I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?

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

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.

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.

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

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

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.