Favorite line in the movie..

No tellin' how many times I've watched it, I still start gettin' choked up when Deets last waves to Newt . . . knowing what's comin' I cry everytime I watch the ensuing scenes ...


Gus (speaking to Newt after Deets was buried):


" . . . I seen your father bury many-a man, but I've never know him to carve a sign. Let's go see what he wrote . . ."

Pea: "What's it read, Gus?"

Gus (reading):

Josh Deets
Served with me 30 years.
Fought with me in 21 engagements with the Comanche and Kiowa . . .
(Gus chokes, winces, & continues)
Cheerful in all weathers.
Never shirked a task.

Splendid behavior.


(looks at Pea)
that's what it says ..."




Pea: "My Lord. Ol' Deets is gone . . .
my Lord . . ."

I believe all of these lines are from Gus MacRae:

"Sometimes you turn away from someone, and then one day you look back, and all of your life has gone by ... "

"It took me an awful long time and very many wasted years to realise that yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back."

"What's good for me is not necessarily good for the weak-minded."

"You ain't gonna take my leg!"

Every single one of those lines mean so much to me that I could almost have written/said them myself: they ring true in my own long life, and now including the refusal to lose a leg! Or a foot as they were discussing with me last week. (I wish I had Gus's gun laying by my side when I try to persuade the doctors that I do not agree with their diagnosis!)
;-/

“You see, life in San Francisco is still just life. If you want only one thing too much, it’s likely to turn out a disappointment. Now the only healthy way to live as I see it is to learn to like all the little everyday things" –

"Yeah, like what"

"Like a sip of good whiskey of an evening, or a soft bed, or a glass of buttermilk, or say a feisty gentleman like myself.”


Always loved that exchange between Gus and Lorie. And the whole scene encapsulating those words is just so well acted by Robert Duvall and Diane Lane.

Hes looking for a tree to hang you from, son.

"We can always use a man who wears a chamber pot in his head." Gus to Lippy

Gus and Woodrow interviewing Po Campo for the cooking job. He asks if Po Campo will run off like the last cook because he missed his wife.

Po Campo: "She is in hell, where I sent her. She made good biscuits, but her behavior was terrible."

Gus (to Woodrow): "I think we just found our man.

"Man have tears in them, same as you." Clara Allen to her daughters when they ask why July Johnson is crying after he finds out that Elmira has abandoned their baby with Clara and run from him again.