50 Best Tombstone Quotes

Doc: Forgive me if I don't shake hands.

Doc: Oh. Johnny, I apologize; I forgot you were there. You may go now.

[last lines]
Narrator: The Red Sash Cowboy Gang was broken forever. Ike Clanton was shot and killed two years later during an attempted robbery. Mattie died of a drug overdose shortly after she left Tombstone. Virgil and Allie Earp moved to California where Virgil, despite the use of only one arm, became a town sheriff. Wyatt and Josephine embarked on a series of adventures. Up or down, thin or flush, in 47 years they never left each other's side. Wyatt Earp died in Los Angeles in 1929. Among the pallbearers at his funeral, were early western stars William S. Hart and Tom Mix. Tom Mix wept.

Doc: [to Johnny Ringo] Why Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.

Doc: I stand corrected, Wyatt. You're an oak.

Virgil: What the hell kinda town is this?
Morgan: Nice scenery.
Doc: Well, an enchanted moment.
Josephine: Interesting little scene. I wonder who that tall drink of water is.
Mr. Fabian: My dear, you've set your gaze upon the quintessential frontier type. Note the lean silhouette... eyes closed by the sun, though sharp as a hawk. He's got the look of both predator and prey.
Josephine: I want one.
Mr. Fabian: Happy hunting.

Wyatt: I don't think I'll let you arrest us today, Behan.

Doc: [after killing Johnny Ringo] It would appear that the strain was more than he could bear.

[Morgan is fatally wounded in a gunfight]
Morgan: Remember what I said about people seein' a bright light before they die? It ain't true. I can't see a damn thing.

Curly: [takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table] Wyatt Earp, huh? I heard of you.
Ike: Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. Law don't go around here. Savvy?
Wyatt: I'm retired.
Curly: Good. That's real good.
Ike: Yeah, that's good, Mr. Law Dog, 'cause law just don't go around here.
Wyatt: I heard you the first time.
[flips a card]
Wyatt: Winner to the King, five hundred dollars.
Curly: Shut up, Ike.
Johnny: [Ringo steps up to Doc] And you must be Doc Holliday.
Doc: That's the rumor.
Johnny: You retired too?
Doc: Not me. I'm in my prime.
Johnny: Yeah, you look it.
Doc: And you must be Ringo. Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darling? Should I hate him?
Kate: You don't even know him.
Doc: Yes, but there's just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of... me. No. I'm sure of it, I hate him.
Wyatt: [to Ringo] He's drunk.
Doc: In vino veritas.
["In: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind"]
Johnny: Age quod agis.
["Do: "Do what you do best"]
Doc: Credat Judaeus apella, non ego.
["The: "I don't believe drinking is what I do best."]
Johnny: [pats his gun] Eventus stultorum magister.
["Events are the teachers of fools" meaning: "Fools have to learn by experience"]
Doc: [gives a Cheshire cat smile] In pace requiescat.
["Rest: "It's your funeral!"]
Tombstone: Come on boys. We don't want any trouble in here. Not in any language.
Doc: Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Now I really hate him.

Doc: It's true, you are a good woman. Then again, you may be the antichrist.

Doc: [to Johnny Ringo, after shooting him in a duel] You're no daisy! You're no daisy at all. Poor soul, you were just too high strung.

Wyatt: Sheriff Behan, have you met Doc Holliday?
Doc: Piss on you, Wyatt.

[while watching a play in which Faust sells his soul to the Devil]
Curly: You know what I'd do? I'd take that deal 'n' crawfish, then drill that ol' Devil in the ass. What about you Juanito, what would you do?
Johnny: I already did it.

Frank: [a mortally wounded McLaury is taking aim at Doc] I've got you now... you son of a bitch!
Doc: [holds up arms] You're a daisy if you do!
[Morgan shoots McLaury]

[Wyatt Earp has just found out that the devil in a play was performed by a woman]
Wyatt: Well, I'll be damned.
Doc: You may indeed, if you get lucky.

Wyatt: From now on I see a red sash, I kill the man wearing it. So run you cur. And tell the other curs the law is coming. You tell 'em I'm coming! And Hell's coming with me you hear! Hell's coming with me!

Doc: Why Johnny Tyler! You madcap!
Johnny: Doc?
Doc: Where you goin' with that shotgun?

Wyatt: What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?
Doc: A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.
Wyatt: What does he need?
Doc: Revenge.
Wyatt: For what?
Doc: Bein' born.

Johnny: [Ringo has taken Holliday up on his offer to 'finish the game'] All right, 'lunger'. Let's do it.
Doc: Say when.

Wyatt: [to Ike Clanton] You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?

Wyatt: I just want you to know it's over between us.
Curly: Well... bye.
Johnny: Smell that, Bill? Smells like someone died.

Wyatt: [Tyler reaches for his gun] Go ahead, skin it! Skin that smokewagon and see what happens!
Johnny: [stammers, scared] Listen, mister, I - I'm - I'm - I'm gettin' awful tired of your...
Wyatt: [slaps Tyler across the face, unafraid] I'm gettin' tired of your gas. Now jerk that pistol and go to work!
Wyatt: [slaps him harder, now completely steely-eyed] I said throw down, boy!

Doc: What did you ever want?
Wyatt: Just to live a normal life.
Doc: There's no normal life, Wyatt, it's just life. Get on with it.
Wyatt: Don't know how.
Doc: Sure you do. Say goodbye to me. Go grab that spirited actress and make her your own. Take that beauty from it, don't look back. Live every second. Live right on to the end. Live Wyatt. Live for me. Wyatt, if you were ever my friend - if ya ever had even the slightest of feelin' for me, leave now. Leave now... Please.
Wyatt: Thanks for always being there, Doc.

Wyatt: All right, Clanton... you called down the thunder, well now you've got it! You see that?
[pulls open his coat, revealing a badge]
Wyatt: It says United States Marshal!
Ike: [terrified, pleading] Wyatt, please, I...
Wyatt: [referring to Stilwell, laying dead] Take a good look at him, Ike... 'cause that's how you're gonna end up!
[shoves Ike down roughly with his boot]
Wyatt: The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it!
[lets Ike up to run for his life]
Wyatt: So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the law's comin'!
[shouts]
Wyatt: You tell 'em I'M coming... and hell's coming with me, you hear?...
[louder]
Wyatt: Hell's coming with me!

Curly: Hey Johnny, what did that Mexican mean by a sick horse is going to get us?
Johnny: He was quoting the Bible, Revelations. "Behold the pale horse". The man who "sat on him was Death... and Hell followed with him".

Billy: Why, it's the drunk piano player. You're so drunk, you can't hit nothin'. In fact, you're probably seeing double.
[Billy Clanton draws a knife]
Doc: [takes out a second gun] I have two guns, one for each of ya.

Wyatt: How we feelin' today, Doc?
Doc: I'm dying. How are you?
Wyatt: Pretty much the same.

Wyatt: Fight's commenced! Get to fightin' or get away!

Doc: [taunting a card player who believes Holliday is cheating him] Why Ed does this mean we're not friends anymore? You know Ed, if I thought you weren't my friend... I just don't think I could bear it!

Ike: What is that now? Twelve hands in a row? Holliday, son of a bitch, nobody's that lucky.
Doc: Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Maybe poker's just not your game Ike. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!

Doc: Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.

Turkey: Nobody move!
Doc: Nonsense. By all means, move.

Wyatt: How many cards do you want?
Doc: I don't want to play any more.
Wyatt: How many?
Doc: Damn it, you're the most fallible, stubborn, self-deluded, bullheaded man I've ever known in my entire life.
Wyatt: I call.
[looks at Doc's cards]
Wyatt: You win.
Doc: You're the only human being in my entire life that ever gave me hope...

Wyatt: You gonna do somethin' or just stand there and bleed?

Doc: Why Kate, you're not wearing a bustle. How lewd.

Wyatt: [to Josephine Marcus] I have nothing left, nothing to give you, I have no pride, no dignity, no money, I don't even know how we'll make a living, but I promise I'll love you the rest of your life
[they kiss]

Doc: It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Wyatt: Doc you're not a hypocrite, you just like to sound like one.

Doc: I'm your huckleberry...

Billy: [as Doc Holliday is drunkenly playing a somber piece on the saloon piano, Clanton speaks, just as drunkenly] Is that "Old Dog Trey? Sounds like "Old Dog Trey."
Doc: Pardon?
Billy: Stephen Foster. "Oh, Susannah", "Camptown Races". Stephen stinking Foster.
Doc: Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne.
Billy: A which?
Doc: You know, Frederic fucking Chopin.

Florentino: [attempting to translate what the Mexican priest said] He talkin loco... crazy... somethin' about a sick horse comin' to get us.
Johnny: That's not what he said, you ignorant wretch. Your Spanish is worse than your English.

Doc: Make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after. It's a reckonin'.

Johnny: [waiting by an oak tree for Wyatt Earp for a showdown, he believes the person approaching is Wyatt] Well,I didn't think ya had it in you.
Doc: I'm your huckleberry.
[Ringo is startled that it's Holliday and not Wyatt]
Doc: Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.
Johnny: Fight's not with you, Holliday.
Doc: I'll beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood, remember?
Johnny: I was just foolin' about.
Doc: I wasn't. And this time...
[opens his coat to reveal a U.S. Deputy Marshal Badge]
Doc: ... it's legal.
Johnny: All right, lunger. Let's do it.
Doc: [they both start moving in circles slowly into position for a showdown, staring at each other without blinking] Say when.
Doc: [they both draw but Holliday is a tad quicker and shoots Ringo in the head and Ringo struggles to stay standing and finally falls] Poor soul. You were just too high-strung.
[Holliday places the badge on Ringo's corpse]
Doc: [Holliday hears running footsteps and turns to see Wyatt Earp approaching] I'm afraid the strain was more than he could bear. Oh, I wasn't quite as sick as I made out.
Wyatt: Good God.
[knells to examine Ringo and picks up the badge]
Doc: My hypocrisy goes only so far.
Wyatt: All right. Let's finish it.
Doc: Indeed, sir. The last charge of Wyatt Earp and his immortals

Turkey: Doc, you oughta be in bed, what the hell you doin this for anyway?
Doc: Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Turkey: Hell, I got lots of friends.
Doc: I don't.

Frank: [Stillwell and Ike are planning to ambush the Earps at the train station] That's Virgil there with the women.
Ike: He's mine, understand?
Frank: [Cocking his rifle] Hey Mattie! Where's Wyatt?
Wyatt: Right behind you, Stillwell.
[Shoots Stillwell as he turns around]

Texas: Did you ever see anything like that before?
Turkey: Hell, I ain't never even heard of anything like that.

Wyatt: [Before the shootout at the OK Corral] "It's not your problem, Doc, you don't have to mix up in this."
Doc: [Offeneded] "That is a hell of a thing for you to say to me."

Wyatt: How are you?
Doc: I'm dying, how are you?

Sherman McMasters: Where is he?
Doc: Down by the creek, walking on water.

Johnny: My fight's not with you, Holliday.
Doc: I beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. "Play for Blood," remember?
Johnny: Oh that. I was just foolin' about.
Doc: I wasn't.