381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

I hate rude behavior in a man,′ he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. ‘I won’t tolerate it.’ He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call.

Don’t be trying to give back pain for pain... You can’t get even measures in business like this.

It’s really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I’ll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.

He had not stayed, but when he had gone, he hadn’t fought, either. He had done nothing but ride twice over the same stretch of prairie, while death had come to both camps.

When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt. “Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it,” he added, a little solemnly.

In the vastness of the desert, each reduction of the group made them realize how small they were, how puny, in relation to the space they were traveling through.

I won’t tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.

Trees had been so common that it was a shock to ride out on the plains and discover that there was a part of earth where there weren’t any.