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- Charles Portis
- 1968
- “You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.” ― Charles Portis, True Grit.
- “Nothing I like to do pays well.” ― Charles Portis, True Grit.
- “Lookin' back is a bad habit.” ― Charles Portis, True Grit.
- “But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?” ― Charles Portis, True Grit.
21 of the best book quotes from True Grit. “My family has property and I don’t know why I’m being treated like this.”. “I said, “That is my father.”. I stood there looking at him. What a waste! Tom Chaney would pay for this! I would not rest easy until that Louisiana cur was roasting and screaming in hell!”. “Your life depends ...
Quotes Interpret. 'We move in a cloud of dust and eat dust. Dust as powdered gold. Dust and the blood of innocents and men drunken and guilty of cowardice and stupidity, and the blood and brains and souls of all good things and all evil things cut short in the moment of triumph and in the instant of crime. True Grit.
If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time. You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed. I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance. People do not give it ...
There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.”. ― Charles Portis, quote from True Grit. Copy text. “Nothing I like to do pays well.”. ― Charles Portis, quote from True Grit. Copy text. “Lookin' back is a bad habit.”. ― Charles Portis, quote from True Grit.
Chapter 4 Quotes. “I want Chaney to pay for killing my father and not some Texas bird dog.”. “It will not be for the dog, it will be for the senator, and your father too. He will be just as dead that way, you see, and pay for all his crimes at once.”.
122 quotes from Charles Portis: 'You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.', 'Nothing I like to do pays well.', and 'Lookin' back is a bad habit.'.
