“Stagecoach” quotes

“- The Ringo Kid: Look, Miss Dallas. You got no folks... neither have I. And, well, maybe I'm takin' a lot for granted, but... I watched you with that baby - that other woman's baby. You looked... well, well I still got a ranch across the border. There's a nice place - a real nice place... trees... grass... water. There's a cabin half built. A...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Wayne - The Ringo Kid
Claire Trevor - Dallas

“- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Do you wanna go back or not?
- Dr. Josiah Boone: No! I want another drink.”

George Bancroft - Marshal Curly Wilcox
Thomas Mitchell - Dr. Josiah Boone

“I've always courted danger. During the late war - when I had the honor to serve the Union under our great president, Abraham Lincoln... and General Phil Sheridan - well, sir, I fought mid shot and shell and cannon roar...”
Thomas Mitchell - Dr. Josiah Boone

“I have a slogan that should be blazoned on every newspaper in this country: America for the Americans! The government must not interfere with business! Reduce taxes! Our national debt is something shocking. Over one billion dollars a year! What this country needs is a businessman for president!”
Berton Churchill - Henry Gatewood

“- Buck: If I was you, I'd let them shoot it out.
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Let who?
- Buck: Luke Plummer and the Kid. There would be a lot more peace in this territory if that Luke Plummer had so many holes in him he couldn't hold his liquor.”
Andy Devine - Buck
George Bancroft - Marshal Curly Wilcox

“- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Come busting in here - you'd think we were being attacked! You can find another wife.
- Chris: Sure I can find another wife. But she takes my rifle and my horse. Oh, I'll never sell her. I love her so much. I beat her with a whip and she never gets tired.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Your wife?
- Chris: No, my horse. I can find...” (continue)(continue reading)
George Bancroft - Marshal Curly Wilcox
Chris-Pin Martin - Chris
Thomas Mitchell - Dr. Josiah Boone

“Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week.”
John Wayne - The Ringo Kid

“- Marshal Curly Wilcox: How about you, Mr. Hancock?
- Samuel Peacock: Peacock. I'd like to go on, brother. I want to reach the bosom of my dear family in Kansas City, Kansas, as quickly as possible; but, I may never reach that bosom if we go on... so, under the circumstances - you understand, brother - I think it's best we go back with the...” (continue)(continue reading)

George Bancroft - Marshal Curly Wilcox
Donald Meek - Samuel Peacock

“- The Ringo Kid: That was my kid brother that broke his arm. You did a good job, Doc, even if you were drunk.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Thank you, son. Professional compliments are always pleasing.”
John Wayne - The Ringo Kid
Thomas Mitchell - Dr. Josiah Boone

“- Samuel Peacock: Savages!
- Chris: That's my wife, Yakima... my squaw.
- Samuel Peacock: Yes, but she's... she's... savage!
- Chris: Si señor, she's a little bit savage, I think.”
Donald Meek - Samuel Peacock
Chris-Pin Martin - Chris

“Well, you gotta live no matter what happens.”
Claire Trevor - Dallas

“- Cavalry scout: He had a brush with them last night. Says they're being stirred up by Geronimo.
- Capt. Sickel: Geronimo? How do we know he isn't lying?
- Cavalry scout: No, he's a Cheyenne. They hate Apaches worse than we do.”

Yakima Canutt - Cavalry scout
Walter McGrail - Capt. Sickel

“- Hatfield: A gentleman doesn't smoke in the presence of a lady.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Three weeks ago I took a bullet out of a man who was shot by a gentleman. The bullet was in his back!”
John Carradine - Hatfield
Thomas Mitchell - Dr. Josiah Boone

“I'm not only a philosopher, sir, I'm a fatalist. Somewhere, sometime, there may be the right bullet or the wrong bottle waiting for Josiah Boone. Why worry when or where?”

Thomas Mitchell - Dr. Josiah Boone

“- Dr. Josiah Boone: Jerry, I'll admit as one man to another that, economically, I haven't been of much value to you. But do you suppose you could put one on credit?
- Jerry (bartender): If talk was money, Doc, you'd be the best customer I got.”
Thomas Mitchell - Dr. Josiah Boone
Jack Pennick - Jerry (bartender)

“If there's anything I don't like, it's driving a stagecoach through Apache country.”
Andy Devine - Buck

“Now folks, if we push on we can be in Apache Wells by sundown. Soldiers there will give us an escort as far as the ferry. Then it's only a hoot and a holler into Lordsburg. We got four men who can handle firearms - five with you, Ringo. Doc can shoot if sober.”
George Bancroft - Marshal Curly Wilcox

“- Dallas: Haven't I any right to live? What have I done?
- Dr. Josiah Boone: We're the victims of a foul disease called social prejudice, my child.”
Claire Trevor - Dallas
Thomas Mitchell - Dr. Josiah Boone

- Ed (editor): McCoy! Billy, kill that story about the Republican Convention in Chicago and take this down: "The Ringo Kid was killed on Main Street in Lordsburg tonight. And among the additional dead were...". Leave that blank for a spell.
- McCoy (typesetter): I didn't hear any shooting, Ed.
- Ed (editor): You will, Billy, you will.
Robert Homans - Ed (editor)

“- Capt. Sickel: Well? What's wrong?
- Telegraph operator: The line went dead, sir.
- Capt. Sickel: What have you got here?
- Telegraph operator: Only the first word, sir.
- Capt. Sickel: (reading) Geronimo.”

Walter McGrail - Capt. Sickel
Harry Tenbrook - Telegraph operator

“- Henry Gatewood: So you're the notorious Ringo Kid.
- The Ringo Kid: My friends just call me Ringo - nickname I had as a kid. Right name's Henry.”
Berton Churchill - Henry Gatewood
John Wayne - The Ringo Kid

“Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.”
John Wayne - The Ringo Kid

“Is this the face that wrecked 1000 ships and burned the towerless tops of Illium? Farewell, fair Helen.”

Thomas Mitchell - Dr. Josiah Boone