Stagecoach (1939)

Thomas Mitchell: Doc Josiah Boone

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Quotes 

• Marshal Curly Wilcox : Come busting in here - you'd think we were being attacked! You can find another wife.

  Chris : Sure I can find another wife. But she take my rifle and my horse. Oh, I'll never sell her. I love her so much. I beat her with a whip and she never get tired.

  Dr. Josiah Boone : Your wife?

  Chris : No, my horse. I can find another wife easy, yes, but not a horse like that!

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Josiah Boone : Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization.

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : Yeah.

  [laughs] 

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : Doc, I'll buy you a drink.

  Dr. Josiah Boone : Just one.

• [the stagecoach occupants vote on whether to continue without a cavalry escort] 

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : You, Doc?

  Dr. Josiah Boone : I'm not only a philosopher, sir, I'm a fatalist. Somewhere, sometime, there may be the right bullet or the wrong bottle waiting for Josiah Boone. Why worry when or where?

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : Yes or no?

  Dr. Josiah Boone : Having that philosophy, sir, I've always courted danger. During the late war - when I had the honor to serve the Union under our great president, Abraham Lincoln... and General Phil Sheridan - well, sir, I fought mid shot and shell and cannon roar...

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : Do you wanna go back or not?

  Dr. Josiah Boone : No! I want another drink.

• Dr. Josiah Boone : I'll take that shotgun, Luke.

  Luke Plummer : You'll take it in the belly if you don't get out of my way.

  Dr. Josiah Boone : I'll have you indicted for murder if you step outside with that shotgun.

  Luke Plummer : [throws the shotgun on the bar]  We'll attend to you later.

  Dr. Josiah Boone : [to bartender after Plummer leaves]  Don't ever let me do that again.

• Dr. Josiah Boone : Seems to me I knew your family, Henry. Didn't I fix your arm once when you, oh, bumped off a horse?

  Ringo Kid : Are you Doc Boone?

  Dr. Josiah Boone : I certainly am. Ah, let's see... I'd just been honorably discharged from the Union Army after the War of the Rebellion.

  Hatfield : You mean the War for the Southern Confederacy, sir.

  Dr. Josiah Boone : I mean nothing of the kind, sir!

  Ringo Kid : That was my kid brother broke his arm. You did a good job, Doc, even if you was drunk.

  Dr. Josiah Boone : Thank you, son. Professional compliments are always pleasing. What happened to that boy whose arm I fixed?

  Ringo Kid : He was murdered.

• Hatfield : Put out that cigar. You're annoying this lady.

  Dr. Josiah Boone : Excuse me, madame. Being so partial to the weed myself, I sometimes forget that it disagrees with others.

• Dr. Josiah Boone : Jerry, I'll admit as one man to another that, economically, I haven't been of much value to you. But do you suppose you could put one on credit?

  Jerry (bartender) : If talk was money, Doc, you'd be the best customer I got.

• Dr. Josiah Boone : Well, now that the danger is past, Mr...

  Samuel Peacock : ...Peacock.

  Dr. Josiah Boone : Ladies and gentlemen, since it's most unlikely we'll ever have the pleasure of meeting again socially, I'd like to propose a toast. Major, Gatewood, Ringo... to your health.

• The Ringo Kid : That was my kid brother that broke his arm. You did a good job, Doc, even if you were drunk.

  Dr. Josiah Boone : Thank you, son. Professional compliments are always pleasing.

• Dr. Josiah Boone : [drunkenly to his hideous landlady upon eviction]  Is this the face that wrecked 1000 ships and burned the towerless tops of Illium? Farewell, fair Helen.

• Dallas : [the ladies of the Law and Order League are running Dallas out of town; Doc Boone is being thrown out by his landlady]  Doc, haven't I any right to live? What have I done?

  Dr. Josiah Boone : We're the victims of a foul disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the Law and Order League are scouring out the dregs of the town. Come on. Be a proud, glorified dreg like me.

  Tonto Sheriff : You get goin' Doc. You're drunk.

  Boone's Landlady : Hmmph! Two of a kind! Just two of a kind.

  Dr. Josiah Boone : [Offering Dallas his arm, then making a reference to the French Revolution]  Take my arm, Madame le Comtesse! The tumbrel awaits. To the guillotine!

• Hatfield : A gentleman doesn't smoke in the presence of a lady.

  Dr. Josiah Boone : Three weeks ago I took a bullet out of a man who was shot by a gentleman. The bullet was in his back!

  Hatfield : You mean to insinuate...

  Ringo Kid : Sit down, mister. Doc don't mean no harm.

• Dr. Josiah Boone : [drunkenly singing]  My horse has gone, She has gone astray, With a son...

  Buck : Quiet, Doc! This is a serious matter, ain't it?

  Dr. Josiah Boone : My dear, Buck. If I have only one hour to live, I'm gonna enjoy myself.