20 Best Jonah Hex Quotes

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]

[Jonah rides into town, dragging three dead bodies with his horse]
Jonah: These the boys you wanted?
Stunk: The Clayton boys?
Jonah: That's right.
Stunk: It would appear we have a little problem, Mr. Hex. They's four Clayton boys. This here's only three. I don't see anyway we could pay you the agreed-upon "reconciption"...
[Hex tosses him a burlap sack. The Mayor glances inside, and retches]
Jonah: The rest of him was too fat for my horse.

[a dozen Union soldiers burst into Lilah's room]
Jonah: Christ, woman, how many men you seeing today?

Jonah: This is for my wife!
[kills a laughing Burke... then resurrects him. Burke is now terrified of what he saw]
Jonah: And this is for my son!
[burns him to ashes]

[tied up]
Jonah: You still have that Derringer in your bustle?
Lilah: They took it.
Jonah: You still have that snake in your garter?
Lilah: They took that too.
Jonah: You still have that...?
Lilah: They took it.
Jonah: Searched you pretty thoroughly, didn't they?
Lilah: Wouldn't you?

Jonah: You got anything new, Smith?
Smith: Thought you'd never ask.
[shows him new weapons]
Jonah: Wow...
Smith: I take it that means you approve?

[first lines]
Jonah: War and me took to each other real well. It felt like it had meaning. The feeling of doing what you thought was right. But it wasn't. Folks can believe what they like, but eventually a man's gotta decide if he's gonna do what's right. That choice cost me more than I bargained for.

Burly: Hey, what happened to your face...?
[Hex kills him with a thrown tomahawk]
Jonah: I'm all out of wiseass answers.

Jeb: You killed me, Jonah!
Jonah: You drew on me, Jeb.
Jeb: Yeah, that was a mistake.
Jonah: Well, obviously.

Dumbass: He don't look so tough.
Bartender: He looks tough to me.
Dumbass: Not to me. Watch this.
[draws a knife]
Dumbass: Hey, Hex! What happened to your face-?
[a gunshot blasts him through a window, and Hex lifts his hat off the bar, revealing his pistol]
Jonah: Cut myself shaving, what happened to yours?
[drops a coin on the bar]
Jonah: For the broken window.

[last lines]
Jonah: They say that a man with revenge in his heart should dig two graves. One for his enemy and one for himself. I guess mine's just gonna have to wait.

Jeb: I've been watching you, and I've been watching him, and I gotta tell you, it's getting real hard to tell the difference between you.
Jonah: Your father is a monster, you hear me?
Jeb: And you ain't? From where I sit, you're just two men bent on murdering people to make your own pain go away. Life like that, it sounds a hell of a lot like being damned.

Lilah: You worry about me, don't you?
Jonah: No.
Lilah: Mmm. Well, I worry about you. Look how many times have you been shot. It's just one more that's gonna do it.
Jonah: Well, it seems like I've been luckier than most in that respect.

[from trailer]
Lieutenant: Quentin Turnbull surfaced about a month ago.
Lieutenant: We want Turnbull dead.
Jonah: Why didn't you just say that to begin with?

[after killing the Stunk Crick Sheriff and his deputies, Hex takes the man's badge and pins it on the nearest man, who is staring at him, slack-jawed]
Jonah: Congratulations.

[Hex beats up a bunch of thugs who were attacking a dog for fun]
Jonah: [to the dog] I envy your good looks, boy.
[walks off, the dog follows him]

President: [pays Hex] Here's your reward, in full. I also hope you'll reconsider.
[Hex looks at a Sheriff badge]
Jonah: Country's too big for patrollin' sir. But if you're ever in a jam, you know who to call.

Jeb: You disobeyed a direct order.
Jonah: To burn down a hospital. Your father was gonna kill all those people, just to make a point. I couldn't stand for that. I'm surprised you could.
Jeb: He was our commanding officer, he was my father! I didn't have a choice.
Jonah: Neither did I.

Jonah: Keep him fed and watered. Don't you tie him up. If I don't come back for a spell, he'll know it. He'll head out on his own way.
Boy: He got a name?
Jonah: Yeah. Horse.
[to the dog]
Jonah: You. Yeah, I... I don't what to say to you.

[being raised from the dead]
Jeb: God! You are such an asshole.
Jonah: Good to see you again, too, Jeb.