The Best Lawrence Quotes

Man: This whole world is a story. I've read every page except the last one. I need to find out how it ends. I want to know what this all means.
Lawrence: See, now that's why I never learned to read.

- Fucking coward.
- Vaya con dios, motherfuckers.
- They're making a run for it!
- Come on, boys, get up!
Lawrence: Come on, stay close!
Man: Go, boys!
William: Dolores!

- What is it?
[Pants] Ambush.
- Is it the ghost nation?
Lawrence: Worse. The confederados.

Man: Right here.
Lawrence: Easy pumping that nitro into him.
- Fill the empties with Tequila and seal them up.
- Your work for the revolution is not quite done yet, my friend.

Dolores: [about Lawrence] I don't trust him.
Lawrence: Which is the first step to truly knowing me.

- Personal grudges hold no sway where profit is concerned.
Logan: Oh, we understand.
- We're businessmen, too.
Lawrence: Very well, then.
- But blondie here, she's gonna need a change of clothes for the occasion.
- Mmm.

- we need an army to get to where we're going.
- Looks like we're about to find one.
Lawrence: Whoever did this is someone I'm strongly disinclined to encounter.
- Yeah, I know.
Man: I'm afraid you are out of luck, my friend.

Man: You believe in God, Lawrence? Did Ford saddle you with that particular affliction?
Lawrence: Ain't given the matter much thought one way or the other.
Man: Well, if you did, you'd believe that everything you do's being watched by some all-seeing eye. Every choice, every little indiscretion. And when you die all your sins are tallied up, judgment is rendered.
Lawrence: And my immortal soul gets cast down into some dark place? Always sounded like bullshit to me.
Man: Yeah, in the real world you'd probably be right. Just some fairy tale to convince people to behave, pay their taxes, not take a machete to their neighbors. That's why your world exists. They wanted a place hidden from God. A place they could sin in peace. But we were watching them. We were tallying up all their sins, all their choices. Course, judgment wasn't the point. We had something else in mind entirely.

- Those are the folks who came calling without an invitation.
- You mean exactly what we're doing right now?
Lawrence: The train's the only way through.
- On foot, we'll be dead in under an hour.
- As soon as we're clear of their territory, we can stop. You can come with me.
- Nothing here on out but slaughter.

Lawrence: Careful. If you're heading west across that river, you may be leaving the fighting behind, but you're gonna be in unclaimed territories.
William: What's out that way?
Lawrence: You're gonna have to ask the dust. Ain't nothing ever come back from there.

Lawrence: They got my family. My daughter. You told me you had a daughter.
Man: Did I?
Lawrence: I don't know. At some point. You ain't exactly forthcoming, but I remember that much. Point is, you think she'd want to watch you gunned down in front of her?
Man: Probably.

- Lawrence! Get the gun, you ingrate.
- Lawrence, get the gun
Lawrence: He was dead.
- At least the better part of it.
- Well, dead isn't what it used to be, Lawrence.