Quotes from The Kentuckian (1955)
15 quotes
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Pleasant Tuesday Babson:
You don't measure land in Texas by rod and chain - you measure by the eye. And when the eye can see no further, that's where you drive your stake. The rifle ball has not been made that can carry to a neighbor's line.
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John Litel
(as Pleasant Tuesday Babson)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
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Susie:
Sometimes you can ruin what you love.
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Diana Lynn
(as Susie)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
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Drunk frontiersman with whip:
Who dares? Who dares to crack a whip with me? My mammy was a gator and my pappy was a bull! I can whup my weight in wildcats and drink my belly full. Who dares?
[Stan whips the jug out of drunk whipcracker's hand] Drunk frontiersman with whip: Not you, Stan. You cut too fine a seam for me.
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Glenn Strange
(as Drunk Frontiersman with Whip)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
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Zack Wakefield:
I know what's best for him. I'll make a businessman out of him. You leave it to me. I'll work the buckskin out of him and off of him both. He's my little brother.
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John McIntire
(as Zack Wakefield)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
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Zack Wakefield:
Just keep your powder dry. Our time to shoot will come.
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John McIntire
(as Zack Wakefield)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
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Zack Wakefield:
Look, we're much obliged - more than I can say.
Hannah: Eli, you're playin' the fool. Zack Wakefield: Maybe my own kind of fool then. [to Little Eli] Zack Wakefield: Let's go, boy.
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John McIntire
(as Zack Wakefield)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
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Elias Wakefield:
[referring to Fletcher] He's a windbag but high educated and mighty high.
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Burt Lancaster
(as Elias Wakefield)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
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Walter Matthau
(as Stan Bodine)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
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Elias Wakefield:
I overdone my fun and so poked my paw in the bear trap.
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Burt Lancaster
(as Elias Wakefield)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
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Elias Wakefield:
It ain't we don't like people - we like room more. Room to stretch in, room to see and hunt... and where you set your foot no foot's been set before. That's what ails Kentucky now; a man can't hardly move without he nudges up agin' a neighbor.
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Burt Lancaster
(as Elias Wakefield)
in
The Kentuckian
(1955)
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