Thomas Mitchell credited as playing...
Doc Josiah Boone
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Come busting in here - you'd think we were being attacked! You can find another wife.
- Chris: Sure I can find another wife. But she take my rifle and my horse. Oh, I'll never sell her. I love her so much. I beat her with a whip and she never get tired.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Your wife?
- Chris: No, my horse. I can find another wife easy, yes, but not a horse like that!
- [last lines]
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization.
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Yeah.
- [laughs]
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Doc, I'll buy you a drink.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Just one.
- [the stagecoach occupants vote on whether to continue without a cavalry escort]
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: You, Doc?
- Dr. Josiah Boone: I'm not only a philosopher, sir, I'm a fatalist. Somewhere, sometime, there may be the right bullet or the wrong bottle waiting for Josiah Boone. Why worry when or where?
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Yes or no?
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Having that philosophy, sir, I've always courted danger. During the late war - when I had the honor to serve the Union under our great president, Abraham Lincoln... and General Phil Sheridan - well, sir, I fought mid shot and shell and cannon roar...
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Do you wanna go back or not?
- Dr. Josiah Boone: No! I want another drink.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: I'll take that shotgun, Luke.
- Luke Plummer: You'll take it in the belly if you don't get out of my way.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: I'll have you indicted for murder if you step outside with that shotgun.
- Luke Plummer: [throws the shotgun on the bar] We'll attend to you later.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: [to bartender after Plummer leaves] Don't ever let me do that again.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Seems to me I knew your family, Henry. Didn't I fix your arm once when you, oh, bumped off a horse?
- Ringo Kid: Are you Doc Boone?
- Dr. Josiah Boone: I certainly am. Ah, let's see... I'd just been honorably discharged from the Union Army after the War of the Rebellion.
- Hatfield: You mean the War for the Southern Confederacy, sir.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: I mean nothing of the kind, sir!
- Ringo Kid: That was my kid brother broke his arm. You did a good job, Doc, even if you was drunk.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Thank you, son. Professional compliments are always pleasing. What happened to that boy whose arm I fixed?
- Ringo Kid: He was murdered.
- Hatfield: Put out that cigar. You're annoying this lady.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Excuse me, madame. Being so partial to the weed myself, I sometimes forget that it disagrees with others.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Well, now that the danger is past, Mr...
- Samuel Peacock: ...Peacock.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Ladies and gentlemen, since it's most unlikely we'll ever have the pleasure of meeting again socially, I'd like to propose a toast. Major, Gatewood, Ringo... to your health.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Jerry, I'll admit as one man to another that, economically, I haven't been of much value to you. But do you suppose you could put one on credit?
- Jerry (bartender): If talk was money, Doc, you'd be the best customer I got.
- Dallas: [the ladies of the Law and Order League are running Dallas out of town; Doc Boone is being thrown out by his landlady] Doc, haven't I any right to live? What have I done?
- Dr. Josiah Boone: We're the victims of a foul disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the Law and Order League are scouring out the dregs of the town. Come on. Be a proud, glorified dreg like me.
- Tonto Sheriff: You get goin' Doc. You're drunk.
- Boone's Landlady: Hmmph! Two of a kind! Just two of a kind.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: [Offering Dallas his arm, then making a reference to the French Revolution] Take my arm, Madame le Comtesse! The tumbrel awaits. To the guillotine!
- Hatfield: A gentleman doesn't smoke in the presence of a lady.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Three weeks ago I took a bullet out of a man who was shot by a gentleman. The bullet was in his back!
- Hatfield: You mean to insinuate...
- Ringo Kid: Sit down, mister. Doc don't mean no harm.
- The Ringo Kid: That was my kid brother that broke his arm. You did a good job, Doc, even if you were drunk.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Thank you, son. Professional compliments are always pleasing.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: [drunkenly to his hideous landlady upon eviction] Is this the face that wrecked 1000 ships and burned the towerless tops of Illium? Farewell, fair Helen.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: [drunkenly singing] My horse has gone, She has gone astray, With a son...
- Buck: Quiet, Doc! This is a serious matter, ain't it?
- Dr. Josiah Boone: My dear, Buck. If I have only one hour to live, I'm gonna enjoy myself.