Tector Crites (Jackson gang Quotes in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)

Lily Langtry: [Lily notices her portrait behind the bar] Is that a bullet hole through my heart?

Tector Crites (Jackson gang: Yes it is, ma'am. They was wild men in those days.

Lily Langtry: Who did it?

Tector Crites (Jackson gang: Snake River Rufus Krile did that, I believe.

Lily Langtry: What became of him?

Tector Crites (Jackson gang: Judge shot him. Dead. Dead, dead. Then he fined him for some other crimes. And then later we hanged him.

Lily Langtry: Most appropriate.

Judge Roy Bean: [upon reading an item in the New York Times] I am... disturbed by the news this morning.

Tector Crites (Jackson gang: What is it, Judge?

Judge Roy Bean: I am crestfallen...

Tector Crites (Jackson gang: Crestfallen?

Judge Roy Bean: Crestfallen by the... report that Miss Lily, in a playful mood at a royal outing, slipped a frog down the back of His Highness, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. It was a moment of frivolity, you understand.

Tector Crites (Jackson gang: She slipped a frog down this prince's neck?

Judge Roy Bean: Anyway, the Prince was ruffled by the incident... and disfavored Miss Lily for it.

Tector Crites (Jackson gang: I suppose he would.

Judge Roy Bean: "Suppose he would"? I ought to go over there and hang the son of a bitch! I would, too, except I got too much respect for the royal family.

Tector Crites (Jackson gang: [voice-over] There is nothing worse than a harlot turned respectable. A reformed anything is bad enough, but a reformed harlot is the direct wrath of the Devil. Seems that those who have spent time giving pleasure for profit are all the more zealous when it comes to dealing out misery.

Tector Crites (Jackson gang: [voice-over] Looking back, we had, in the person of Teddy Roosevelt, the finest President in the history of this country. He had the spirit and determination that matched the times and the land. Then the women got the vote, and everything went to hell. While our boys was overseas fighting the Kaiser, the women got Prohibition put in. Drinking and gambling and whoring were declared unlawful. All those things which come natural to men became crimes.

Tector Crites (Jackson gang: The Watch Bear moved right into the household. The Judge and him and Maria Elena were inseparable like. The three of them used to go picnicking together.

Judge Roy Bean: By the power vested in me through God and the great and honorable State of Texas, I hereby proclaim you to be Marshals of the court of the county of greater Vinegarroon. For Texas and Miss Lily!

Bart Jackson, Nick the Grub (Jackson gang, Whorehouse Lucky Jim (Jackson gang, Tector Crites (Jackson gang, Fermel Parlee (Jackson gang: For Texas and Miss Lily!

Tector Crites (Jackson gang: Here ye, here ye. Court of Vinegarroon is in session. There'll be no drinkin'. Judge Roy Bean preceding.

Judge Roy Bean: All of this has come to past because it is the duty of the righteous, which is us, to hang the wicked whenever we can. So, that a man can say truly that *God* has appointed a judge upon the earth. That is how it is - and the way it will be. Amen.

Nick the Grub (Jackson gang, Whorehouse Lucky Jim (Jackson gang, Fermel Parlee (Jackson gang, Tector Crites (Jackson gang, Bart Jackson, Maria Elena: Amen.

Judge Roy Bean: Bar is open!

Tector Crites (Jackson gang: He even sent riders to the railhead to bring back The New York Times so he could follow the exploits of Miss Langtry, the Jersey Lily, voice as sweet as that of nightingale.