Other Titles • O Brother, Where Art Thou? • To the White Sea (1999)
Quotes from O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
1
Pete: Do not seek the treasure!
(39 votes)
2
Ulysses Everett McGill: You ever been with a woman? Delmar O'Donnell: I gotta get the family farm back before I start worrying about that.
(28 votes)
3
Ulysses Everett McGill: I'll tell you what I am - I'm the damn paterfamilias! You can't marry him!
(29 votes)
4
Pomade Vendor: I can get the part from Bristol. It'll take two weeks, here's your pomade. Ulysses Everett McGill: Two weeks? That don't do me no good. Pomade Vendor: Nearest Ford auto man's Bristol. Ulysses Everett McGill: Hold on, I don't want this pomade. I want Dapper Dan. Pomade Vendor: I don't carry Dapper Dan, I carry Fop. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, I don't want Fop, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man! Pomade Vendor: Watch your language, young feller, this is a public market. Now if you want Dapper Dan, I can order it for you, have it in a couple of weeks. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!
(28 votes)
5
Ulysses Everett McGill: Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?
(22 votes)
6
George Nelson: Cows! I hate cows worse than coppers! [fires his Tommy gun at them] Delmar O'Donnell: Oh, George... not the livestock.
(13 votes)
7
Pappy O'Daniel: I'll press your flesh, you dimwitted sumbitch! You don't tell your pappy how to court the electorate. We ain't one-at-a-timin' here. We're MASS communicating!
(5 votes)
8
Big Dan Teague: Thank you boys for throwin' in that fricassee. I'm a man of large appetite, and even with lunch under my belt, I was feelin' a mite peckish. Ulysses Everett McGill: It's our pleasure, Big Dan.
(3 votes)
9
Ulysses Everett McGill: You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers.
(2 votes)
10
[Repeated line] Ulysses Everett McGill: Damn! We're in a tight spot!
(2 votes)
11
Pete: The Preacher said it absolved us. Ulysses Everett McGill: For him, not for the law. I'm surprised at you, Pete, I gave you credit for more brains than Delmar. Delmar O'Donnell: But they was witnesses that seen us redeemed. Ulysses Everett McGill: That's not the issue Delmar. Even if that did put you square with the Lord, the State of Mississippi's a little more hard-nosed.
(1 vote)
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Pete: I've always wondered, what's the devil look like? Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork. Tommy Johnson: Oh, no. No, sir. He's white, as white as you folks, with empty eyes and a big hollow voice. He likes to travel around with a mean old hound. That's right.
(1 vote)
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Ulysses Everett McGill: Me an' the old lady are gonna pick up the pieces and retie the knot, mixaphorically speaking.
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Pete: Wait a minute. Who elected you leader of this outfit? Ulysses Everett McGill: Well Pete, I figured it should be the one with the capacity for abstract thought. But if that ain't the consensus view, then hell, let's put it to a vote. Pete: Suits me. I'm voting for yours truly. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well I'm voting for yours truly too. [Everett and Pete look at Delmar for the deciding vote] Delmar O'Donnell: Okay... I'm with you fellas.
15
Tommy Johnson: I had to be up at that there crossroads last midnight, to sell my soul to the devil. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain't it a small world, spiritually speaking. Pete and Delmar just been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only one that remains unaffiliated.
16
Ulysses Everett McGill: Why are you telling our gals that I was hit by a train? Penny Wharvey McGill: Lots of respectable people have been hit by trains. Judge Hobbie over in Cookville was hit by a train. What was I gonna tell them, that you got sent to the penal farm and I divorced you from shame? Ulysses Everett McGill: Uh, I take your point. But it does put me in a damn awkward position, vis-a-vis my progeny.
17
Pete: You miserable little snake! You stole from my kin! Ulysses Everett McGill: Who was fixin' to betray us. Pete: You didn't know that at the time. Ulysses Everett McGill: So I borrowed it until I did know. Pete: That don't make no sense! Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.
18
Penny Wharvey McGill: Vernon here's got a job. Vernon's got prospects. He's bona fide. What are you?
19
Delmar O'Donnell: Them syreens did this to Pete. They loved him up and turned him into a horny toad.
20
Pete: Since we been followin' your lead, we ain't got nothing but trouble.
21
Pete: Well hell, it ain't square one! Ain't nobody gonna pick up three filthy, unshaved hitch-hikers, and one of them a know-it-all that can't keep his trap shut. Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment. But I would like to address your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the goddamn field or... hell! Take at look at Delmar here as your paradigm of hope. Delmar O'Donnell: Yeah, look at me.
22
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, it didn't look like a two-horse town, but try finding a decent hair jelly.
23
Delmar O'Donnell: Friend? Some of your foldin' money is come unstowed.
24
Delmar O'Donnell: I'm gonna visit those foreclosing son-of-a-guns at the Indianola Savings & Loan, slap that money on the barrelhead and buy back the family farm. You ain't no kind of man if you ain't got land.
25
George Nelson: Jesus saves, George Nelson withdraws!
26
Delmar O'Donnell: You work for the railroad, Grampa? Blind Seer: I work for no man. Delmar O'Donnell: Got a name, do you? Blind Seer: I have no name. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, that right there may be the reason you've had difficulty findin' gainful employment. You see, in the mart of competitive commerce...
27
Delmar O'Donnell: We thought you was a toad! Pete: What? Delmar O'Donnell: [leaning in, speaking slower] We thought you was a toad!
28
Lund: Now, what can I do you for Mr. French? French: How can I lay a hold of them Soggy Bottom Boys? Lund: Soggy Bottom? I don't recitely recollect them. French: They cut a record in here a few days ago, was an old-timey harmony thing with a guitar accom... accomp... Lund: Oh myeah myeah myeah myeah I remember them. They was colored fellas I believe. French: Uh huh. Lund: Yessah, they're a fine bunch a boys. They sang in the yonder can and skeedadled. French: Well that record is goin' through the goddamned roof. They playin' it as far away as Mobile. Lund: Naw? French: Whole damn state's goin' apey. Lund: Well it was a powerful air. French: Hot damn, we gotta find them boys and sign 'em to a big fat contract. Hells Bells, Mr. Lund, if we don't the goddamned competition will. Lund: Ohhhh mercy yes we got to beat that competition.
29
Ulysses Everett McGill: The treasure is still there boys, believe me. Delmar O'Donnell: But how'd he know about the treasure? Ulysses Everett McGill: I don't know Delmar. The blind are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of sight, even to the point of developing paranormal psychic powers. Now, clearly seeing into the future would fall into neatly into that category; its not so surprising then that an organism deprived of its earthly vision... Pete: He said we wouldn't get get it. He said we wouldn't get the treasure we seek on account of our ob-stac-les. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well what the hell does he know, he's just an ignorant old man?
30
Blind Seer: You seek a great fortune, you three who are now in chains. You will find a fortune, though it will not be the one you seek. But first... first you must travel a long and difficult road, a road fraught with peril. Mm-hmm. You shall see thangs, wonderful to tell. You shall see a... a cow... on the roof of a cotton house, ha. And, oh, so many startlements. I cannot tell you how long this road shall be, but fear not the obstacles in your path, for fate has vouchsafed your reward. Though the road may wind, yea, your hearts grow weary, still shall ye follow them, even unto your salvation.
31
Homer Stokes: The color guard is colored!
32
Washington Hogwallop: Mrs. Hogwallop up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T.
33
Ulysses Everett McGill: I was not hit by a train. Damnit, I am the paterfamilias!
34
Delmar O'Donnell: Gopher, Everett?
35
Pappy O'Daniel: Shake a leg Junior! Thank God your mammy died givin' birth. If she'd have seen you, she'd have died o' shame.
36
Delmar O'Donnell: They... took... his... heart!
37
Ulysses Everett McGill: [Upon being startled awake] Mmmm. How's my hair?
38
Ulysses Everett McGill: I detect, like me, you're endowed with the gift of gab.
39
Big Dan Teague: You don't say much my friend, but when you do it's to the point, and I salute you for it.
40
Ulysses Everett McGill: I am the only daddy you got! I'm the damn paterfamilias! Wharvey Gal: But you ain't bona fide!
41
Ulysses Everett McGill: A woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man.
42
Ulysses Everett McGill: Tommy, what you ridin' there? Tommy Johnson: Uh... Roll top desk!
43
Delmar O'Donnell: where's the happy little tire swing?
44
Washington Hogwallop: I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday. I think it's startin' to turn.
45
Penny Wharvey McGill: The only good thing you ever did for the gals was get hit by that train!
46
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, you lying... unconstant... succubus! Vernon T. Waldrip: Whoa, whoa, whoa! You can't swear at my fiancé! Ulysses Everett McGill: Oh, yeah? Well, you can't marry my wife!
47
Ulysses Everett McGill: I'm not sure that's Pete. Delmar O'Donnell: Of course it's Pete! Look at him!... We gotta find some kind of wizard to change him back.
48
Delmar O'Donnell: Care for some gopher? Ulysses Everett McGill: No thank you, Delmar. One third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without bedding it down. Delmar O'Donnell: Oh, you can have the whole thing. Me and Pete already had one apiece. We ran across a whole... gopher village.
49
Pete: My pa always said "Never trust a Hogwallop!"
50
Pappy's Staff: The reason he's pullin' our pants down. Pappy's Staff: Gonna paddle a little behind. Pappy's Staff: Ain't gonna paddle it - gonna kick it, real hard. Pappy's Staff: No, I believe he's gonna paddle it. Pappy's Staff: I don't believe that's a proper characterization. Pappy's Staff: Well, that's how I'd characterize it. Pappy's Staff: I believe it's more of a kickin' sitcheyation.
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