True Grit quotes

48 total quotes

"Rooster" Cogburn
Mattie Ross
Multiple Characters
Ned Pepper
Ranger La Boeuf

View Quote I'm going! And it's not because you say I can't, and it's not because you say I can. I paid good cash money to be here, and I'm on my own business! Now, we'll have no more talk about it.

View Quote My name is Mattie Ross, of Near Dardanelle in Yell County. My family owns property, and I don't know why I'm being treated like this!

View Quote Rooster Cogburn is no good friend of mine! He led us straight into your hands, and now he has left me with a gang of cut-throats! Is that what they call "grit" in Fort Smith? We call it something else in Yell County.

View Quote Papa's marker is not what was ordered. I will make that wool-headed fool of a stone man change it.

View Quote Mr. Rat, I have a writ here that says you are to stop eating Cheng Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now, It's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same! [to Mattie] See? He doesn't pay any attention to me. [BANG! he shoots the rat] You can't serve papers on a rat, baby sister. You either kill him or let him be.

View Quote General Price don't belong to me. He just rooms with me. Cats don't belong to nobody. 'Course, I depend on him.

View Quote A fella that carries a big-bore Sharps carbine might come in handy… if we get jumped by elephants, or buffalo, or something.

View Quote By God! That girl reminds me o' me!

View Quote LaBoeuf, if you get crosswise of me you'll think a ton of brick had fell on you! You'll wisht you was back at the Alamo with Travis!

View Quote It's a shame, a kid like Moon losing his leg. He's too young to be hoppin' around on a little peg. Loves to dance too much — and sports!

View Quote DAMN a man that whistles!

View Quote Ned doesn't go around killing people for no reason. Had he a reason, he'd kill them.

View Quote We've got to get you to a doctor or you'll be deader than he is!

View Quote The French is 'La Bourf'. I say 'La Beef'.

View Quote I only take one step at a time. That's why I was given two feet.