Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.