Top 20 Quotes From Pike

[the Bunch has just escaped from bounty hunters by blowing up a bridge]
Dutch: At least we won't have to worry about Deke Thornton.
Pike: [laughs] Hell, no; not after ridin' a half a case of dynamite into the river!
Sykes: [calmly] Well, don't expect him to stay there! He'll be along... and you know it!

Pike: Let's go!
Lyle: Why not?

Pike: [after getting shot in the back by a whore] Bitch!
[Shoots whore]

Sykes: Say, back there in Starbuck. How'd my boy do?
Pike: Your boy? Crazy Lee?
Sykes: Yeah, C.L., Clarence Lee, my daughter's boy. Not too bright, but a good boy.
Pike: [thinks back on Crazy Lee agreeing to remain behind while the rest escaped] Why didn't you tell me he was your grandson?
Sykes: Well, you had enough things on your mind; besides he had to pull his own weight just like the rest of us. I just wanted to make sure he didn't let you down: run when things got hot. Huh? Huh?
Pike: No, he did fine... just fine.

[referring to the bank customers]
Crazy: I kill 'em now?
Pike: No. Hold them here until the shooting starts.
Crazy: I'll hold 'em here 'til Hell freezes over or you say different.

Pike: [Holding a lit cigar to the fuses] You know what this is?
Herrera: Cuidado!
Pike: Any trouble, no guns for the General.
Herrera: Ha, ha-ha-ha-ha. Very smart. That's very smart for you damn gringos. So nobody can rob the guns.
Pike: Nobody.
Herrera: I am not afraid. They are not afraid. You blow up the wagon, you die. Or we kill you pretty soon. But we are amigos.

[repeated line]
Pike: C'mon, you lazy bastard.

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.

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: [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!

Pike: Now, with your permission, I need a bath.
Ernst: With my permission, I think you all need a bath.
Lyle: I don't need no bath! What we need is a couple of them women you're hogging. You think you can fix that up for us, boy?

Pike: [talking about the railroad] There was a man named Harrigan. Used to have a way of doin' things. I made him change his ways. A hell of a lot of people, Dutch, just can't stand to be wrong.
Dutch: Pride.
Pike: And they can't forget it... that pride... being wrong. Or learn by it
Dutch: How 'bout us, Pike? You reckon we learned - bein' wrong, today?
Pike: I sure hope to God we did.

Pike: If they move, kill 'em!

Pike: I'd like to make one good score and back off...
Dutch: Back off to what?

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.

Dutch: They'll be waitin' for us.
Pike: I wouldn't have it any other way.

Pike: What would you do in his place? He gave his word.
Dutch: He gave his word to a railroad.
Pike: It's his word.
Dutch: That ain't what counts! It's who you give it *to*!

Pike: With the way the Generalissimo's cleaned out this part of the country, he ought to have a lot
[of silver]
Pike: to spare.
Dutch: Eh, "Generalissimo", hell! He's just another bandit grabbin' all he can for himself.
Pike: [amused] Like some others I could mention?
[laughs]
Dutch: [serious] Not so's you'd know it, Mr. Bishop. We ain't nothin' like him! We don't HANG nobody! I hope, someday, these people here kick him, and the rest of that scum like him, right into their graves.
Angel: We will. If it takes forever.

Pike: You know what we are then?
Don: Si, the both of you!
Pike: [laughing] And you!

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.