Tom Doniphon: Pompey, go find Doc Willoughby. If he's sober, bring him back.


--John Wayne (as Tom Doniphon) in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Tom Doniphon: Whoa, take 'er easy there, Pilgrim.


--John Wayne (as Tom Doniphon) in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Tom Doniphon: You talk too much, think too much. Besides, YOU didn't kill Liberty Valance.


--John Wayne (as Tom Doniphon) in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

U.S. Marshal John Travers: Whaddya find out?
Yak: Two men gonna hold up stage - Coyote Canyon. Much money on stage.
U.S. Marshal John Travers: Well, it looks like we're going to have our hands full.
Yak: More trouble - more fun!
U.S. Marshal John Travers: That's one way to look at it.


--John Wayne (as ) in The Star Packer

Young Matt: The bigger the man, the deeper the imprint. And when he's in love, he suffers knowing it's a dead end.


--John Wayne (as Young Matt) in The Shepherd of the Hills

Dita: Poor Paul. He was so kind! How could it happen?
Joe January: [Cynically] It happens...
Dita: But to him? He believed in God!
Joe January: I can't recite any Psalms for ya', but I know about people who believe in God. Our friend didn't! He put his faith in his father. A man! A human being! That's an easy faith to lose. I know about that, too.
Dita: But he was a good man. He tried to do good. He dreamed of goodness all his life.
Joe January: I'm gettin' a little sick of this "Poor Paul," "Kind man," "Full of grace." What does it take to wake you up? He didn't believe in anything but being a big-shot with God as a front. I've seen these do-gooders before - usually doin' the most good for themSELVES! Believing in God is different than drooling over rubies and emeralds.


--John Wayne (as ) in Legend of the Lost

Dita: You never kissed me like thatt before.
Joe January: I always meant to.


--John Wayne (as ) in Legend of the Lost

Greg Parker: [after being awakened by a kiss from Tish] What are you doing here?
Chance Buckman: [being awakened by Greg's question] What's Tish doing here?
Madelyn Buckman: That was my idea.
Chance Buckman: Somebody wake me up!


--John Wayne (as Chance Buckman) in Hellfighters

Billy Pratt: [George is carrying three fresh bottles of champagne to Jenny's cabin] Now see what you did?
Sam McCord: [sarcasticly] Well what did I did?
Billy Pratt: You have Michelle so confused that she don't know what she's doing, and now George is over there with my girl!
Sam McCord: [disgusted] Ohhhhhh!


--John Wayne (as Sam McCord) in North to Alaska

Billy Pratt: Sam, do you think George is keeping her over there, you know, against her will?
Sam McCord: Oh, sure! You can hear her screamin' for help, can't ya?
Billy Pratt: Gosh, I just don't understand Michelle...
Sam McCord: There's one thing you gotta learn about women. They're all liars. And if they ain't liars, they're worse, laying for you with wedding music. Take that little dame from Oregon. All I was doing was tying her shoe laces and she starts beating me over the head with a preacher. Or that little thing from Minnesota, who tried to marry me while I was so drunk I didn't know what I was doing, if it hadn't been for the parson's mercy, I'd have been hooked good, for good! You just can't trust women. No matter how honest they act, they all want to be wives!


--John Wayne (as Sam McCord) in North to Alaska