Cherokee: You know, boys, it would be right peaceful here if this whinin' and playin' suddenly stopped.
Tex: [continues to strum his guitar] That reminds me of an hombre I once knew... always braggin' about how tough he was, and how fast he was on the draw. He and I had a crush on the same girl. 'Course it was no contest... my singin' and good looks cinched it. She fell for me. The showdown came when I was singin' a song he didn't like. I told him to go for his gun. Now considerin' everything, he was powerful fast... but not fast enough. And you know boys, I only missed two notes a-gettin' him... but I picked them up before he hit the floor.


--Tex Ritter (as ) in Song of the Gringo

Middleton Sheriff: What's going on here?
Tex Masters: Why, me and this hombre were just going to settle a little argument - that is, if they have a private room that they don't value too highly.


--Tex Ritter (as ) in Trouble in Texas

John 'Gospel' Moody: Why are you saddlin', Tex?
Tex Lawrence: I just got an idea. Now it's a cinch that nobody knows where to find you, so I'm goin' into town to see if I can find the fellow that stole that pardon.
John 'Gospel' Moody: Are you sure it's going to be safe?
Tex Lawrence: Well, I'll tell you more about that the next time I see you.


--Tex Ritter (as Tex Lawrence) in Rollin' Plains

Marshal Tex Martin: Harris tried to murder me, but he got the bullet with the period on it.


--Tex Ritter (as ) in The Devil's Trail

Marshal Tex Martin: Hickok, I don't like to tie a man on a horse if he has to travel, but I don't mind shootin' him off of one if he tries to get away.


--Tex Ritter (as ) in The Devil's Trail

Marshal Tex Martin: You know, you got to run steel through a little fire before it's any good.


--Tex Ritter (as ) in The Devil's Trail

Marshal Ward Bailey: No, you stay here, Glowworm. We'll need a *live* witness to testify against Larkin. You're it.


--Tex Ritter (as ) in Marshal of Gunsmoke

Narrator: Clothing was no problem at all. Everybody wore leopard skins... Everybody except the leopards.


--Tex Ritter (as ) in The First Bad Man

Tex Lawrence: I want you to go down to the sheepherders' camp and tell Cain that she's changed her mind.
Ananias: That don't sound like a good idea to me.
Tex Lawrence: I know... that's why I'm sending you.


--Tex Ritter (as Tex Lawrence) in Rollin' Plains

Texas Ranger Panhandle Perkins: If people find out that the three strangers around here are lawmen, we won't find out nothin' from nobody, especially about who's killin' trappers and Indians around here.
Texas Ranger Dave Wyatt: Well, Panhandle's right again. If we're going to solve the mystery, we've got to work undercover.


--Tex Ritter (as ) in Frontier Fugitives