben.
- Rooster Cogburn: [Eula has gone to a creek to wash up] Watch yourself, sister! Everything in these woods'll either bite ya, stab ya or stick ya!
- Hawk: You ain't got the know how to use it.
- Rooster Cogburn: [Eula fires off a burst with the gatling gun] Ain't that the way it works, Hawk?
- Eula: [referring to her bible quotation] I will confess, Reuben, it is of my own invention. I just made it up!
- Rooster Cogburn: Hallelujah and jubilee, that is one quotation I will remember!
- Eula: And will you remember us, too, Reuben?
- Rooster Cogburn: Longer than I'll remember that quotation, Miss Eula.
- [first lines]
- Rooster Cogburn: It's the law, Pecos! We want you for the robbery of the Katy Flyer, murder of the engineer. Now git your hands on top your heads...
- [gunshots]
- Rooster Cogburn: You bastard! You - bastard!
- Rooster Cogburn: Well, out in the territory, we prize a dead shot more'n we do a lady's charms.
- Eula: Then I've come to the right place, haven't I? You mean the men in the West do not mind if their women outshoot and outsmart them?
- Rooster Cogburn: If they're quiet about it. No, here we value a spirited woman almost as much as we do a spirited horse.
- Rooster Cogburn: You ain't very hospitable.
- McCoy: I ain't got an ounce of goodwill in me, and that's a fact. I hate everybody. I'm a cantankerous old man, and I know it. I like myself better'n anyone I ever met, that's how come I took this job - to be alone with me!
- Eula: [as Rooster first arrives at the mission] You're too late, lawman.
- Rooster Cogburn: Too late to stop 'em, but not too late to hang 'em.
- Eula: There are nine men with him. How can you best them?
- Rooster Cogburn: Well ma'am, I got my Navy Colt sidearm and a Winchester rifle on my saddle and a packet full of cartridges.
- Rooster Cogburn: That shows you know more about the Lord and His Good Book than you know about men!
- Eula: That's my good fortune. I know enough about men to steer clear of them.
- Rooster Cogburn: [to judge] You seem to forget, Judge. You hung up my guns today.
- Rooster Cogburn: [walks away] I am retired, relieved, and rejoicing.
- Eula: [the Gatling gun falls in the river] The gun. The gun, Reuben! We've lost the gun!
- Rooster Cogburn: Well, now, sister, just what the hell can I do about it?
- Rooster Cogburn: [his deputy is shot] You bastard!
- [proceeds to kill all]
- Rooster Cogburn: You bastards!
- Rooster Cogburn: I ain't had a drink since breakfast, and the only time I wear this coat's in your courtroom. Was always good enough when you needed what was in it!
- McCoy: You're shippin' out with a strange crew, captain.
- Rooster Cogburn: I'll match their mettle against most.
- McCoy: I'm glad it's your ship, not mine. Women can no more keep their mouths shut than a yellow-tailed catfish.
- Rooster Cogburn: [pats McCoy's stomach] Got to agree with you there.
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