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Quotes from Canyon Passage (1946)

12 quotes
Brian Donlevy
Hi Linnet: Uh, are you feeling lucky tonight?
George Camrose: I always *feel* lucky. That's my trouble.
- Brian Donlevy (as George Camrose) in Canyon Passage (1946)

Dana Andrews
Logan Stuart: A man can choose his own gods, Cornelius. What are your gods?
- Dana Andrews (as Logan Stuart) in Canyon Passage (1946)

Brian Donlevy
Logan Stuart: George, when is this girl going to marry you?
George Camrose: I doubt if she knows hereself, Logan. When are you taking me, Lucy?
Lucy Overmire: George, do you like poetry?
George Camrose: Must I like poetry to be your husband?
Lucy Overmire: We'll be married when the leaves fall.
George Camrose: You see, Logan, she strings me up and lets me swing. You mean the maple leaves that fall early, or the pine needles that never fall at all?
- Brian Donlevy (as George Camrose) in Canyon Passage (1946)

Dana Andrews
Logan Stuart: Gold is only yellow gravel, Cornelius.
Man: [laughs] But the yellow color makes all the difference.
Logan Stuart: Butter's yellow too and you can spread it on bread.
- Dana Andrews (as Logan Stuart) in Canyon Passage (1946)

Dana Andrews
Logan Stuart: It's a thin margin, Johnny, between what could be and is.
- Dana Andrews (as Logan Stuart) in Canyon Passage (1946)

Dana Andrews
Logan Stuart: There was a lot of good in George.
Johnny Steele: He sure panned out no color.
Logan Stuart: There's a thin margin, Johnny, between what could be and what is.
Johnny Steele: Yeah. It was thin for you last night. We were a mind to hang ya.
Logan Stuart: You see how thin the margin is.
- Dana Andrews (as Logan Stuart) in Canyon Passage (1946)

Dana Andrews
Logan Stuart: This is Jacksonville, Clench. U.S.A. We sail with the tide.
Clenchfield: All Americans think that. They think the tide flows forever for them. But mark, me, Logan... gold veins run out, crops fail, men starve, wars come.
Logan Stuart: And businesses fail... until we get a new deck and deal again.
- Dana Andrews (as Logan Stuart) in Canyon Passage (1946)

Dana Andrews
Honey Bragg: What do you have against me?
Logan Stuart: You ought to know.
Honey Bragg: You're talking in riddles, Logan. What's in your mind?
Logan Stuart: A picture of tree - with you swingin' from it.
- Dana Andrews (as Logan Stuart) in Canyon Passage (1946)

Brian Donlevy
George Camrose: We're all careless with gold. It's the cheapest thing in camp.
- Brian Donlevy (as George Camrose) in Canyon Passage (1946)

Onslow Stevens
George Camrose: You have strange friends, Jack.
Jack Lestrade: I didn't say that I like him or that I trust him.
George Camrose: What's your idea of a friend?
Jack Lestrade: Any man, I suppose, who believes as I do that the human race is a horrible mistake.
- Onslow Stevens (as Jack Lestrade) in Canyon Passage (1946)