The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970
Reverend Joshua Sloan: Since I cannot rouse heaven I intend to raise hell.
Reverend Joshua Sloan: Did it ever occur to you how wise and bountiful God was to put breasts on a woman? Just the right number in just the right places.
Cable Hogue: I'll live to spit on your grave!
Cable Hogue: If sugar were two cents a barrel, I couldn't afford a pinch of salt and egg to put on it.
The Stranger: Give me that rifle! Cable Hogue: I'll give you what's in it!
Reverend Joshua Sloan: Vengenance is mine sayeth the Lord. Cable Hogue: Well, that's fair enough with me... just as long as he don't take too long and I can watch.
Cable Hogue: Josh, it's about time you earned your keep. Preach me a funeral sermon. Hildy: Oh, for heaven's sake! Cable Hogue: A good one. Don't make me out no saint but don't put me down to deep. Reverend Joshua Sloan: You mean now? Cable Hogue: Yeah. It's not knowing what they're going to say about you, that's all. Now all my life, I've been scared of this living. Now... got to do the other. Now come on now! I can't wait all day. I ain't got any time.
(Cable's partners have abandoned him in the desert without water) Cable Hogue: Ain't had no water since yesterday, Lord. Gettin' a little thirsty. Just thought I'd mention it. Amen.
Cable Hogue: Yesterday, I told you I was thirsty and I thought you might turn up some water. Now about sinnin', you just send me a drop or two and I won't do it no more... whatever in hell it was that I did. I mean that, Lord.
Cable Hogue: Four days without water... if you don't think I've put in my sufferin' time, you oughta try goin' dry for a spell. Listen to me! Listen to me! If I don't get some soon, I ain't gonna have no chance to repent.
(collapse from thirst) Cable Hogue: Lord, you call it. I'm just plain done in. Amen. (glances at his boot and sees that it's caked with mud, then scrapes around in the sand until he locates a small spring) Cable Hogue: Told you I was gonna live. This is Cable Hogue talkin'! Hogue! Me! Cable Hogue! Hogue... me... me... I did it... Cable Hogue... I found it... me...
(Hogue points a rifle at his former partner) Taggart: You ain't got the guts, Hogue.
(last lines) Reverend Joshua Sloan: Lord, as the day draws towards evening, this life grows to the end of us all, we say "Adieu" to our friend. Take him, Lord, but knowing Cable, I suggest you do not take him lightly. Amen.
Hildy: (Talking about going to San Francisco) When I do, I'm gonna be the ladyest damn lady you saw.
Hildy: (singing) Butterfly mornings / And wildflower afternoons.