Muggsy: [Inmate Muggsy, accompanied by prison guard Hodges, walking across the prison yard] You know, the way I got it figured out...
Hodges: Make sense. What are you trying to say?
Muggsy: Well, uh, I gotta' favor to pose you.
Hodges: Don't ask me no favors. I can't be bribed, see? Besides, you ain't got enough dough to bribe me.


--Jay C. Flippen (as Hodges) in Brute Force

Jeremy Baile: Good country, Glyn.
Glyn McLyntock: Yeah, real good country.
Jeremy Baile: Let's hope we can keep it this way. Missouri and Kansas was like this when I first saw 'em... good, clean. It was the men who came in to steal and kill that changed things. We mustn't let it happen here.


--Jay C. Flippen (as Jeremy Baile) in Bend of the River

Old Tom Hutter: Thank ye, oh Lord, for delivering my enemies into my hands. When them blood-lustin' heathen Hurons come loping this way, I'm going to give 'em hellfire and damnation right out of the mouth of my cannon. I'm going to smite 'em hip and thigh like the Good Book says... and teach 'em the error of their sinful ways. Amen, Lord.


--Jay C. Flippen (as ) in The Deerslayer

Police Insp. Jim Fowler: I'll admit mister that I've heard stories that make less sense than that.
[pause]
Police Insp. Jim Fowler: They happen to be true.


--Jay C. Flippen (as Police Insp. Jim Fowler) in A Woman's Secret

Walking Coyote: I coulda been a chief.
Pvt. O'Meara, 6th Virginia Volunteers Sharpshooter: Oh yeah? How come you're not a chief now?
Walking Coyote: Eh, I got no stomach for politics.


--Jay C. Flippen (as ) in Run of the Arrow

Cat: You killed my Father!
Sheriff Cardigan: Oh, that can't be. He's been sitting right there all morning.
Cat: No, I saw him.
Man #1: He hasn't been out that rocker all morning long.
Man #2: It's a fact.
Cat: Why do you say that?
Sheriff Cardigan: Just telling the truth.


--Jay C. Flippen (as Sheriff Ed Cardigan) in Cat Ballou

[first lines]
Frank Colloni: Whaddya say, Joe.
[to Charley]
Frank Colloni: Boy, this is sure seein' Europe the hard way!
Charley Grayson: Aw, it's better than dodgin' those sheriffs in Kentucky. Besides, we might do pretty good here.


--Jay C. Flippen (as Charley Grayson) in Carnival Story