Rooster Cogburn: That Chinamen is running them cheap shells on me again.
LaBoeuf: I thought you gonna say the sun was in your eyes. That is to say, your Eye!
Mattie Ross: And "futile", Marshal Cogburn, "pursuit would be futile"? It's not spelled "f-u-d-e-l."
Rooster Cogburn: [LaBoeuf has been talking about malum prohibitum and malum in se] It astonishes me that Mr. LaBoeuf has been shot, trampled, and nearly bitten his tongue off, and yet not only does he continue to talk but he spills the banks of English.
Mattie Ross: [anxiously watching four men riding to kill Rooster Cogburn] Shoot them, Mr. Laboeuf!
LaBoeuf: [aiming his rifle] Too far. Movin' too fast.
[from trailer]
Lucky Ned Pepper: I will kill this girl.
Rooster Cogburn: Biggest mistake you ever made.
Rooster Cogburn: [looks up at the hanging corpse] Is it Cheney?
Mattie Ross: I would not recognize the soles of his feet.
Rooster Cogburn: Well, you'll have to clamber up and look. I'm too old and too fat.
Rooster Cogburn: [referring to the defense attorney] Pencil-necked son of a bitch!
Bear Man: You might want to head over to the Original Greaser Bob's. He notched a dugout into a hollow along the Coralon River. If you ride the river you won't fail to see it. Greaser Bob, the Original Greaser Bob, is hunting north of the picket wire and would not begrudge its use.
Lucky Ned Pepper: Your friend Rooster does not collect many prisoners.
Mattie Ross: He is not my friend. He has abandoned me to a congress of louts.
Lucky Ned Pepper: You do not varnish your opinions.
Rooster Cogburn: Is that him?
Mattie Ross: I believe not.
Rooster Cogburn: Oh, cut him down.
Mattie Ross: [incredulous] Why?
Rooster Cogburn: I might know him.
LaBoeuf: It is you who have nothing to offer, Cogburn! A sad picture indeed. This is no longer a manhunt, it is a debauch. The Texas Ranger presses on... alone.
Moon: [Cogburn is offering the wounded Moon help in exchange for informations] My leg is giving me fits.
Rooster Cogburn: Yes, a young fellow like you don't want to lose his leg.
Emmett Quincy: [to Moon] He's trying to get at you!
Rooster Cogburn: ...with the truth.
Emmett Quincy: [to Mattie] Who worked you over with the ugly stick?
Rooster Cogburn: That didn't pan out.
