BEST QUOTES FROM
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER



PREACHER: See here, you can't turn all these people out into the night. It is inhuman, brother. Inhuman!

STRANGER: I'm not your brother.

PREACHER: We are all brothers in the eyes of God.

STRANGER: All these people, are they your sisters and brothers?

PREACHER: They most certainly are.

STRANGER: Then you won't mind if they come over and stay at your place, will ya?

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STRANGER: I'd love to oblige you, but ... a man's got to get his rest sometime.

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STRANGER: Somebody left the door open and the wrong dogs came home.

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SARAH: I knew you were cruel, but I didn't know how far you'd go.

STRANGER: Well, you still don't.

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STRANGER: Well, it's what people know about themselves inside that make them afraid.

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STRANGER: Out.

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STRANGER: (Taking a swig of whiskey) To your feet ma'am. They're almost as big as your mouth.

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BILLY BORDERS: Flea bitten range bums don't usually stop in Lago. Life here's a little too quick for them. Maybe you think you're fast enough to keep up with us, huh?

STRANGER: A lot faster than you'll ever live to be.

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SHERIFF: The ambush. What would it cost us?

STRANGER: Sheriff, I don't know as if I really like this town that much.

SHERIFF: Well this is a God fearin' town. These are God-fearing people

STRANGER: You like ‘em... you save ‘em.

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CALLIE: You're an animal!

STRANGER: Well you have a way of bringing that out.

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DAVE DRAKE: I hope you're not going to blame us for Morgan Allen's stupidity, because the rest of us here have a... have an agreement with you.

STRANGER: Well, right now I don't feel too agreeable.

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MORDECAI: I'm just about done here. I never did know your name.

STRANGER: Yes you do.

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STRANGER: I wonder what took her so long to get mad.



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