Voor de strop geboren (1947)

Irene Rich: Mrs. Worth

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Quotes 

• Quirt Evans : Funny thing about pancakes: I lose my appetite for 'em after the first couple a dozen.

  Mrs. Worth : Aw, they weren't very good this morning... too heavy.

• [Quirt has awakened after two days recovery] 

  Mrs. Worth : Oh, if he's hungry he's going to be alright.

  Quirt Evans : Thanks a lot for housing me.

  Mrs. Worth : You're welcome. Smoked sausage and eggs?

  Quirt Evans : Sounds great.

  Mrs. Worth : Two eggs... or would you like three?

  Quirt Evans : I'd like six!

  Mrs. Worth : [laughs]  You shall have them.

• [Dr. Mangrum and Mrs. Worth are discussing the recuperating Quirt Evans] 

  Dr. Mangrum : Once, when I was studying medicine in Europe, I had a friend - an artist. He drew portraits of people and made them resemble the animals they reminded him of. He'd have drawn this man as a coiled cobra.

  Mrs. Worth : Ho ho ho, Doctor, you're analogy is terribly imperfect and your naturalism faulty. Cobras don't coil.

• [after Laredo visits the ranch and pays Quirt for the land, Quirt prepares to leave and puts some of the money in a can for the Worths] 

  Mrs. Worth : Oh no, Quirt, no!

  Quirt Evans : What kind of a boarder do you think I am?

  Thomas Worth : You can't do that. We'd tend to any wounded human... and not for pay.

  Quirt Evans : You don't believe in force - so you can't force me to take it back.

  Mrs. Worth : I'm afraid you're outwitted, Thomas.

  Quirt Evans : How long have I been here?

  Thomas Worth : Almost three weeks.

  Quirt Evans : Kinda hate to get goin'.

  Mrs. Worth : Oh, but you can't... your leg... you're in no condition to travel.

  Quirt Evans : Don't worry. Your cooking's got me grained up and ready for market. Adios amigos.

• [Carson's preparing to leave the Worth farm, with two baskets of food] 

  Frederick Carson : I just get a gnawin' hankerin' after good pies and truck like that.

  Mrs. Worth : Oh, Freddy Carson!

  Frederick Carson : Yes'm.

  Mrs. Worth : I want you to have some of these.

  [puts some rolls in one of the baskets] 

  Mrs. Worth : They're awful good with coffee in the mornin'.

  Frederick Carson : Makes me wanna go home and shoot my Chinee cook.

  Mrs. Worth : You just come back for more any time you like; there're always plenty.

• Thomas Worth : Does it take two to feed a few chickens, Mother?

  Mrs. Worth : At times, Tomas, at times... remember?

• Mrs. Worth : What harm can there be in a little donut? Unless one eats so many of them that they explode, which is likely to happen to you, young man.

  Quirt Evans : Well, there's worse ways of checking out.

• Mrs. Worth : Penny!

  Penelope Worth : I think Father wants to give thanks.

  Frederick Carson : Oh, he already thanked me.

  Penelope Worth : I know. I think he wants to thank someone else.