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Gus/Lonesome Dove Sayings
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"Cheerful in all weathers… Never shirked a task… Splendid behavior." Woodrow
"I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it." Woodrow
"I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it." Woodrow
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We don’t rent pigs.
I was always a fan of Wilbarger from the book.
“I’m the boss, that’s why I’ve got time to read,” the reading man said. “My name’s Wilbarger.” He wore iron-rimmed spectacles.
“I like to snatch a minute for Mr. Milton, and the morning’s my only hope,” Wilbarger added. “At night I’m apt to be in a stampede, and you can’t read Mr. Milton during a stampede—not and take his sense. My days are mostly taken up with lunkheads and weather and sick horses, but I sometimes get a moment of peace after breakfast.”
“I’m the boss, that’s why I’ve got time to read,” the reading man said. “My name’s Wilbarger.” He wore iron-rimmed spectacles.
“I like to snatch a minute for Mr. Milton, and the morning’s my only hope,” Wilbarger added. “At night I’m apt to be in a stampede, and you can’t read Mr. Milton during a stampede—not and take his sense. My days are mostly taken up with lunkheads and weather and sick horses, but I sometimes get a moment of peace after breakfast.”
From the Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit quote on the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign scene:
Call: For all you know it invites people to rob us.
Gus: Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life.
I did look up what it means. A grape changes color when it sees another grape.
Call: For all you know it invites people to rob us.
Gus: Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life.
I did look up what it means. A grape changes color when it sees another grape.
The best gun advice EVER given!
“When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt.
“Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it,” he added, a little solemnly.”
“When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt.
“Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it,” he added, a little solemnly.”
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No 12. Woodrow has just buried Gus and puts up the grave marker made of the famous Hat Creek Cattle Company sign. Woodrow says: “I guess this’ll teach me to be careful about what I promise in the future.”
No 11. When the boys seem a little shocked by Gus’, shall we say, manly appetites, he says: “What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.”
No 10. Right after Gus has cut the cards with Lorie and she accuses him of cheating. He says, “I won’t say I did and I won’t say I didn’t, but I will say that a man who wouldn’t cheat for a poke don’t want one bad enough.”
No 9. Not long before Gus goes guns blazing into Blue Duck’s camp to save Lorie, he says, “They don’t know it, but the wrath of the Lord is about to descend on ‘em.”
No 8. Gus finds July Johnson burying his son, and Jenny and Rosco. July is naturally distraught, blaming himself, saying he should have stayed with them. Gus says: “Yesterday’s gone, we can’t get it back.” But he does assure him that if he ever runs into Blue Duck again, he will kill him for him.
No 7. Gus gets exasperated with Woodrow because Woodrow, to Gus’s way of thinking, is being dense. Gus says: “Woodrow, you just don’t ever get the point – ‘It’s not dyin’ I’m talkin’ about, it’s livin’.”
No 6. This quote punctuates the scene when Jake Spoon must be hanged along with the murdering horse thieves he has thrown in with. Jake pleads his case but Gus has little sympathy. He says, “You know how it works, Jake. You ride with the outlaw, you die with the outlaw. Sorry, you crossed the line.”
No 5. The San Antonio bar scene has several great lines together, so I decided to count them as one quote.
The bartender, upon insulting Gus and Call, gets his nose broken when Gus slams his face into the oak bar. Gus explains: “Besides a whiskey, I think we will require a little respect. . . . If you care to turn around, you will see what we looked like when we was younger and the people around her wanted to make us senators. What we didn’t put up with back then was doddlin’ service, and as you can see, we still don’t put up with it.”
As they rode away, Woodrow tells Gus he’s lucky he didn’t get thrown in jail and Gus says, “Ain’t much of a crime, whackin’ a surly bartender.”
No 4. A touching line, uttered by Gus as he lay dying. He says to Woodrow: “It’s been quite a party ain’t it?”
No 3. This one is a tie – so close I couldn’t separate them.
The first comes at the first of the movie, back at Lonesome Dove when Bol infers that Gus may be too old for romance anymore and Gus sets him straight. He says, “The older the violin, the sweeter the music.”
Following soon after that scene comes Call’s advice to Newt. Call hands him his first pistol and says,”Better to have that and not need it than need it and not have it.”
No 2. Gus lays out a prescription for Lorie’s future happiness. She is obsessed with going to San Francisco, and he wants her to understand that that dream is likely a misguided one.
“You see, life in San Francisco is still just life. If you want any one thing too badly, it’s likely to turn out to be a disappointment. The only healthy way to live life is to learn to like all the little everyday things – like a sip of good whiskey in the evening, a soft bed, a glass of buttermilk, or a feisty gentleman like myself.”
No 1. I began with Call and we end with him. Though Gus gets a great number of the best lines, Woodrow gets, without question, the most powerful, most quoted line of all.
After Call beat an army scout to a pulp, the horrified townspeople – who have never witnessed such violence before – are standing around in shock and seem to require an explanation. Call obliges them. He says, “I hate rude behavior in a man. I won’t tolerate it.”
This is CAJUN speaking. My favorite is #2
No 11. When the boys seem a little shocked by Gus’, shall we say, manly appetites, he says: “What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.”
No 10. Right after Gus has cut the cards with Lorie and she accuses him of cheating. He says, “I won’t say I did and I won’t say I didn’t, but I will say that a man who wouldn’t cheat for a poke don’t want one bad enough.”
No 9. Not long before Gus goes guns blazing into Blue Duck’s camp to save Lorie, he says, “They don’t know it, but the wrath of the Lord is about to descend on ‘em.”
No 8. Gus finds July Johnson burying his son, and Jenny and Rosco. July is naturally distraught, blaming himself, saying he should have stayed with them. Gus says: “Yesterday’s gone, we can’t get it back.” But he does assure him that if he ever runs into Blue Duck again, he will kill him for him.
No 7. Gus gets exasperated with Woodrow because Woodrow, to Gus’s way of thinking, is being dense. Gus says: “Woodrow, you just don’t ever get the point – ‘It’s not dyin’ I’m talkin’ about, it’s livin’.”
No 6. This quote punctuates the scene when Jake Spoon must be hanged along with the murdering horse thieves he has thrown in with. Jake pleads his case but Gus has little sympathy. He says, “You know how it works, Jake. You ride with the outlaw, you die with the outlaw. Sorry, you crossed the line.”
No 5. The San Antonio bar scene has several great lines together, so I decided to count them as one quote.
The bartender, upon insulting Gus and Call, gets his nose broken when Gus slams his face into the oak bar. Gus explains: “Besides a whiskey, I think we will require a little respect. . . . If you care to turn around, you will see what we looked like when we was younger and the people around her wanted to make us senators. What we didn’t put up with back then was doddlin’ service, and as you can see, we still don’t put up with it.”
As they rode away, Woodrow tells Gus he’s lucky he didn’t get thrown in jail and Gus says, “Ain’t much of a crime, whackin’ a surly bartender.”
No 4. A touching line, uttered by Gus as he lay dying. He says to Woodrow: “It’s been quite a party ain’t it?”
No 3. This one is a tie – so close I couldn’t separate them.
The first comes at the first of the movie, back at Lonesome Dove when Bol infers that Gus may be too old for romance anymore and Gus sets him straight. He says, “The older the violin, the sweeter the music.”
Following soon after that scene comes Call’s advice to Newt. Call hands him his first pistol and says,”Better to have that and not need it than need it and not have it.”
No 2. Gus lays out a prescription for Lorie’s future happiness. She is obsessed with going to San Francisco, and he wants her to understand that that dream is likely a misguided one.
“You see, life in San Francisco is still just life. If you want any one thing too badly, it’s likely to turn out to be a disappointment. The only healthy way to live life is to learn to like all the little everyday things – like a sip of good whiskey in the evening, a soft bed, a glass of buttermilk, or a feisty gentleman like myself.”
No 1. I began with Call and we end with him. Though Gus gets a great number of the best lines, Woodrow gets, without question, the most powerful, most quoted line of all.
After Call beat an army scout to a pulp, the horrified townspeople – who have never witnessed such violence before – are standing around in shock and seem to require an explanation. Call obliges them. He says, “I hate rude behavior in a man. I won’t tolerate it.”
This is CAJUN speaking. My favorite is #2
nachogrande
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LONESOME DOVE
Cut the deck for a poke? Woodrow's down by the river cleaning his gun.
Cut the deck for a poke? Woodrow's down by the river cleaning his gun.
S&WIowegan
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I am a certified Lonesome Dove freak. Of all the fabulous lines, Woodrow's comment on rude behavior is my favorite. PERFECT!!
29aholic
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"Well Ma'm I am half honest"
keith44spl
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Gary,
Ya missed one......."Wooo...This water so cold, I believe it shrivel'd my pod!"
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My personal favorite.....The scene where they're gonna hang that bunch of horse thieves.
Gus tell Dan Suggs..........
"I'll say this, Suggs; you're the kind of man it's a pleasure to hang.
If all you can talk is guff, you can talk it to the Devil.
.
Ya missed one......."Wooo...This water so cold, I believe it shrivel'd my pod!"
.
My personal favorite.....The scene where they're gonna hang that bunch of horse thieves.
Gus tell Dan Suggs..........
"I'll say this, Suggs; you're the kind of man it's a pleasure to hang.
If all you can talk is guff, you can talk it to the Devil.
.
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Wyatt Burp
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Great thread. I’d have chimed in earlier but I was wigglin’ my bean.
Just remembered this book I found in a usually expensive used book store for six bucks. Pictured with appropriate sixgun here.
Just remembered this book I found in a usually expensive used book store for six bucks. Pictured with appropriate sixgun here.
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Just before Gus is hit by the Indians.
He and Pea were talking about chasin the buffalo
and Gus explaining why.
Topic turn to a man called Old Man Barlow who had
been hooked by a bull years earlier.
Gus commented that ..."Old man Barlow was a slow thinker..like someone else I could mention."
Unfazed.. Pea replied..."Well, he was a slow walker after that bull hooked em...
He and Pea were talking about chasin the buffalo
and Gus explaining why.
Topic turn to a man called Old Man Barlow who had
been hooked by a bull years earlier.
Gus commented that ..."Old man Barlow was a slow thinker..like someone else I could mention."
Unfazed.. Pea replied..."Well, he was a slow walker after that bull hooked em...
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Lonesome Dove is also an outstanding novel by Larry McMurtry. It won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
If you liked the TV miniseries, you’ll like the book.
If you liked the TV miniseries, you’ll like the book.
Origins of Janie the Rock chucker.
“I gave twenty-eight skunk hides for her,” the old man said suddenly. “You got any whiskey?”
“I gave twenty-eight skunk hides for her,” the old man said suddenly. “You got any whiskey?”
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"You ever et a frog"?
