Tucson Smith: You better hit the hay, Romeo. You and Dave got a long ride ahead of you tomorrow.
Nancy Carson: Where?
Stony Brooke: We're taking the petition to Governor White.
Nancy Carson: Oh.
Stony Brooke: How about you going in my place tomorrow?
Tucson Smith: [looking at Nancy] Oh, no. I'm going to stay here and watch the mine.
Stony Brooke: Well, be sure its the mine you look after.


--John Wayne (as ) in Santa Fe Stampede

Lullaby Joslin: C'mon, let's invite the ladies to scram.
Tucson Smith: Let me do it. I'll, you know, sort of break it to her gently.
Stony Brooke: Tactful Tucson, they call him - the big-hearted bouncer.


--John Wayne (as ) in Three Texas Steers

Marshal George Higgins: It seems mighty funny to me that every time this gang organizes a rodeo, their own men win all the first prizes. When it begins to look like an outsider is going to win, he gets sick. Two or three has even died from it.
John Weston: Well, you can't arrest them for that, Marshal.
Marshal George Higgins: No, maybe not. But it's might peculiar that when these outsides fall off them top broncs, they're suffering from snakebite. I tell ya, it just ain't natural.
John Weston: What do you want me to do? Get snake bit?


--John Wayne (as ) in The Man from Utah

Bud Elder: I'm going with you. I can draw pretty fast. We can be famous -- like the Dalton Brothers!
John Elder: They're famous -- but they're just a little bit dead. They were hung!


--John Wayne (as John Elder) in The Sons of Katie Elder

Ransom Stoddard: I don't want to kill him, I just want to put him in jail!
Tom Doniphon: Ohhh...


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

Ruth Cameron: They say you're going to hunt down Flack and Lopez.
Breck Coleman, Wagon Train Scout: That's what I aim to do.
Ruth Cameron: But you can't do this awful thing - take two lives.
Breck Coleman, Wagon Train Scout: Frontier justice.


--John Wayne (as ) in The Big Trail

Mayor Gil Byron: Just a minute, Brooke. You've been through a terrible ordeal. I can promise you that every man responsible will be punished before I'm through.
Stony Brooke: You're through right now.


--John Wayne (as ) in Santa Fe Stampede

Dinkey Hooley: Where's this cousin of yours at?
Dare Rudd: Wyoming
Dinkey Hooley: Where do your figure Wyoming's at?
Dare Rudd: Right over yonder beyond that hill... unless somebody's moved it.


--John Wayne (as ) in Born to the West

Kansas Charlie, aka Rev. Harry Smith: Do you mean to insinuate that I'm dumb?
John Scott, aka John Jones: No. Dumber!


--John Wayne (as John Scott / John Jones) in The Desert Trail

Loxi: Where is Captain Jack?
Capt. Phillip Philpott: He's on a diving job. He'll be back this afternoon
[chuckle]
Capt. Phillip Philpott: if his hat didn't leak!


--John Wayne (as Capt. Jack Stuart) in Reap the Wild Wind