The Last Kind Words Saloon Quotes

“Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“No half measures,” he muttered several times. It was his personal motto; he intended to have it latinised and put on a crest.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“I don’t claim to know much: cards, fucking, and dentistry about covers it,” Doc said.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“And it’s the only whorehouse in town. They say if you can sprout up twelve inches of dick you get to fuck free.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“I pride myself on being able to put up with a lot,” Nellie said. “But bagpipers are pretty much my limit.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“Such is the life and death of a good cowboy.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“He had hit with his closed fist and knocked her sprawling. It took talent to make Wyatt lose his temper, but Jessie knew just how to do it, and did it mainly just to have something happening. Pouring whiskey from bottle to glass was boring work.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“It was a quiet day in Tombstone.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“Billy the Kid shooting all those people over in New Mexico has made gunfighting real popular with the public.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp,” Cody said.
“You evidently don’t know Jessie,” Wyatt said. “If she’s in one of her tempers she’d put a hyena to flight ...”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“He had ridden his horse into the saloon on a dare from a whore – his practice was always to accept dares; it spiced life up a little.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“He decided not to shoot the tall stranger, mainly because he admired his soft felt hat.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“She wasn’t going to succeed in newspapers if she didn’t ask the big questions when she could.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“She sighed. Men were a pain.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“Afterwards the members of the little war party felt fine. Torturing whites was a splendid way to spend the afternoon.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“There was said to be measuring of penises at the Orchid, but was it true and if so what did that mean?”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

“How about a kiss?”
“Are you man enough to try?” she asked.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon