[Rooster watches Mattie struggle to bring water up to their camp] Rooster Cogburn: You look like a hog on ice.
[at the camp, Mattie tastes the water] Mattie Ross: That tastes like iron. LaBoeuf: You're lucky to be where water's so handy. I've seen the time I've drank out of a filthy hoofprint - and was glad to get it. Rooster Cogburn: If ever I meet one of yo...
[Rooster, LaBoeuf and Mattie are taking the bodies back to McAlester's] Rooster Cogburn: [to LaBoeuf] What outfit were you with during the war? LaBoeuf: Shreveport, with Kirby Smith. Rooster Cogburn: Oh, I mean what side were you on? LaBoeuf: I serve...
[at McAlester's, Boots and Rooster are discussing the dead men; LaBoeuf walks up] Capt. Boots Finch: So this is the man shot Ned Pepper's horse from under him. Rooster Cogburn: Yeah! This is the famous horse killer from El Paso. He believes in puttin...
[Rooster is caught under his horse; as Ned starts to shoot him, La Boeuf fires from the ridge and hits Ned's horse; Ned falls dead] Mattie Ross: Hooray for the man from Texas! Some bully shot!
[after LaBoeuf pulls Rooster and Mattie from the snake pit, he collapses off his horse; they go to him but it's too late] Rooster Cogburn: Texican... saved my neck twice. Once after he was dead.
LaBoeuf: I wouldn't count too much on bein' able to shade somebody I didn't know, fella. Rooster Cogburn: [laughs] I ain't never seen nobody from Texas I couldn't shade.
Rooster Cogburn: Baby sister, I was born game and I intend to go out that way.
Rooster Cogburn: Well, sister, the time has come for me to ride hard and fast.
Goudy: Now is it not true that you sprang up on old man Wharton and his two sons with a deadly, six shot revolver in your hand? Rooster Cogburn: I always try to be ready. Goudy: Was this revolver loaded and cocked? Rooster Cogburn: Well, a gun that's...
Rooster Cogburn: LaBouef, you get cross ways of me and you'll think a thousand of BRICK have fell on you! You'll wish you was back at the Alamo with TRAVIS!
Ned Pepper: Now, what are you doin' here? Mattie Ross: Tom Chaney shot my father to death in Fort Smith. I was told that Rooster Cogburn has grit. I hired him to go after the murderer. I found him myself and I shot him. If I killed him I would not be...
Ned Pepper: [laughs] They will do it. Most girls like little play pretties, but you like guns, don't you? Mattie Ross: If I did I'd have one that worked.
Rooster Cogburn: Judge Parker. Old carpetbagger, *but he knows his rats*! We had a good court going on here 'til them pettifogging *lawyers* moved in!
Rooster Cogburn: Any man who packs a big bore Sharps carbine could come in mighty handy, if we're attacked by buffalo... or elephants.
Lawyer Daggett: Am I addressing Marshal Reuben J. Cogburn? Rooster Cogburn: You're addressing him, Chen Lee and General Sterling Price. Lawyer Daggett: Well... I'll not ask which is which. But I'll identify myself: I am lawyer J. Noble Daggett. Roost...
Moon: Quincy, he never played me false until he killed me.
Rooster Cogburn: You sure you don't want the snake, too?
