Marian Starrett: Guns aren't going to be my boy's life! Joey: Why do you always have to spoil everything? Shane: A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man u...
[first lines] Joey: Somebody's comin', Pa! Joe Starrett: Well, let him come.
Shane: So you're Jack Wilson. Jack Wilson: What's that mean to you, Shane? Shane: I've heard about you. Jack Wilson: What have you heard, Shane? Shane: I've heard that you're a low-down Yankee liar. Jack Wilson: Prove it.
Joey: Was that him? Was that Wilson? Shane: That was him. That was Wilson, all right, and he was fast, fast on the draw.
[last lines] Joey: Shane. Shane! Come back! Bye, Shane.
Joey: I just love Shane!
[after Shane enters the bar and orders asks for a soda pop, Chris tries to bully him] Chris Calloway: Well, what'll it be? Lemon, strawberry or lilac, sodbuster? Shane: You speakin' to me? Chris Calloway: I don't see nobody else standin' there. [thro...
Shane: You were watchin' me down it for quite a spell, weren't you? Joey: Yes I was. Shane: You know, I... I like a man who watches things go on around. It means he'll make his mark someday.
[after the meal that the Starretts share with Shane] Shane: That was an elegant dinner, Mrs. Starrett.
Rufus Ryker: I'll kill him if I have to. Jack Wilson: You mean I'll kill him if you have to.
[Wilson is trying to goad Torrey into drawing on him] Wilson: I guess they named a lot of that Southern trash after old Stonewall. Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey: Who'd they name you after? Or do you know? Wilson: I'm saying that Stonewall Jackson was tras...
Shane: Do you mind putting down that gun? Then I'll leave. Joe Starrett: What difference does it make, you're leaving anyway? Shane: I'd like it to be my idea.
Joey: I bet it stings like anything!
Joey: Pa's got things for you to do. And Mother wants you. I know she does!
Joey: Could you whip him, Pa? Could you whip Shane? Joe Starrett: Don't you ask nothin' but questions? Joey: But could you? Joe Starrett: Ooh, maybe. But there's no call for that, Joey. Shane's on our side.
Joe Starrett: What Ryker has comin' isn't fit for a woman to see.
Shane: I gotta be going on. Joey: Why, Shane? Shane: A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can't break the mould. I tried it and it didn't work for me. Joey: We want you, Shane. Shane: Joey, there's no living with... with a killing. There's no going back...
Rufus Ryker: [speaking of Joe Starrett] Tell him I'm a reasonable man. Tell him things have gone far enough. Tell him I'm beat. Tell him anything but, by Jupiter, get him here!
