Quotes from The Kentuckian (1955)

15 quotes
John Litel
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.
- John Litel (as Pleasant Tuesday Babson) in The Kentuckian (1955)

Diana Lynn
Susie: Sometimes you can ruin what you love.
- Diana Lynn (as Susie) in The Kentuckian (1955)

Glenn Strange
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.
- Glenn Strange (as Drunk Frontiersman with Whip) in The Kentuckian (1955)

John McIntire
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.
- John McIntire (as Zack Wakefield) in The Kentuckian (1955)

John McIntire
Zack Wakefield: Just keep your powder dry. Our time to shoot will come.
- John McIntire (as Zack Wakefield) in The Kentuckian (1955)

John McIntire
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.
- John McIntire (as Zack Wakefield) in The Kentuckian (1955)

Burt Lancaster
Elias Wakefield: [referring to Fletcher] He's a windbag but high educated and mighty high.
- Burt Lancaster (as Elias Wakefield) in The Kentuckian (1955)

Walter Matthau
Elias Wakefield: Bodine, for once you've gone too far!
Stan Bodine: I go where I please, Wakefield!
- Walter Matthau (as Stan Bodine) in The Kentuckian (1955)

Burt Lancaster
Elias Wakefield: I overdone my fun and so poked my paw in the bear trap.
- Burt Lancaster (as Elias Wakefield) in The Kentuckian (1955)

Burt Lancaster
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.
- Burt Lancaster (as Elias Wakefield) in The Kentuckian (1955)

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