“Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence.”

My mama always told me never put off till tomorrow people you can kill today.

Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man’s muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

You take on a job, you finish it. Any man who can’t be depended on steady, ain’t worth the trouble of having around.

It said that a lot of people, when they die, they see this light. Like in a tunnel. They say it’s the light leadin’ you to heaven.

There’s no normal life there’s just life. Now get on with it.

The most important lesson I learned was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time.

Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers.

Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and fate is that which we run into.

You’d be doing me a favor if you called me Wyatt or Earp, but not both.”

Mister, I’ve been in a really bad mood for the last few years, so I’d appreciate it if you’d just leave me alone.

You gonna do somethin’? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

That nothing’s so sacred as honor and nothing’s so loyal as love.”

I have nothing left, nothing to give you, I have no pride, no dignity, no money, I don’t even know how we’ll make a living, but I promise I’ll love you the rest of your life.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. In a gun fight. You need to take your time in a hurry.

Look at all the stars. You look up and you think, ‘God made all this and he remembered to make a little speck like me’. It’s kind of flattering, really.

No wise man ever took a handgun to a gunfight.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them. Of course, they have to know you are ignoring them, for otherwise they may not even know you exist.

Wisdom is the most expensive thing in existence.

I trust the universe. If we exist for each other, time will bring is both back to our beginning.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.

We are all marks of condensation on polished glass; steadily fading away.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

Equality is what does not exist among mortals.