True Grit quotes
48 total quotes"Rooster" Cogburn
Mattie Ross
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Ned Pepper
Ranger La Boeuf
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Moon: He never played me false until he killed me.
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Tom Chaney: Everything happens to me, and now I'm shot by a child!
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Mexican Bob: My wounds healed by themselves - from the inside!
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Mattie: I'm here to take you back to Fort Smith and hang!
Chaney: And I think I will not go. Now how do you like that?
Mattie: Well, there's a posse of officers up the hill who'll force you to go!
Chaney: How many officers?
Mattie: I'd say right around fifty β and they mean business! So you just walk up that hill right in front of me.
Chaney: I believe I'll oblige those officers to come after me.
Chaney: And I think I will not go. Now how do you like that?
Mattie: Well, there's a posse of officers up the hill who'll force you to go!
Chaney: How many officers?
Mattie: I'd say right around fifty β and they mean business! So you just walk up that hill right in front of me.
Chaney: I believe I'll oblige those officers to come after me.
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I also notice that the men of Texas gouge their mounts with great brutal spurs β and cultivate their hair like lettuce!
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[Rooster brings four dead outlaws to Indian Police outpost.]
Rooster: Boots, I got Hayes and some youngster outside, along with Moon and Quincy. I want you to bury 'em.
Boots: They're dead?
Rooster: Well, I wouldn't want you to bury 'em if they wasn't!
Rooster: Boots, I got Hayes and some youngster outside, along with Moon and Quincy. I want you to bury 'em.
Boots: They're dead?
Rooster: Well, I wouldn't want you to bury 'em if they wasn't!
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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!
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[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 β 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?
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 β 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?
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Tom Chaney: A gun will say a whole lot quick!
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If I smelled as bad as you I wouldn't live near people.
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I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!
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Colonel Stonehill: Most people around here know of Rooster Cogburn and some people live to regret it. I would not be surprised to learn that he is a relative of yours.
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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.
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I ain't dead yet, you bushwhacker!
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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.