My Darling Clementine Quotes

[At his brother's grave]

Wyatt Earp: 1864, 1882. 18 years. You didn't get much of a chance did you James? I wrote to Pa and Cory Sue. They're gonna be all busted up over it. Cory Sue's young, but Pa. I guess he'll never get over it. I'll be comin' out to see you regular James. So will Morg and Virg. I'm gonna be around here for a while. Can't tell. Maybe when we leave this country young kids like you will be able to grow up and live safe.

Wyatt Earp: Mac, you ever been in love?

Mac: No, I've been a bartender all me life.

Wyatt Earp: I've heard a lot about you, too, Doc. You left your mark around in Deadwood, Denver and places. In fact, a man could almost follow your trail goin' from graveyard to graveyard.

Doc Holliday: There's one here, too... the biggest graveyard west of the Rockies. Marshals and I usually get along much better when we understand that right away.

Wyatt Earp: Sure is rough-looking country. Ain't no cow country. Mighty different where I come from. What do they call this place?

Old Man Clanton: Just over the rise there. Big town... called Tombstone.

[Chihuahua has just been seriously wounded]

Wyatt Earp: Mac, you and Buck go down and clean up the saloon. Put a couple of tables together and put some lights around 'em. Doc, you're going to operate.

Clementine Carter: I love your town in the morning, Marshal. The air is so clean and clear... the scent of the desert flower.

Wyatt Earp: That's me... barber.

[after the shoot-out at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt refuses to shoot Old Man Clanton]

Old Man Clanton: My boys... Ike! Sam! Phin! Billy!

Wyatt Earp: They're dead. I ain't gonna kill you. I hope you live a hundred years... so you'll feel just a little what my pa's gonna feel. Now get out of town - start wandering!

[as Wyatt is leaving the hotel after taking the marshal's job, he meets Clanton and his sons]

Wyatt Earp: I'm the fella with the trail herd, remember?

Old Man Clanton: Oh, sure, I remember you.

Wyatt Earp: You was right. I didn't get very far with 'em. They was rustled this evening.

Old Man Clanton: That so? Well, that's too bad.

[Wyatt starts out the door]

Old Man Clanton: I guess you'll be headin' for California, huh?

Wyatt Earp: No, I figured on stickin' around awhile. Got myself a job.

Old Man Clanton: Cowpunching?

Wyatt Earp: Marshalin'.

Old Man Clanton: Marshalln'? In Tombstone?

[laughs]

Old Man Clanton: Well... good luck to ya, Mister...?

Wyatt Earp: Earp. Wyatt Earp.

[last lines]

Wyatt Earp: Ma'am, I sure like that name... Clementine.

Doc Holliday: I see we're in opposite camps, Marshal. Draw!

[Draws gun on Wyatt Earp, bar goes quiet]

Wyatt Earp: [Pulls open his vest showing he is unarmed] Can't...

Doc Holliday: We can take care of that easily enough. Mac...!

Wyatt Earp: [Virgil Earp slides pistol to Wyatt, who picks it up and examines it] Brother Morg's gun.

[Slides gun back to Morgan, Doc turns to see Morgan pick up pistol and holster it. Doc holsters his pistol as well]

Wyatt Earp: Big one, that's Morg. The other one, that good lookin' fella, that's my brother Virg. Doc Holliday, fellas!

Morgan Earp: [Smiling] Hiya, Doc!

Virgil Earp: Howdy.

Doc Holliday: Howdy!

[Looks back at Wyatt, who smiles, then back at Morgan and Virgil]

Doc Holliday: Have a drink!

[Tension in bar breaks, music starts again]

Morgan Earp: Don't mind if I do, Doc!

[Slaps Doc on back]

Granville Thorndyke: Shakespeare was not meant for taverns... nor for tavern *louts*.

Ike Clanton: [Grabbing Thorndyke's arm] Yorick stays here!

[Wyatt Earp pistol-whips Clanton across the forehead]

Wyatt Earp: [Wyatt Earp enters hotel lobby whistling My Darling Clementine, turns to see Clementine Carter waiting for the stage] Morning, Miss Carter.

Clementine Carter: Good Morning, Mr. Earp.

Wyatt Earp: You leaving?

Clementine Carter: Yes, I'm leaving for the east on a stage.

Wyatt Earp: East-bound stage don't leave 'til noon on Sunday.

[moment of silence]

Wyatt Earp: It's a mighty short visit.

Clementine Carter: Some people think I've overstayed my visit already.

Wyatt Earp: I don't know, ma'am. But if you ask me, I... I think you're givin' up too easy.

Clementine Carter: Marshal, if you ask me, I... I don't think you know too much about a woman's pride.

Wyatt Earp: No ma'am, maybe I don't.