General Sandy Smithers Quotes in The Hateful Eight (2015)

Sheriff Chris Mannix: May I sit down, sir?

General Sandy Smithers: According to the Yankees, it's a free country.

General Sandy Smithers: I don't know that nigger. But I know he's a nigger. And that's all I need to know.

Sweet Dave: [about having Bob watching him play chess with General Smithers] I like whipping this old man's ass in front of an audience.

General Sandy Smithers: You ain't whipping shit!

Sheriff Chris Mannix: [as Warren approaches General Smithers] Warren, goddamn it, you leave that old man alone.

Major Marquis Warren: Stand down, you son of a bitch. I shared a battlefield with this man.

Major Marquis Warren: [to Smithers] Or would you deny me that too?

General Sandy Smithers: I suppose you were there.

Major Marquis Warren: May I join you?

General Sandy Smithers: Yes, you may.

Jody: Now do you have any reason why you would want to interfere with me saving my sister from a hangman's rope?

General Sandy Smithers: No.

Jody: You don't?

General Sandy Smithers: No I don't.

Jody: You sure you don't? I mean we did just kill Minnie and Sweet Dave. And you and Sweet Dave looked mighty chummy over there.

General Sandy Smithers: I just met these people, I don't give a damn about them! Or you, or your sister. Or any other son of a bitch in Wyoming for that matter.

Jody: [menacingly] That is a GOOD answer, old man.

Major Marquis Warren: General Sanford Smithers? Battle of Baton Rouge?

General Sandy Smithers: [to Mannix] Inform the nigger in the cavalry officer's uniform that I had a division of Confederates under my command... in Baton Rouge!

Sheriff Chris Mannix: [stands up] MAJOR NIGGER! General Smithers wishes me to inform you...

Major Marquis Warren: [raises hand] I heard him, hillbilly! Inform this old cracker that I was in Baton Rouge also... on the other side.

Sheriff Chris Mannix: Oh, that's interesting.

[to Smithers]

Sheriff Chris Mannix: General Smithers, he said he was also in Baton Rouge on the other side...

General Sandy Smithers: Captain Mannix! Tell the nigger that I don't acknowledge niggers in northern uniform!

Major Marquis Warren: [to Smithers] You captured a whole colored command that day... but not one colored trooper made it to camp, did they?

General Sandy Smithers: We didn't have the time or the food...

[pause]

General Sandy Smithers: Nor the inclination to care for nothern horses and LEAST OF ALL, NORTHERN NIGGERS!

[pause]

General Sandy Smithers: SO WE SHOT 'EM WHERE THEY STOOD!

[Warren suddenly drops his coffee cup and goes for the gun in his holster]

Sheriff Chris Mannix: [pointing Major Marquis Warren] Do you know who that nigger is?

General Sandy Smithers: I don't know who that nigger is, but I know he is a nigger, and that is all I need to know.