Miss Jones Quotes in Bite the Bullet (1975)
Miss Jones Quotes:
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Miss Jones: I've been around a lot of cowhands, one way or another. A cowboy dresses from the top down. The first thing on is his hat. And he undresses from the bottom up. Last thing off... hat. Oh, and another thing - to be a cowpuncher, that don't mean you actually got to go around punching them, you know.
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Carbo: All this hardware... I ain't never been in a gunfight.
Miss Jones: Killing a man don't prove you're a man.
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Miss Jones: Rosie, how many times you been married?
Rosie: Eleven. Ten without a preacher or license.
Miss Jones: Well, did you love any of 'em?
Rosie: Oh, all of 'em! Every one of 'em! The good and the bad. It's a shame to waste all that prime beef on a guy serving three to five in a prison. Do you keep in touch?
Miss Jones: Oh, he's kind of a lousy letter writer.
Rosie: A lousy bank robber, too.
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Miss Jones: For a family who don't know a jackass from a mule, you sure know a lot about the West.
Jack Parker: We don't have to know about it. We, ah, we own it.
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[Matthews ignores Carbo's challenge for a gunfight]
Mister: You done right. A boy lookin' for a reputation is the most dangerous thing alive.
Norfolk: It certainly wasn't worth dyin' for.
Miss Jones: What is?
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Reporter: To the West!
Norfolk: Awesome and inspiring.
Jack Parker: I don't see what's so inspiring about a flash flood or a blizzard, or a landslide or a sandstorm or a dust storm or any sudden disaster, personal or financial. Today the desert will broil you royal, tomorrow the mountain will freeze you stiff. That's your West: violent, treacherous. Every prairie dog hole is a gold mine, every molehill is a mountain, every creek is a river and everybody you meet is a liar.
Miss Jones: When you call me that smile, stranger.
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Miss Jones: The people some people marry.
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Miss Jones: What's your name?
J. Pierpont Finch: Finch, F-I-N-C-H. J. Pierpont Finch.
Miss Jones: Well, why haven't I seen you before?
J. Pierpont Finch: Well, ma'am, I'm not supposed to deliver the executive mail. That's his job. Bud Frump, F-R-U-M-P.
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Miss Jones: Your wife is on line 2, Mr. Biggley.
J. B. Biggley: Tell her I'm busy, tell her I'm in a meeting, tell her I'm out, damnit, put her on!
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Miss Jones: He was a nice boy, but somebody's head has to roll.
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Dr. Wells: Miss Jones, I shall need your assistance.
Miss Jones: [eyeing Wells' dinner companion] Yes, well at your age I'm not surprised.
Dr. Wells: With an autopsy!
Miss Jones: Oh, well that's different.
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Dr. Wells: Miss Jones, allow me to introduce Professor Alexander Saxton. He dabbles in fossils and bones.
Miss Jones: Glad to meet you, Professor.
Professor Saxton: How do you do?
Dr. Wells: Miss Jones has been assisting me. Bacteriology, excellent technician.
Miss Jones: [laughs] For a woman, he means.
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[about the condition of a dead man's brain]
Miss Jones: Smooth as a baby's bottom!
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