The Best Burke Quotes

Burke: Lovely little orange balls.
Turnbull's: They don't look like much.
Burke: Maybe. But they'll turn the world to dust all the same. Take 'em, boys. But be careful. Wouldn't want to drop them.

Burke: You look like a right freak, you know that? Tell me, what's it like to go through life with a face like that?
Jonah: Let me show you!
[punches him]

Quentin: Magnificent, isn't it?
Burke: It's bigger than a breadbox, that's for sure.
Quentin: Do you know who Eli Whitney was?
Burke: I'm a very undereducated man, Mr. Turnbull. Are we talking about Whitney Sr. or Jr.?
Quentin: [smiles] Senior. After he invented the cotton gin and started the Industrial Revolution, he went to work for the U.S. military, and pioneered the use of interchangeable parts, firearms, and explosive ordnance, and fairly well singlehandedly invented modern warfare. So, as an exercise they asked him to design a "superweapon." A nation-killer. And this is what he envisaged, but they never built it, because once they realized its potential, they could not conceive of willingly turning such devastation on their fellow man. But I can. And one week from today... the United States will know hell.
Burke: Cheers!

Quentin: Explain it to me again, Burke.
Burke: There is no explanation. I gave the bastard two barrels in the chest. By all rights he should be as dead as Billy here.
Quentin: Well, Jonah Hex doesn't know how to die. He'll have to be educated.
Burke: I have no problem educating the man.

Burke: Jonah bloody Hex! I'd know that half-baked piehole anywhere!

Burke: I'm gonna hand Turnbull your balls in a snuffbox!