The Great Silence Quotes

Loco You were wise to put your trust in the law, boy.

Loco Well, Petes. What times we live in... when a black's worth as much as a white man!

Pauline Once, my husband told me of this man. He avenges our wrongs. And the bounty killers sure do tremble when he appears. They call him "Silence." Because wherever he goes, the silence of death follows.

Loco If anybody draws first... it's gotta be you.

Pauline My husband was a good man. They forced him to steal, to give me a decent life. Because... Pollicut could put a price on his head. He thought if I became his mistress... well, he thought wrong.

Pauline I didn't get the money... but I still want my revenge. I don't want you to work for nothing. There is one who'd give me the money, right away... if I wanted to... do what he wants. Well... what he wants in exchange is too high a price for me to pay... but I'm willing to pay you. Now, before, after, whenever.

Loco Calm down, friends. Since when are wolves afraid of wolves?

Ending Title Card The massacres of 1898, year of the Great Blizzard, finally brought forth fierce public condemnation of the bounthy killers, who, under the guise of false legality, made violent murder a profitable way of life. For many years there was a clapboard sign at Snow Hill which carried this legend: MEN'S BOOTS CAN KICK UP THE DUST OF THIS PLACE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, BUT NOTHING MAN CAN EVER DO WILL WIPE OUT THE BLOOD STAINS OF THE POOR FOLK WHO FELL HERE.

Pauline There wasn't time! I'm sorry. I tried... but that Loco had captured em. He'd taken them all as hostages to the saloon. He wants to shoot it out with you, just you and him. He said to tell you... if you don't, he'll kill every one of them! But... you can't, Silence! You're hurt real bad. Besides... I'm certain it's a trap. You can't trust him. Don't get involved. You're just one man. Please don't go. Let's run for it. There must be some place we can go. They're gonna kill em either way, they're all gonna die! I don't want you dead. I love you.

Loco I want the mute to come shoot it out with me. Just him an me. Tell him if he don't... I'm gonna shoot every one of these people here. My friends won't interfere. So it's my life against every one of theirs.

Loco There's a bounty on each one. We'll come back and collect em later... all according to the law.

Loco And now, boy... I've been waitin a long time for an amusin day like this.