Quotes from The Plainsman (1936)

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Gary Cooper
Wild Bill Hickok: [to young boy at the dock] Well, son...
[Clearing throat]
Wild Bill Hickok: . I can tell you what an Indian will do to you. but... you never know what a woman will do.
- Gary Cooper (as Wild Bill Hickok) in The Plainsman (1936)

Gary Cooper
Wild Bill Hickok: It's easier sliding up Niagara Falls than it is to understand a woman.
- Gary Cooper (as Wild Bill Hickok) in The Plainsman (1936)

Gary Cooper
Wild Bill Hickok: Keep your hands off your guns or there will be more dead men here than this town can afford to bury!
- Gary Cooper (as Wild Bill Hickok) in The Plainsman (1936)

Gary Cooper
Wild Bill Hickok: Son, one of these days, you're going to grow up and you ought to know about women. You see, the thing is this - women are... uh, well, they're uh... Well, son, I can tell you what an Indian will do to ya, but you never know what a woman will do.
- Gary Cooper (as Wild Bill Hickok) in The Plainsman (1936)

Gary Cooper
Wild Bill Hickok: That river clipper is saying good-bye to you, ma'am. Now you're going to have three long days of this prairie clipper.
Louisa Cody: But tomorrow is Sunday. Do we have to ride on Sunday?
Wild Bill Hickok: Well, there's no Sunday west of Junction City, no law west of Hayes City and no God west of Carson City.
- Gary Cooper (as Wild Bill Hickok) in The Plainsman (1936)

Gary Cooper
Wild Bill Hickok: This is a big country and trails cross... sometimes.
- Gary Cooper (as Wild Bill Hickok) in The Plainsman (1936)

Paul Harvey
Wild Bill Hickok: What started you on the warpath, Yellow Hand?
Yellow Hand: Where sun rise, white man's land. Where sun set, Indian land. White man come, take our land, kill buffalo, our food. White man promise us food. White man lie. Now Cheyenne buy white man thunder stick. Soon war drum sound in all Indian land. All tribes ride with Yellow Hand. We drive white man, like buffalo, away back to rising sun. Yellow Hand has spoken.
- Paul Harvey (as Yellow Hand) in The Plainsman (1936)

Gary Cooper
Wild Bill Hickok: Women and me don't agree
- Gary Cooper (as Wild Bill Hickok) in The Plainsman (1936)

Gary Cooper
Tony: Hey, why don't you get a haircut?
Wild Bill Hickok: Short hair makes the Indians mad, and they're mad enough already.
- Gary Cooper (as Wild Bill Hickok) in The Plainsman (1936)

Gary Cooper
John Lattimer: I'm not armed, Mr. Hickok, I'm not armed!
Wild Bill Hickok: I'll give you three minutes to fix that. I'll be waiting outside.
John Lattimer: I'm just leaving town.
Wild Bill Hickok: You're not leaving town unless dead men can walk.
- Gary Cooper (as Wild Bill Hickok) in The Plainsman (1936)

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