True Grit/Quotes

From the 1969 version:

Most people around here have heard of Rooster Cogburn, and some people live to regret it.

—Auctioneer

Lawyer: Now, according to your story, C.C. Wharton grabbed a shotgun and killed Marshal Potter. Then he turned the gun on you, you say, and you shot him. Then, you say, the father swung his axe, and you shot him, too. The defendant tried to run, you say, and you also shot him.

Rooster: Just winged him, or he wouldn't be here to pay up!

—Rooster Cogburn's testimony

Col. G. Stonehill: Cogburn? And how did you light upon that greasy vagabond? That man is a notorius thumper! He is not a man I would care to share a bed with, nor would I!

From the 2010 version:

[Cogburn and Mattie, aware that someone is following them and thinking it is LaBoeuf sit in wait. Eventually, a strange man dressed in a bearskin, with a wild beard, leading a packhorse with a corpse on it, slowly approaches them and comes to a stop. The three sit looking at each other for several seconds.]

—Cogburn: You are not LaBoeuf!

Ned Pepper: What is your intention?
Cogburn: I aim to kill you in one minute, or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience.