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- “The best way to handle life is to ride it like you stole it.” – Gus McCrae.
- “It ain’t dyin’ I’m talkin’ about, it’s livin’.” – Gus McCrae.
- “A man who wouldn’t cheat for a poke don’t want one bad enough.” – Gus McCrae.
- “I can’t say I hold with everything you’ve done, but I’m proud to ride with you.” – Woodrow F. Call.
- Larry McMurtry
- 1985
- “If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”
- “It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~ spoken by Augustus McCrae” ― Larry McMurtry,
- “Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.” ― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove.
- “The older the violin, the sweeter the music.” ― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove.
- I began with Call and we end with him. Though Gus gets a great number of the best lines, Woodrow gets, without question, the most powerful, most quoted line of all.
- Gus lays out a prescription for Lorie’s future happiness. She is obsessed with going to San Francisco, and he wants her to understand that that dream is likely a misguided one.
- This one is a tie – so close I couldn’t separate them.
- A touching line, uttered by Gus as he lay dying. He says to Woodrow: “It’s been quite a party ain’t it?”
20 of the best book quotes from Lonesome Dove. “Men who didn’t know how to get on and off a horse would not be much use around a cow outfit.”. “Call’s gone to round up a dern bunch of cowboys so we can head out for Montana with a dern bunch of cows and suffer for the rest of our lives.”.
"I never seen no line, Gus," he said. "I was just trying to get to Kansas without getting scalped . I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call .
Great memorable quotes and script exchanges from the Lonesome Dove movie on Quotes.net.
Quotes from Lonesome Dove. “If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”.
