Victor McLaglen credited as playing...
Top Sgt. Quincannon
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: [on their upcoming retirement] The army will never be the same when we retire, sir.
- Captain Nathan Brittles: The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change, but the army knows no seasons.
- [Brittles knows Quincannon has been drinking on duty]
- Captain Nathan Brittles: You've got a breath on you like a hot mince pie!
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: Ah, Captain darlin', as you well know I took "the pledge" after Chapultepec.
- Captain Nathan Brittles: And Bull Run, and Gettysburg, and Shiloh. And St. Patrick's Day. And the Fourth of July! Beats me where you hide the stuff.
- Sgt. Hochbauer: [enters the bar with a crew to arrest Quincannon] You're under arrest, Quincannon.
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: By whose orders?
- Sgt. Hochbauer: By order of Capt. Brittles. Are you coming peaceably?
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: Laddie, I've never gone any place peaceably in me life.
- [puts down his drink and slugs Sgt. Hochbauer]
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: Now men, I want youse all to pay attention to what I got to say. We'll have women going with us on this trip, so I want you to watch them words. Watch them words!
- Trooper: Watch them grammar!
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: Who said that?
- [walks up and down ranks]
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: Whose dog is this? Whose dog is this?
- [pats dog on the head]
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: Nice dog; Irish setter.
- [Quincannon is celebrating his upcoming retirement]
- Sgt. Hochbauer: You're out of uniform, Quincannon.
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: Oh, I am, am I? Well, I'm in the proper uniform... the uniform of a retired gentleman.
- [enters the bar]
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: [about to cross a river] Can you swim, Dickie me boy?
- Dickie, small boy: No.
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: Well, I'm the best swimmer in the world. Once I swam the English Channel... with an anvil on me chest.
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: [speaking to Capt. Brittles about Lt. Cohill and Olivia Dandridge who have been bickering on the trail] They'll make a fine, boisterous couple when they're married, Captain!
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: [to the boy Dickey...] It's time for me to take me medicine.
- Top Sergeant Quincannon: [Drinks from his small whiskey flask, glances at the boy, then makes a pained face...] It tastes horrible!