Eddie: [Oft repeated line] Was you ever bit by a dead bee?


--Walter Brennan (as Eddie) in To Have and Have Not

Eddie: Drinking don't bother my memory. If it did I wouldn't drink. I couldn't. You see, I'd forget how good it was, then where'd I be? Start drinkin' water, again.


--Walter Brennan (as Eddie) in To Have and Have Not

Eddie: I've been figuring, them guys don't think that I'm wise, but they was trying to get me drunk.
[laughs]
Eddie: They don't know me, do they, Harry?
[Hiccups]


--Walter Brennan (as Eddie) in To Have and Have Not

J. F. 'Thunder' Bolt: Bless this food and us that eats it. Amen.


--Walter Brennan (as ) in Home in Indiana

Judge Roy W. Bean: Don't spill none of that liquor, son. It eats right into the bar.


--Walter Brennan (as Judge Roy Bean) in The Westerner

Judge Roy W. Bean: I haven't worn this uniform since Chickamaugie, but it still fits right smart.


--Walter Brennan (as Judge Roy Bean) in The Westerner

Judge Roy W. Bean: Mr. Harden, it's my duty to inform you that the larceny of an equine is a capital offense punishableby death, but you can rest assured that in this court a horse thief always gets a fair trial before he's hung.


--Walter Brennan (as Judge Roy Bean) in The Westerner

Judge Roy W. Bean: Shad Wilkins, you've been tried and found guilty of the most serious crime west of the Pecos, to wit: shooting a steer. Do you got anything to say for yourself before the sentence of the court is executed?
Shad Wilkins: I told you they shot at me first. I didn't mean to kill that steer on purpose. I was aiming at the man.
Judge Roy W. Bean: It's your bad luck you missed him. That's the trouble with you sodbusters...you can't shoot straight. Shad, may the Lord have mercy on your soul.


--Walter Brennan (as Judge Roy Bean) in The Westerner

Kris Barden: Did you ever notice how them four always stick together?
Fred Barden: Why not? Reardon and Shotten work for Riling, and Garry's a friend that just came in to help.
Kris Barden: I can buy me that kind of friend for $75 a month and no questions asked.


--Walter Brennan (as Kris Barden) in Blood on the Moon

Nadine Groot: Never liked seeing strangers. Maybe it's because no stranger ever good newsed me.


--Walter Brennan (as Nadine Groot) in Red River