No 4. A touching line, uttered by Gus as he lay dying. ![]() What we didn’t put up with back then was doddlin’ service, and as you can see, we still don’t put up with it.”Īs they rode away, Woodrow tells Gus he’s lucky he didn’t get thrown in jail and Gus says, “Ain’t much of a crime, whackin’ a surly bartender.” If you care to turn around, you will see what we looked like when we was younger and the people around her wanted to make us senators. Gus explains: “Besides a whiskey, I think we will require a little respect. The bartender, upon insulting Gus and Call, gets his nose broken when Gus slams his face into the oak bar. No 5. The San Antonio bar scene has several great lines together, so I decided to count them as one quote. You ride with the outlaw, you die with the outlaw. Jake pleads his case but Gus has little sympathy. ![]() No 6. This quote punctuates the scene when Jake Spoon must be hanged along with the murdering horse thieves he has thrown in with. Gus says: “Woodrow, you just don’t ever get the point – ‘It’s not dyin’ I’m talkin’ about, it’s livin’.” No 7. Gus gets exasperated with Woodrow because Woodrow, to Gus’s way of thinking, is being dense. Gus says: “Yesterday’s gone, we can’t get it back.” But he does assure him that if he ever runs into Blue Duck again, he will kill him for him. July is naturally distraught, blaming himself, saying he should have stayed with them. No 8. Gus finds July Johnson burying his son, and Jenny and Rosco. No 9. Not long before Gus goes guns blazing into Blue Duck’s camp to save Lorie, he says, “They don’t know it, but the wrath of the Lord is about to descend on ‘em.” He says, “I won’t say I did and I won’t say I didn’t, but I will say that a man who wouldn’t cheat for a poke don’t want one bad enough.” No 10. Right after Gus has cut the cards with Lorie and she accuses him of cheating. No 11. When the boys seem a little shocked by Gus’, shall we say, manly appetites, he says: “What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Woodrow says: “I guess this’ll teach me to be careful about what I promise in the future.” ![]() Woodrow has just buried Gus and puts up the grave marker made of the famous Hat Creek Cattle Company sign. I do have data on my side, based on feedback from a popular Facebook page devoted to “Lonesome Dove.” From that page I have been able to tabulate the most popular quotes or excerpts from the miniseries: I know it is a delicate business it is holy ground.īut the list I’m about to share is not just my opinion. I cannot resist the challenge of making a list. But I have never let lack of wisdom stop me. If I were wise, I would just say any of a hundred quotes could be someone’s number one, and leave it at that. Since I am, like many Texans, an amateur expert on “ Lonesome Dove ,” people often ask me what I figure are the most loved quotes from the miniseries. Spoiler alert! In case you’ve been under a rock in Ogallala for the last three decades, this story contains spoilers for “Lonesome Dove.”
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