John Wayne credited as playing...
Sean Thornton
- Michaleen Flynn: Well it's a nice, soft night, so I think I'll go and join me comrades and talk a little treason. G'night, Sean.
- Sean Thornton: G'night, Michaleen.
- Mary Kate Danaher: It's a bold one you are! Who gave you leave to be kissin' me?
- Sean Thornton: So you can talk!
- Mary Kate Danaher: Yes I can, I will and I do! And it's more than talk you'll be gettin' if you step a step closer to me!
- Sean Thornton: Don't worry - you've got a wallop!
- Mary Kate Danaher: You'll get over it, I'm thinkin'.
- Sean Thornton: Well, some things a man doesn't get over so easy.
- Mary Kate Danaher: Like what, supposin'?
- Sean Thornton: Like the sight of a girl coming through the fields with the sun on her hair... kneeling in church with a face like a saint...
- Mary Kate Danaher: Saint indeed!
- Sean Thornton: ... and now coming to a man's house to clean it for him.
- Mary Kate Danaher: But... that was just my way of bein' a good Christian act.
- Sean Thornton: I know it was, Mary Kate Danaher. And it was nice of you.
- Mary Kate Danaher: Not at all.
- Sean Thornton: There'll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate... except those in your own mercenary little heart!
- "Red Will" Danaher: I'll count three, and if you're not out of the house by then, I'll loose the dogs on you.
- Sean Thornton: If you say "three," mister, you'll never hear the man count "ten."
- "Red Will" Danaher: Mind you, I'm fresh as a daisy!
- Sean Thornton: You look more like a Black-Eyed Susan to me.
- Sean Thornton: If anybody had told me six months ago that today I'd be in a graveyard in Innisfree with a girl like you that I'm just about to kiss, I'd have told 'em...
- Mary Kate Danaher: Oh, but the kisses are a long way off yet!
- Sean Thornton: Huh?
- Mary Kate Danaher: Well, we just started a-courtin', and next month, we, we start the walkin' out, and the month after that there'll be the threshin' parties, and the month after that...
- Sean Thornton: Nope.
- Mary Kate Danaher: Well, maybe we won't have to wait that month...
- Sean Thornton: Yup.
- Mary Kate Danaher: ... or for the threshin' parties...
- Sean Thornton: Nope.
- Mary Kate Danaher: ... or for the walkin' out together...
- Sean Thornton: No.
- Mary Kate Danaher: ... and so much the worse for you, Sean Thornton, for I feel the same way about it myself!
- [They kiss. Thunder rolls]
- Sean Thornton: I don't get this. Why do we have to get you along? Back in the States, I'd drive up, honk the horn, the gal'd come runnin'...
- Mary Kate Danaher: Come a-runnin'? I'm no woman to be honked at and come a-runnin'!
- Michaleen Flynn: America - ha! Prohibition! You see that over there? That's the ancestral home of ancient Flynns. It was taken from us by... by... by the Druids!
- [stops the cart]
- Michaleen Flynn: Quietest couple I ever heard. We'll get nowhere at this rate. Off with ya!
- [Sean tries to help Mary Kate down]
- Michaleen Flynn: She's a fine healthy girl - no patty-fingers if ya please!
- Mary Kate Danaher: I have a fearful temper. You might as well know about it now instead of findin' out about it later. We Danahers are a fightin' people.
- Sean Thornton: I can think of a lot of things I'd rather do to one of the Danahers - Miss Danaher.
- Mary Kate Danaher: Shhh, Mr. Thornton! What will Mr. Flynn be thinkin'?
- Sean Thornton: [drunk] Woman-of-the-house! I have brought the brother home to supper!
- [Throws hat]
- Mary Kate Danaher: He is kindly welcome.
- "Red Will" Danaher: [also drunk] God bless all in this house...
- Mary Kate Danaher: Wipe your feet!
- "Red Will" Danaher: Thank you mum!
- "Red Will" Danaher: [after falling in a stream] Have ya had enough?
- Sean Thornton: No!
- "Red Will" Danaher: Well then, give a man a hand.
- Sean Thornton: Can't you get it through your head that I don't care about your money?
- Mary Kate Danaher: But he does, and that's the whole point!
- Michaleen Flynn: None 'o that now, none 'o that. It's a bold sinful man y'are Sean Thornton. And who taught you to be playin' patty-fingers in the Holy Water?
- Sean Thornton: Just bein' polite, is all.
- Sean Thornton: [During the big fight scene and after getting doused with water for the nth time] Thanks.
- Michaleen Flynn: Sean, this is Father Lonergan. Father, would you believe it? This is Sean Thornton, born right here in Innisfree, home from America.
- Sean Thornton: Hello, Father.
- Father Peter Lonergan: Ah yes, I knew your people, Sean. Your grandfather. He died in Australia... in a penal colony. And your father, he was a good man too.
- Squire 'Red' Will Danaher: Your widow, me sister... She couldve done a lot worse.
- Sean Thornton: True, true.
- Squire 'Red' Will Danaher: Poor woman.
- Sean Thornton: [Seeing Mary Kate Danaher in the distance] Hey, is that real? She couldn't be.
- Michaleen Flynn: Ah, nonsense, man. It's only a mirage brought on by your terrible thirst.
- "Red Will" Danaher: [responding to Sean Thornton's demand for payment] I'll pay ya... never!
- Sean Thornton: That breaks all bargains.
- [hurls Mary Kate towards Danaher]
- Sean Thornton: You can take your sister back. It's your custom, not mine! No fortune, no marriage! We call it quits!
- Mary Kate Danaher: [with shocked look] You'd do this to me? Your own wife! After, after what I...
- Sean Thornton: It's done!
- [crowd exchanges glances, begins to laugh slowly]
- "Red Will" Danaher: [begrudgingly takes money from wallet, throws it at Thornton's feet indignantly] There's your dirty money! Take it! Count it, ya spawn! And look... if ever I see that face of yours,
- [draws back fist]
- "Red Will" Danaher: I'll push this through it!