Film Quotes by Ward Bond
30 quotes
Lov Bensey:
I want a young wife. I ain't gonna take no 23 year old woman for a wife, have everybody laughin' at me.
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Ward Bond
(as Lov Bensey)
in
Tobacco Road
(1941)
Pat Wheeler:
If I ever saw a man holdin' a bull by the tail, you're it.
Sen. Blakely:
Not all savages paint their faces and wear eagle feathers!
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Ward Bond
in
Dakota Incident
(1956)
Tug:
[to other gang members about Clitterhouse] Hey, that stuffed shirt's got something on the ball!
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Ward Bond
(as Tug)
in
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
(1938)
Joan of Arc:
[Joan pleads that the siege be continued] We need only to go forward, and the fort is ours!
La Hire: If she wants to attack - we attack.
La Hire: If she wants to attack - we attack.
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Ward Bond
(as La Hire)
in
Joan of Arc
(1948)
Joan of Arc:
Don't swear, La Hire. But if you must, swear "by my staff".
La Hire: "By my staff!" What kind of an oath is that?
La Hire: "By my staff!" What kind of an oath is that?
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Ward Bond
(as La Hire)
in
Joan of Arc
(1948)
Sheriff Jeb McKane:
[admiring a panther hide] Where'd you catch him, Ben?
Ben: Back in the swamp.
Marty McCord: How'd you get him?
Ben: We got him with a load of buckshot.
Tim Dorson: Oh, so you was with somebody.
Ben: I mean me and my dog.
Tim Dorson: I knowed you had a smart dog, Ben, but I never heard he could handle a shotgun.
Ben: Back in the swamp.
Marty McCord: How'd you get him?
Ben: We got him with a load of buckshot.
Tim Dorson: Oh, so you was with somebody.
Ben: I mean me and my dog.
Tim Dorson: I knowed you had a smart dog, Ben, but I never heard he could handle a shotgun.
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Ward Bond
(as Tim Dorson)
in
Swamp Water
(1941)
James J. Corbett aka Gentleman Jim:
I've seen you around San Francisco a few times but from a long distance, of course.
John L. Sullivan: Well, seein' me from a long distance is a smart idea, young fella.
John L. Sullivan: Well, seein' me from a long distance is a smart idea, young fella.
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Ward Bond
(as John L. Sullivan)
in
Gentleman Jim
(1942)
James J. Corbett aka Gentleman Jim:
The first time I saw you fight I was just a bit of a kid. There wasn't a man alive who could have stood up to you then. And tonight, well, I was just mighty glad that you weren't the John L. Sullivan of ten years ago.
John L. Sullivan: Is that what you're thinkin' now?
James J. Corbett aka Gentleman Jim: That's what I was thinking before I got into the ring with you.
John L. Sullivan: That's a fine decent thing for you to say, Jim. I don't knopw how we might have come out, oh, say, eight or ten tears ago. I... maybe I was faster then, but if I was, tonight you're the fastest thing on two feet
John L. Sullivan: Is that what you're thinkin' now?
James J. Corbett aka Gentleman Jim: That's what I was thinking before I got into the ring with you.
John L. Sullivan: That's a fine decent thing for you to say, Jim. I don't knopw how we might have come out, oh, say, eight or ten tears ago. I... maybe I was faster then, but if I was, tonight you're the fastest thing on two feet
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Ward Bond
(as John L. Sullivan)
in
Gentleman Jim
(1942)
Mary Kate Danaher:
Father, could I... tell you in the Irish?
Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: [distracted, fishing] Sea, sea.
Mary Kate Danaher: [very hesitantly] Níor lig mé m'fhear chéile isteach i mo leaba liom aréir. Chuir mé fuinneamh air a chodladh i - Ó, i mála codlata! Mála codlata!
Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: Céad é sin? "Bag?"
Mary Kate Danaher: Sleeping bag, Father, with... with buttons! Más breá é, níor rith sé ar a shon. An peaca é?
Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: [exasperated] Woman, Ireland may be a poor country, God help us. But here, a married man sleeps in a bed, not a bag!
Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: [distracted, fishing] Sea, sea.
Mary Kate Danaher: [very hesitantly] Níor lig mé m'fhear chéile isteach i mo leaba liom aréir. Chuir mé fuinneamh air a chodladh i - Ó, i mála codlata! Mála codlata!
Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: Céad é sin? "Bag?"
Mary Kate Danaher: Sleeping bag, Father, with... with buttons! Más breá é, níor rith sé ar a shon. An peaca é?
Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: [exasperated] Woman, Ireland may be a poor country, God help us. But here, a married man sleeps in a bed, not a bag!
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Ward Bond
(as Father Peter Lonergan)
in
The Quiet Man
(1952)