Mike Devereaux: He'll cool down... and when he does he'll make the deal. He's too smart not to. Ain't that right, Ben?
Ben Devereaux: I don't know. But anybody that throws $10,000 in a spittoon makes me nervous.


--Richard Widmark (as Ben Devereaux) in Broken Lance

Nell Forbes: Did you fly a bomber during the war?
Jed Towers: Who didn't?


--Richard Widmark (as ) in Night Without Sleep

Dr. O'Carberry: [quote] The whole truth of the matter is that you let this become a test of wills between you and the Cheyenne. You have made it your own personal fight!
Capt. Oskar Wessels: You are a liar! You lie! Nothing I have done is personal. I am a soldier. I was a soldier in Prussia and I am a soldier here! All my life I have given and taken orders! What would this world be without orders? Anarchy! Chaos! I will not let that start here. And you... You... I will not let you spread these lies!


--Richard Widmark (as Capt. Thomas Archer) in Cheyenne Autumn

Olla: Well, where are we?
Rolfe: Civilization.
Olla: Huh?
Rolfe: [Disgustedly] No... you wouldn't understand that.


--Richard Widmark (as ) in The Long Ships

Rebecca 'Becky' Evans: Lije, Lije, stay home this time!
Lije Evans: I wish I could, but I can't.
Rebecca 'Becky' Evans: Why?
Lije Evans: I don't know why. It's just that I got to go where I've not been. And where I can say, "This far I've come, I can't go no further. Do you understand that?


--Richard Widmark (as ) in The Way West

Dick Pepper: [Expressing indignation over the fact that adoption agencies conduct background checks on prospective parents and their co-signers] Investigated? You mean they might be sneaking behind our backs without our knowing it?
August 'Augie' Poole: Sure. They'll assign a caseworker to us. A woman with her hair spun back in a bun, and a mouth like a mail slot. Typical 'American Gothic.' And leave us ask ourselves, what virtues she'll expect to find in the prospective parents and, uh, their co-signers. First, uh, stability, then solvency, next, uh, sobriety... and finally... chastity.
[Dick starts to look very uncomfortable upon hearing this]


--Richard Widmark (as ) in The Tunnel of Love

Dick Pepper: [Referring to his latest extramarital love interest] Ah, what a lovely thing. Just to look at her sends the blood coursing through my veins!
August 'Augie' Poole: [Cynically] In contrast to the *usual* route it takes...


--Richard Widmark (as ) in The Tunnel of Love

Dick Pepper: Maybe it is best to come clean and tell her everything. Confession *is* good for the soul.
August 'Augie' Poole: Only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff!


--Richard Widmark (as ) in The Tunnel of Love

Dick Pepper: You couldn't squeeze a thousand bucks out of me if you put me in a Waring mixer.
August 'Augie' Poole: Give me your check and date it ahead.
August 'Augie' Poole: If I gave you a check it would bounce from Westport to Port Arthur.


--Richard Widmark (as ) in The Tunnel of Love

Dick Pepper: You're like that plant. You need more elbow room, more dirt. A bigger jardinière. You'll never be an artist because you're denying yourself the emotional soil your roots need. You're pot-bound!
August 'Augie' Poole: [Taken aback] "Pot-bound"? Why, you mixed up Luther Burbank! You just attacked me for being too normal! That's a perfect example of 'doublethink'!


--Richard Widmark (as ) in The Tunnel of Love