Dodge City (1939)

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams: Tex Baird

Quotes 

• [they're looking at the buffalo herd] 

  Rusty Hart : Lucky devils: nothin' to do but eat and sleep.

  Tex Baird : That's right, hard head. The only difference between you and them is a pair of horns.

• Tex Baird : Hey, Wade! You ain't gonna keep me in here, are you?

  Wade Hatton : I'm sorry, Tex, you read that notice the same as anyone else. Three days in there won't do you a bit of harm.

  Tex Baird : Ah, but you can't do this to me after all we have been through together. We fought the war together, built a railroad together. We ate, drank, slept, lived and died together.

  Wade Hatton : And now we're going to be in jail together. You in there and me out here.

• Tex Baird : I decided to go back to Texas.

  Rusty Hart : What for?

  Tex Baird : Oh, I don't know. This place is getting too big and calm and peaceful-like.

• [repeated lines] 

  Tex Baird : Come-a-ki-yi-yippy, Yippy-yippy-yippy-ya, Come-a-ki-yi-yippy-yippy-ya...

• Tex Baird : So that's what a steam engine looks like: a coffeepot on wheels.

• Abbie Irving : Tex! Tex, have you seen my brother?

  Tex Baird : Yes'm. He's over yonder somewheres hotfootin' it around. He swiped one of the boss's horses and I reckon he sure is drunk again.

  Abbie Irving : I consider that a very impertinent remark.

  Tex Baird : Yes'm, I guess maybe I shouldn't have said he's drunk - even if he is drunk.

• Tex Baird : I'd feel undressed without my gun.

  Wade Hatton : Where you're going, you won't need any clothes for a few days.

• Tex Baird : I just don't fit in a sissy town like this.

• Tex Baird : So long, knot head. If I hung around here much longer, I'd be riding a side saddle.

• Tex Baird : This is more like it. The last time I saw a mob like that was back in Texas when they gave Curley Hawks a necktie party.

• Wade Hatton : You can get plenty of men for that job out here, Colonel. I'm getting married next week. Got tickets for New York.

  Algernon 'Rusty' Hart : Oh, shucks, you can get married anytime. We'll even go on your honeymoon with you to Virginia City.

  Wade Hatton : Oh, thanks.

  Tex Baird : Gettin' married has ruined a lot of good men.