Cimarron (1931)

Richard Dix: Yancey Cravat

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Quotes 

• Sabra Cravat : Did you have to kill him?

  Yancy Cravat : No, I could have let him kill me.

• Sabra Cravat : Do you feel nervous about your sermon, dear?

  Yancy Cravat : I'd rather plead to a Texas jury than preach to this gang.

• Yancy Cravat : Louie Heffner, as coroner do your official duty and remove the body.

  Louie Heffner : Okay, Yancy. It was self-defense and justifiable homicide. This town needs a Boot Hill and I'll start it with this burial.

  Yancy Cravat : Fellow citizens! Under the circumstances, we will forego the sermon and conclude this service with a brief word of prayer.

• Yancy Cravat : I'll show them first crack that the Oklahoma Wigwam prints all the news all the time - knowing no law except the law of God and the government of the United States. Say, that's a pretty good slogan! Top of the page - just ahead of the editorial column!

• Yancy Cravat : Sugar, if we all took root and squatted, there would never be any new country.

• Yancy Cravat : [while addressing the jury, referring to the prosecutor in the case against Dixie Lee]  Turn your eye to that figure that has so deservedly held your attention... this gifted person - Mr. Patrick Leary - is the only man in the glorious and brilliant southwest... nay, in this magnificent nation - of whom it may actually be said that he is able to strut sitting down.

  [laughter from the jury and spectators] 

• Yancy Cravat : Wife and mother, stainless woman, hide me... hide me in your love.

• Yancy Cravat : Why, it'll be all over the southwest that Yancy Cravat was hiding behind a woman's petticoat!

  Sabra Cravat : But you didn't! They can't say so! You shot him there nicely in the ear, darling.

  Yancy Cravat : Well, you shouldn't interfere when men are having a little friendly shootin'.

• Yancy Cravat : Why, we've had enough of this Wichita. We're goin' out to a brand new two-fisted, rip snortin' country full of Indians, rattlesnakes, gun toters and desperados. Whoopee!

• Yancy Cravat : There's loyalty, Sabra, that money can't buy.

• Yancy Cravat : The second button on his coat is about the spot of his wishbone. Maybe a couple inches higher.

• Yancy Cravat : Dixie Lees have been stoned in the market place for 2,000 years. You've got to drive the devil out first.

• Yancy Cravat : Fellow citizens:, I have been called upon to conduct this opening meeting of the Osage First Methodist Episcopalian Lutheran Presbyterian Congregational Baptist Catholic Unitarian Hebrew Church.

• Yancy Cravat : Never is a long time.