Rufus Ryker: I'll kill him if I have to. Jack Wilson: You mean I'll kill him if you have to. - Jack Palance (as Jack Wilson) in Shane (1953)

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Joey: Shane! Come back! - Brandon De Wilde (as Joey Starrett) in Shane (1953)

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Shane: [to Joey] You go home to your mother and your father and grow up to be strong and straight. - Alan Ladd (as Shane) in Shane (1953)

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Shane: A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that. - Alan Ladd (as Shane) in Shane (1953)

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Shane: Do you mind putting down that gun? Then I'll leave. Joe Starrett: What difference does it make, you're leaving anyway? Shane: I'd like it to be my idea. - Alan Ladd (as Shane) in Shane (1953)

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Shane: I've heard about you. Jack Wilson: What have you heard, Shane? Shane: I've heard that you're a low-down Yankee liar. Jack Wilson: Prove it. - Jack Palance (as Jack Wilson) in Shane (1953)

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Shane: There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley. - Alan Ladd (as Shane) in Shane (1953)

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Shane: You speaking to me? Chris Calloway: I don't see nobody else standing there. - Ben Johnson (as Chris Calloway) in Shane (1953)

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Shane: You were watchin' me down it for quite a spell, weren't you? Joey: Yes I was. Shane: You know, I... I like a man who watches things go on around. It means he'll make his mark someday. - Alan Ladd (as Shane) in Shane (1953)

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Joe Starrett: What Ryker has comin' isn't fit for a woman to see. - Van Heflin (as Joe Starrett) in Shane (1953)

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