The Best Ben Johnson Quotes

Mr. Mason: [the Wolverines arrive at the Mason house, where they will be joined by Toni and Erica] We got us some outlaws here.
Jed: Wow, a house.
Mr. Mason: Go on and find a chair.
Robert: Last time we were in a house was five weeks.
Mr. Mason: You look it.

Pike: [sarcastically] You boys want to move on or stay here and give him a - decent burial?
Tector: He was a good man, and I think we oughta bury him.
Pike: He's dead! And he's got a lot of good men back there to keep him company!
Lyle: Too damn many!
Dutch: I think the boys are right. I'd like to say a few words for the dear, dead departed.
[removes his hat]
Dutch: And maybe a few hymns'd be in order. Followed by a church supper. With a choir!
Lyle: You crazy bastards! Both of you!

Tector: Silver rings.
Dutch: [upset] "Silver rings", your butt! Them's washers! Damn!
Lyle: Washers. Washers. We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!
Pike: They set it up.
Lyle: "They"? Who in the hell is "they?"
Sykes: [laughs hysterically] "They"? Why, they is the plain and fancy they, that's who "they" is! Caught you, didn't they? Tied a tin can to your tail. Led you in and waltzed you out again. Oh my, what a bunch! Big tough ones, hunh? Here you are with a handful of holes, a thumb up your ass, and a big grin to pass the time of day with. They? Who the hell is "they?"
Pike: Railroad men... bounty hunters... Deke Thornton.

Pike: [the Gorches are protesting the dividing up of the loot] Sharin' up will be the same as always.
Lyle: Well, me and Tector don't think that he
[points at Angel]
Lyle: oughtta get the same amount. He's just startin' out and this is mine and Tector's openin' for a new territory!
Tector: That's right, and I figure a share to that old goat
[points at Sykes]
Tector: for watchin' them horses is damn sure a share too much!
Lyle: So, we decided; it ain't fair.
Pike: If you two boys don't like equal shares, why in the hell don't you just take *all* of it?
[pauses]
Pike: Well, why don't you *answer* me, you damn yellow-livered trash?
Lyle: [realizing the rest are backing Pike] Now, Pike, you know damn well...
Pike: [angered] I don't know a damn thing, except I either *lead* this bunch, or end it *right now*!

Dutch: What's our next move?
Pike: Well, I figure Agua Verde's the closest... three days maybe. Then get the news and drift back to the border. Maybe a payroll, maybe a bank.
Dutch: Maybe that damn railroad.
Tector: That damn railroad you're talkin' about, sure as hell ain't a-gettin' no easier.
Sykes: And you boys ain't gettin' any younger either!
[laughs]
Pike: We've got to start thinking beyond our guns. Those days are closin' fast.

Angel: [Gazing across the Rio Grande] Mexico lindo.
Lyle: I don't see nothin' so lindo about it.
Tector: Just looks like more Texas, as far as I'm concerned.
Angel: Ah, you have no eyes.

Lyle: All your fancy plannin' and talkin' damn near got us shot to pieces over a few lousy bags of washers. Well, this was goin' to be me and Tector's last job before we quit and headed south. We spent all our time and money a-gettin' ready for this!
Pike: You spent all your time and money runnin' whores in Hondo while I spent my stake settin' it up.
[throws down washer]
Pike: Hell, I should have been runnin' whores instead of stealin' Army horses.
Lyle: While you was doin' all that plannin', me and Tector was gettin' our bell rope pulled by two... two, mind you, Hondo whores!
[starts laughing]
Dutch: [laughing] And Pike was dreamin' of washers... you were matching whores... in tandem!
Lyle: What's that?
Tector: That's one behind t'other.
Lyle: That's right! That's what we was doin'!

Dutch: [impressed] Well, I'd say those fellas know how to handle themselves!
Sykes: They been fightin' Apaches for a thousand years; That's a sure way to learn.
Pike: They ever get armed, with good leaders, this whole country'll go up in smoke!
Sykes: That it will son, that it will.
Lyle: They made damn fools out of us, Mr. Bishop! Gettin' so a feller can't sleep with both eyes closed for fear of gettin' his throat cut. Where in hell were you?
Tector: Now you listen to me, Lyle - You get up off your ass and help once in a while, I wouldn'a got caught near s'easy.

Lyle: [the Bunch is riding into Angel's village] Hey, Angel, why in the hell don't you tell your folks to feed them dogs?
Dutch: Won't find very much around here. That damn Huerta scraped it clean.
Angel: I have invited you to my village, to my home. Any disrespect to my family or to my people, I will kill you.
Pike: Ashamed of having us meet your people?
Angel: Yes. They don't know about my life when I leave the village.
Lyle: You got a sister?
Angel: Yes.
Lyle: I'd be proud to make her acquaintance. - And that of your mama too!
Tector: That goes for your grandma too, Sonny.