Tombstone quotes

View Quote Josephine Marcus: [looking lustfully at Wyatt] This is a remarkabale scene...I wonder who that tall drink of water is.
Mr. Fabian: My darling, you've cast your gaze upon the quintessential frontier type. Note the lean silhouette. Eyes closed by the sun, yet sharp as a hawk. He has the look of both predator, and prey.
Josephine Marcus: I want one.
Mr. Fabian: Happy hunting.

View Quote [Wyatt has patiently watched a blustery faro dealer belittle a group of players for several seconds. The dealer finally notices Wyatt's presence and looks up at him.]
Johnny Tyler: Somethin' on your mind?
Wyatt: Yeah, I'd just like to let you know that you're sitting at my seat.
Johnny Tyler: Is that a fact? You run your mouth awful reckless for a man that don't go heeled.
Wyatt: Oh, no need to go heeled to get the bulge on a tub like you.
Johnny Tyler: Is that a fact?
Wyatt: Hmm...that's a fact.
Johnny Tyler: [stands up] Well, gee, mister, I'm real scared.
Wyatt: Damn right you're scared, I can see that in your eyes.
[Tyler reaches for his pistol]
Wyatt: Go ahead, skin it! Skin that smokewagon and see what happens. [backhands Tyler]
Johnny Tyler: [tearing up] Look mister, I'm gettin' tired of your...
Wyatt: [backhands Tyler again] I'm gettin' about sick of your gas, now jerk that pistol and go to work! [backhands Tyler, who's mouth has started to bleed, yet again] I said throw down, boy. You gonna do something, or just stand there and bleed?

View Quote [Doc Holliday has beaten Ike Clanton at a game of poker once again.]
Ike Clanton: What is that now? Twelve hands in a row? Holliday, son of a bitch, nobody's that lucky.
Doc: Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Maybe poker's just not your game. I know, let's have a spelling contest!

View Quote [Frank Stillwell, and Ike Clanton follow Wyatt and Virgil Earp to a train station in Tucson with plans to ambush them and their wives. Wyatt and his men were prepared, and Wyatt has just shot and killed Stillwell.]
Wyatt: All right, Clanton... you called down the thunder, well now you've got it! You see that? [Opens his overcoat, revealing a badge.] That says "United States Marshal".
Ike: [fearfully pleading for his life] Wyatt, please...I...
Wyatt: Take a good look at him, Ike.... 'cause that's how you're gonna end up! The Cowboys are finished, you understand me? From now on, I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it! So run, you cur... run! Tell all the other curs the law's comin'! You tell them I'm comin, and hell's comin' with me, you hear that? Hell's comin' with me!

View Quote [Billy Clanton is antagonizing Doc Holliday, who is playing Chopin on a harpsichord]'
Billy Clanton: You know any Stephen Foster?
Doc Holliday: [annoyed] Pardon?
Billy: Stephen Foster. Oh, Susannah, Camptown Races. Stephen stinkin' Foster!
Doc: Well, this happens to be a nocturne.
Billy: [confused] A which?
Doc: A nocturne! You know, Frederic ****ing Chopin?

View Quote [Johnny Ringo is awaiting Wyatt Earp's arrival in anticipation of a pistol duel.]
Johnny: Well... I didn't think you had it in you.
Doc: [lifting head to reveal his face] I'm your huckleberry..
[Ringo stops short, looking startled.]
Doc: Why, Johnny Ringo. You look like somebody just...walked over your grave.
Johnny: Fight's not with you, Holliday....
Doc: Oh, I beg to differ, sir. You and I started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood, remember?
Johnny: I was just fooling about.
Doc: [smirks] I wasn't. And this time...[opens overcoat to reveal badge] It's legal.

View Quote You've called down the thunder, well now you've got it

View Quote You're no daisy. You're no daisy at all!

View Quote Poor soul, you were just too high strung.

View Quote That's what I love about Wyatt. He can talk himself into anything.

View Quote My sweet, soft Hungarian devil.

View Quote I won't fight you, Ringo. There's no money in it.

View Quote In all that time workin' those cow towns, I was only ever mixed up in one shooting, just one. But a man lost his life and I took it! You don't know how that feels, and believe me boy, you don't ever want to know. Not ever!

View Quote Boy, I tell ya I'm suffering... from a hangover!

View Quote Remember what I said about people seein' a bright light before they die? It ain't true. I can't see a damn thing.