Quotes from John Wayne movies and TV shows - page 3 of 4

John Elder: All we want to do is make you end up rich and respectable. You fight us every step of the way.
Bud Elder: I don't want to be rich and respectable. I want to be just like the rest of you.

Henry, the Ringo Kid: Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

Hatfield: A gentleman doesn't smoke in the presence of a lady.
Dr. Josiah Boone: Three weeks ago I took a bullet out of a man who was shot by a gentleman. The bullet was in his back.
Hatfield: You mean to insinuate.
Ringo Kid: Sit down, mister. Doc don't mean no harm.

Ringo Kid: You may need me and this Winchester, Curly. Saw a ranch house burnin' last night.

Ringo Kid: Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week.

Ringo Kid: My father and brother were shot down by the Plummer boy... Guess you don't know how it feels to loose your own folks that way.
Dallas: I lost mine when I was a kid. It was a massacre on Superstition Mountain.
Ringo Kid: That's tough - especially on a girl.

Henry, the Ringo Kid: Hold it.

Rocklin: Touch that gun, and I'll kill you.

Miss Elizabeth Martin: I saw you hit that poor man.
Rocklin: Yes, ma'am, just as hard as I could.

Sam Turner: All we want to know is what we rode here for.
Lane: What a gun rides anywhere for - money. The more of it the more chances you take.

Mrs. Lowe: All you do is drift.
Lane: It's what I'm good at.

Calhoun: What about the woman?
Lane: What about her?
Calhoun: She part of it?
Lane: She's all of it.
Calhoun: What's that supposed to mean?
Lane: None of your damn business.

Lane: If anyone tries to cross that river before we're out of sight - baptize 'em.

Lane: Gold has a way of bringing out the larceny in all of us, Mrs. Lowe.

Calhoun: Someone said this gold was already dug.
Lane: Keep digging.

Lane: I got a saddle that's older than you are, Mrs. Lowe.

Steve Aloysius Williams: Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

Steve Aloysius Williams: Couldn't he have booked one protestant school along the way... for a breather?

Steve Aloysius Williams: How'd you do last season?
Father Malone: We showed up for every game.
Steve Aloysius Williams: I'd say that was raw courage.

Steve Aloysius Williams: You just gotta quit looking at me like I was George Washington and Babe Ruth and Florence Nightingale all rolled into one.