Movie Quotes Blog

Village Boy 1:
If you get killed, we take the rifle and avenge you.

Village Boy 2:
And we see to it there’s always fresh flowers on your grave.

O’Reilly:
That’s a mighty big comfort.

Village Boy 2:
I told you he’ll appreciate that!

O’Reilly:
Well, now don’t you kids be too disappointed if your plans don’t work out.

Village Boy 1:
We won’t. If you stay alive, we’ll be just as happy.

Village Boy 2:
Maybe even happier.

Village Boy 1:
Maybe.

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Village Boy 2:
We’re ashamed to live here. Our fathers are cowards.

O’Reilly:
Don’t you ever say that again about your fathers, because they are not cowards. You think I am brave because I carry a gun; well, your fathers are much braver because they carry responsibility, for you, your brothers, your sisters, and your mothers. And this responsibility is like a big rock that weighs a ton. It bends and it twists them until finally it buries them under the ground. And there’s nobody says they have to do this. They do it because they love you, and because they want to. I have never had this kind of courage. Running a farm, working like a mule every day with no guarantee anything will ever come of it. This is bravery. That’s why I never even started anything like that… that’s why I never will.

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Chico:
[berating the villagers] Thank you, thank you… you… chickens!

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Henry:
Well I’ll be damned. I never knew you had to be anything but a corpse to get into Boot Hill. How long’s this been going?

Chamlee:
Since the town got civilized.

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[Villagers tell Chris they collected everything of value in their village to hire gunmen]

Chris Adams:
I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

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Hilario:
The feeling I felt in my chest this morning, when I saw Calvera run away from us, that’s a feeling worth dying for. Have you ever felt something like that?

Vin:
Not for a long, long time. I envy you.

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Chris:
He’s a good gun, and we aren’t heading for a church social.

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Calvera:
Last month we were in San Juan. Rich town. Sit down. Rich town, much blessed by God. Big church. Not like here - little church, priest comes twice a year. BIG one. You’d think we’d find gold candlesticks. Poor box filled to overflowing. Do you know what we found? Brass candlesticks. Almost nothing in the poor box.

Sidekick:
But we took it anyway.

Calvera:
I KNOW we took it anyway. I’m trying to show him how little religion some people now have.

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Britt:
Nobody throws me my gun and says run… Nobody

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Old Man:
You worry about yourself. Are you ready for him?

[refers to Calvera]

Old Man:
What if he comes now, huh?

Vin:
Reminds me of that fellow back home that fell off a ten story building.

Chris:
What about him?

Vin:
Well, as he was falling people on each floor kept hearing him say, “So far, so good.” Tch… So far, so good!

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[O’Reilly is teaching the villagers how to shoot]

O’Reilly:
Miguel, didn’t I tell you to squeeze? Hm? Just like when you’re milking a goat, Miguel.

Miguel:
It’s that I get excited!

O’Reilly:
Well don’t get excited! Now this time squeeze. Slowly, but squeeze. All right now, squeeze.

[Miguel shoots]

O’Reilly:
*Squeeze*! I’ll tell you what. Don’t shoot the gun. Take the gun like this, and you use it like a club, all right?

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Calvera:
Now, to business! I could kill you all. You agree?

[Dead silence]

Calvera:
Well, you don’t disagree!

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Lee:
Yes. The final supreme idiocy. Coming here to hide. The deserter hiding out in the middle of a battlefield.

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Vin:
You know - I’ve been in some towns where the girls weren’t all that pretty. In fact I’ve been in some towns where they’re downright ugly. But it’s the first time I’ve been in a town where there are no girls at all, ‘cept little ones. You know if we’re not careful we could have quite a social life here.

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Hilario:
We’ll fight with guns if we have them. If we don’t, with machetes, axes, clubs, anything!

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Vin:
[On Why The Seven Took the Job] A friend of mine in El Paso, once took off all his clothes and jumped into a patch of cactus. You what he said when I asked him why he did it?

Calvera:
What did he say?

Vin:
Seemed like good idea at the time.

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Chico:
Villages like this they make up a song about every big thing that happens. Sing them for years.

Chris Adams:
You think it’s worth it?

Chico:
Don’t you?

Chris Adams:
It’s only a matter of knowing how to shoot a gun. Nothing big about that.

Chico:
Hey. How can you talk like this? Your gun has got you everything you have. Isn’t that true? Hmm? Well, isn’t that true?

Vin:
Yeah, sure. Everything. After awhile you can call bartenders and faro dealers by their first name - maybe two hundred of ‘em! Rented rooms you live in - five hundred! Meals you eat in hash houses - a thousand! Home - none! Wife - none! Kids… none! Prospects - zero. Suppose I left anything out?

Chris Adams:
Yeah. Places you’re tied down to - none. People with a hold on you - none. Men you step aside for - none.

Lee:
Insults swallowed - none. Enemies - none.

Chris Adams:
No enemies?

Lee:
Alive.

Chico:
Well. This is the kind of arithmetic I like.

Chris Adams:
Yeah. So did I at your age.

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Vin:
We deal in lead, my friend.

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Vin:
One of the men has made room for you in his home.

Old Man:
His conversation would bore me to death!

Vin:
Well, maybe somebody else then.

Old Man:
They are all farmers. They talk of nothing but fertilizer and women. I have never shared their interest for fertilizer. And women, well, I became indifferent when I was 83.

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Calvera:
I should have guessed. When my men didn’t come back I should have guessed. How many of you did they hire?

Chris:
Enough!

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[the village Calvera’s raiding has changed]

Calvera:
New wall.

Chris:
There are lots of new walls, all around.

Calvera:
They won’t keep me out!

Chris:
They were built to keep you in.

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Vin:
You know the first time I took a job as a hired gun, fellow told me, “Vin, you can’t afford to care.” There’s your problem.

Chris:
One thing I don’t need is somebody telling me my problem.

Vin:
Like I said before, that’s your problem. You got involved in this village and the people in it.

Chris:
Do you ever get tired of hearing yourself talk?

Vin:
The reason I understand your problem so well is that I walked in the same trap myself. Yeah. First day we got here, I started thinking: Maybe I could put my gun away, settle down, get a little land, raise some cattle. Things that these people know about me be to my credit - wouldn’t work against me. I just didn’t want you to think you were the only sucker in town.

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Harry Luck:
I heard you got a contract open.

Chris:
Well, not for a high-stepper like you.

Harry Luck:
A dollar bill always looks as big to me as a bedspread.

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[Britt has just shot a fleeing bandit off his horse]

Chico:
Ah, that was the greatest shot I’ve ever seen.

Britt:
The worst! I was aiming at the horse.

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Vin:
Twenty dollars? You must be living in style.

Lee:
Yes… I have the most stylish corner of the filthy storeroom out back. That and one plate of beans. Ten dollars a day.

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Calvera:
If God didn’t want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.

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[Calvera has just captured the Seven]

Calvera:
What I don’t understand is why a man like you took the job in the first place, hmm? Why, huh?

Chris:
I wonder myself.

Calvera:
No, come on, come on, tell me why.

Vin:
It’s like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, “Why?”

Calvera:
And?

Vin:
He said, “It seemed to be a good idea at the time.”

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Chamlee:
I don’t like it, no sir. I’ve always treated every man the same: just as another, future customer.

Henry:
Well in that case, get that hearse rolling.

Chamlee:
I can’t, my driver’s quit!

Robert:
He’s prejudiced too, huh?

Chamlee:
Well, when it comes to a chance of getting his head blown off, he’s downright bigoted.

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[Chris and Vin were just shot at, hitting the tip of Chris’ cigar]

Vin:
You elected?

Chris:
Na. I got nominated real good.

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Chris:
[referring to Calvera] If he rides in with no idea of the reception we can prepare for him, I promise you we’ll all teach him something about the price of corn!

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Chico:
They’re afraid. She’s afraid of me, you, him. All of us. Farmers! Their families told them we would rape them.

Chris:
Well we might. But in my opinion you might have given us the benefit of the doubt. But just as you please…

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[Referring to Britt]

Villager:
If he’s the best with the gun and the knife, with whom does he compete?

Chris:
Himself.

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Henry:
This man needs to be buried. And soon. He’s not turning into any nosegay.

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[as Chris, Vin and Chico are about to leave the village]

Old Man:
You could a-stay, you know. They wouldn’t be sorry to have you a-stay.

Vin:
They won’t be sorry to see us go, either.

Old Man:
Yes. The fighting is over. Your work is done. For them, each season has its tasks. If there were a season for gratitude, they’d show it more.

Vin:
We didn’t get any more than we expected, old man.

Old Man:
Only the farmers have won. They remain forever. They are like the land itself. You helped rid them of Calvera, the way a strong wind helps rid them of locusts. You’re like the wind - blowing over the land and… passing on. Vaya con dios.

Chris:
Adios.

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Chris:
Nah leave him alone. It’s a free country.

O’Reilly:
And it’s his.

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Harry Luck:
[Dying words] Well, I’ll be damned.

Chris Adams:
Maybe you won’t be.

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Calvera:
We have a saying here: a thief who steals from a thief is pardoned for one hundred years.

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Hilario:
Even if we had the guns, we know how to plant and grow, we don’t know how to kill.

Old Man:
Then learn, or die!

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Calvera:
[dying - to Chris] You came back - for a place like this. Why? A man like you. Why?

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Chris:
Go find the women.

Chico:
Nah, what for? Let Calvera find them, he’ll know what to do with them.

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