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

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.

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

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?

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.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

I do honor the very flea of his dog.

I’ve learned there’s nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance – I wore it like a badge of honor.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.