Dobbs Quotes in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

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Dobbs Quotes:

  • Dobbs: You're sure he was trailin' you are ya?

    Bob Curtin: Absolutely.

    Dobbs: How come?

    Bob Curtin: Cuz there he is.

  • Dobbs: Conscience. What a thing. If you believe you got a conscience it'll pester you to death. But if you don't believe you got one, what could it do t'ya? Makes me sick, all this talking and fussing about nonsense.

  • Dobbs: [in one sentence] Do you believe that stuff the old man was saying the other night at the Oso Negro about gold changin' a man's soul so's he ain't the same sort of man as he was before findin' it?

  • Dobbs: Can you help a fellow American down on his luck?

  • Dobbs: Let's see, three times 35 - is a hundred and five. I'll bet you 105,000 dollars that you go to sleep before I do.

  • Mexican Bandit: We are the Federales... You know... The mounted police.

    Dobbs: If you're the police, where are your badges?

    Mexican Bandit: Badges?... We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!

  • Dobbs: Nobody puts one over on Fred C. Dobbs.

  • Dobbs: You two guys musta been born in a revival meeting.

  • [first lines]

    Dobbs: Say buddy, will you stake a fellow Am...

  • Dobbs: You know what I'm thinkin'. I'm thinkin' we ought to give up. Leave the whole outfit - everything behind and go back to civilization.

    Howard: What's that you say? Go back? Ha, ha. Well, tell my old grandmother! I've got two very elegant bedfellows who kick at the first drop of rain and hide in the closet when thunder rumbles. My, my, my, what great prospectors, two shoe clerks readin' a magazine about prospectin' for gold in the land of the midnight sun, south of the border, or west of the Rockies, ha, ha, ha...

    Dobbs: [Picking up a rock] Shut your trap! Shut up or I'll smash your head flat.

    Howard: Go ahead, go ahead, throw it. If you did, you'd never leave this wilderness alive. Without me, you two would die here more miserable than rats.

    Bob Curtin: [to Dobbs] Aw, leave him alone. Can't you see the old man's nuts?

    Howard: Let me tell you something, my two fine bedfellows, you're so dumb, there's nothin' to compare ya with, you're dumber than the dumbest jackass. Look at each other, will ya? Did you ever see anything like yourself for bein' dumb specimens. You're so dumb, you don't even see the riches you're treadin' on with your own feet. Yeah, don't expect to find nuggets of molten gold. It's rich but not that rich. And here ain't the place to dig. It comes from someplace further up. Up there, up there's where we've got to go. UP THERE!

  • Yossarian: Those bastards are trying to kill me.

    1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: No one is trying to kill you sweetheart. Now eat your dessert like a good boy.

    Yossarian: Oh yeah? Then why are they shooting at me Milo?

    Dobbs: They're shooting at everyone Yossarian.

    Yossarian: And what difference does that make?

    Dobbs: Look Yossarian, suppose, I mean just suppose everyone thought the same way you do.

    Yossarian: Then I'd be a damn fool to think any different.

  • Dobbs: [Over the radio] Help him! Help him!

    Yossarian: Help who?

    Dobbs: Help the bombardier!

    Yossarian: I'm the bombardier, I'm all right.

    Dobbs: Then help HIM, help HIM!

  • Yossarian: If he raises the number of missions again, I swear to God, I'll help you kill him.

    Dobbs: Really?

    Yossarian: I swear.

    Dobbs: Well, that's very reasonable of you.

  • School Nurse: Now can you tell me what came between McGoogles and your fears? Is it something from your past or somebody?

    Dobbs: [shouting] Keeble!

    Principal Jindraike: Keeble.

    Troy McGinty: ...Keeble.

  • Dobbs: [to Max when they are about to bully him] You know how doctors say, "This isn't gonna hurt a bit"? Well, I'm not a doctor, and neither is McGinty here.

    Troy McGinty: He's right.

    [looks straight to Max closely]

    Troy McGinty: I'm not a doctor.

    Dobbs: [Shaking his hands like he's rapping] Yeeah!

  • Dobbs: Keeble! Caught your act at the assembly. Looks like you can use some help with managing your portfolio.

    [he takes Max's money]

    Max: Hey, that's my lunch money!

    Dobbs: And you have it all in cash. Kid, let me hold this for a while and I'll set you up with a nice mutual fund.

    Mrs. Talia: What's going on here?

    Megan: He's taking Max's lunch money!

    Mrs. Talia: Is this true, Mr. Dobbs?

    Dobbs: No. I'm just spreading some investment wisdom. Speaking of which, how did Biomorph Systems work out for you?

    Mrs. Talia: Best money I ever spent. By the way, what do you think of Handspring?

    Dobbs: Handspring? It's moving today. I'd say buy.

  • Dobbs: I was more than mildly insulted. Just because I'm a mortician she had the audacity to insinuate that I might have knowledge of the black arts!

  • Dobbs: You can try to kill me, Dan. But you can't. You can only make me dead.

  • Dan Gillis: How do you do it? How did you bring them back to life?

    Dobbs: Call it black magic. Call it a medical breakthrough. I'll take my secret to the grave.

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