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Quotes from Dallas (1950)

10 quotes
Raymond Massey
Brant Marlow: How's he gonna pay us the money he owes us if we keep topping off his herd?
Will Marlow: I don't buy mortgages to get paid back. I buy them to foreclose.

Jerome Cowan
Matt Coulter: I wish it was Saturday night so I could take a bath.

Gary Cooper
Judge Harper: Dallas will be run by Federal law, not mob rule. We're not wild westerners. We're facing east and that's our future. We intend to build industries here, and culture. Dallas will raise people, not cows.
Blayde Hollister: If your carpetbag riffraff doesn't choke it to death in her cradle.

Will Wright
Judge Harper: You gave us more than a town hall - you gave us the grit to get our town back!

Gary Cooper
U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: [after seeing the Marlow's office in town] Well, let's apprehend them!
Blayde Hollister: Never launch an attack, Yankee, until yuh know the tactical situation.
U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: You learned that at Vicksburg, Rebel?
Blayde Hollister: Foreigner, I'll make it simple so you can understand.
[Looking toward the saloon]
Blayde Hollister: The best place to reconnoiter is where the barleycorn flows!

Gary Cooper
U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: I should have taken you straight to a doctor.
Blayde Hollister: That's how you lost Bull Run, Yankee. Letting the enemy know your casualties.

Ruth Roman
Tonia Robles: Do you know what Texas means? It's an Indian word for friends. It's a big land with room for everyone. And you could be a part of it in time.

Gary Cooper
Blayde Hollister: [after hearing Weatherby's in love with Tonia] You ain't all Boston!
U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: What do you mean by that?
Blayde Hollister: Codfish ain't known for warm blood!

Antonio Moreno
Don Felipe Robles: [to Will Marlow] Brave, strong - like lizards in dark corners, but your day of looting is almost done!

Barbara Payton
Flo: You'd get your pockets picked in a graveyard!