True Grit quotes

View Quote Fill your hand, you son-of-a-bitch!

View Quote Baby sister, I was born game, and I mean to go out that way.

View Quote Young fella, if you're looking for trouble, I'll accommodate you. Otherwise, leave it alone.

View Quote Colonel Stonehill: I just received word that a young girl fell head first down a fifty foot well on the Tolson Road. I thought perhaps it was you.

View Quote [Ned Pepper, Mexican Bob, and the Parmalee brothers meet Rooster Cogburn blocking the road.]
Rooster: Where's the girl, Ned?
Ned: She was in wonderful health when last I saw her. I can't answer for her now.
Rooster: You'll answer for her now! Where is she?
La Boeuf: [from far off, in outlaw camp] Rooster, make a run for it! I've got Mattie! Chaney too!
Ned: Well, Rooster, will you give us the road? I have business elsewhere.
Rooster: Farrell, you and your brother stand clear. I've got no interest in you today. Stand clear and you won't get hurt.
Harold: ****-a-doodle-doo! [other outlaws laugh]
Ned: What's your intention, Rooster? You think one on four is a dog-fall?
Rooster: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned, or see you hanged at Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?
Ned: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!
Rooster: Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!

View Quote Damn that Texican! When you need him, he's dead.

View Quote Moon: He never played me false until he killed me.

View Quote Mexican Bob: My wounds healed by themselves - from the inside!

View Quote [In a scuffle with Chaney, Mattie falls into a rattlesnake pit.]
Mattie: Help me! Please help me! I'm in the pit! There's a snake down here, and skeletons!
Chaney: [leaning head over edge of pit] I warrant there'll be another one before long — a little, spindly one! How do you like it?
Mattie: [sobbing hysterically] Oh, help me, help me… please, HELP ME!
Chaney: You say you don't like it?

View Quote I won't rest until Tom Chaney is barking in Hell.

View Quote If I smelled as bad as you I wouldn't live near people.

View Quote If in four months I could not find Tom Chaney, with a mark on his face like banished Cain, I would not advise others how to do so.

View Quote I also notice that the men of Texas gouge their mounts with great brutal spurs — and cultivate their hair like lettuce!

View Quote I want Tom Chaney hanged for killing my father! It's little to me how many dogs and senators he's killed in Texas.

View Quote Those horses can't outrun Little Blackie! They're loaded down with fat men and iron!