Quotes
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J.J. Foote : Yea, verily, thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions and a plague broke in upon them - Psalms 106, Verse 29.
Hank Bracket : The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad way and they shall seem like torches and they will run like lightning - Nahum 2, Verse 4.
J.J. Foote : Hey, you know your scriptures!
Johnny Reach : If thou canst not lick 'em, join 'em. Uh, Johnny Reach, 1914.
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Hank Bracket : It would be a Christian kindness in takin' her off the streets and keepin her safe from pryin' eyes and busy fingers, brother. Here's twenty bucks.
J.J. Foote : Seein' you put it that way, I'll look after like she's pure-blooded horse-flesh.
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[a angry mob surrounds the jail demanding the sheriff and his deputies turn over his prisoner over to them]
Miss Baker : They wouldn't let it happen. Sheriff Lynch is a very good man.
Hank Bracket : Kind of an unfortunate name, though, isn't it?
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Hank Bracket : You know, my partner's an old hand at these necktie parties.
Miss Baker : Oh?
Hank Bracket : No, really. The first one I attended, he was the guest of honor. That's where I found him. I just plucked him out of a cottonwood tree... and he wasn't very ripe either.
Johnny Reach : I'd be swingin' there yet if old Hank hadn't happened by... and spoke up from the other end of a double-stacked blowgun.
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Hank Bracket : Hey, Billy! How are you, buddy!
Major Bill Buckner : A long time between wars.
Hank Bracket : Well, it certainly is. The old sawbones let you loose, leg and all, huh?
Major Bill Buckner : I got a new one.
Hank Bracket : Well, sorry about that. Don't leave it layin' around.
Hank Bracket : [to the others] He was always losin' somethin' - except battles.
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Hank Bracket : And in the meantime, all you want Johnny and me to do is pull 73 passengers off a moving train in wide-open country without being seen and if we are seen, they're all killed? Is that the job?
Mr. Davenport : I told you it can't be done.
Hank Bracket : ...I didn't say that.
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Hank Bracket : I'll take this, Mr. Davenport, if you don't mind and fill it in later. Fair?
Mr. Davenport : But what is your plan?
Hank Bracket : Well, we don't like to talk about things like that, because you'll probably think we're crazy and you might be right.
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Hank Bracket : If you're thinkin' he was brought up in a barn, ma'am, it was nothin' that fancy. It was a wickiup.
Miss Baker : You mean an Indian dwelling?
Hank Bracket : He's not even quite civilized yet.
Miss Baker : Well, you don't look like a savage.
Johnny Reach : Oh, I'm tame. Family came out of Kansas. My stepmother raised me - she was pureblooded Chiricahua.
Miss Baker : Oh, you lived with her.
Johnny Reach : Her people, yes ma'am, after Pa passed away. Still can't sit horse with a saddle on it or sleep on a bed. Sorry.
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[last lines]
Hank Bracket : What kept ya?
Johnny Reach : Oh, business. I got your five dollars back from Miss Baker.
Hank Bracket : How'd you do that?
Johnny Reach : Oh, ah, she bet me she chould kiss me without touching.
Hank Bracket : She bet you that?
Johnny Reach : Yeah. Born loser... but an awful good sport!
