Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Swindler (1964)

John Dehner: Straw Coleman

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Quotes 

• Straw Coleman : When's the eastbound due?

  Jess Carmody : Give or take a day or so, I'd say about sundown.

• Straw Coleman : Horses, women, I never could pick 'em right.

• Gil Favor : Mm.

  [in the negative] 

  Straw Coleman : Perceptive man. You know a fabrication when you hear one.

  Jim Quince : Yeah, it sort of comes out like a lie.

  Straw Coleman : Precisely, I told a lie because you expected to hear one. Human nature, gentlemen, as predictable as sunrise and

  [he looks around and, at his rear, he fixes on a stony-faced Wishbone in a long pause] 

  Straw Coleman : sunset.

• Jim Quince : Y'know, even with those bracelets, you're the best-dressed horse thief I ever saw.

  Straw Coleman : Now I'm sure my tailor would appreciate what you have to say about my clothes.

• Straw Coleman : Y'know it's funny. The night air like this, the whole sky full of stars for a ceiling, and Mother Nature for a blanket. And here you are, just sitting and staring at nothing. If I didn't know you any better, George, I'd say you have the look of a man with a problem.

  Wishbone : Look again. A man can live with anything.

  Straw Coleman : Even New Orleans?

• Wishbone : Oh? You know her?

  Straw Coleman : Not as well as I'd like to. No, she keeps us worshipping her from a respectable distance.

  Wishbone : Oh, that must be because she's never met a real Tennessee timber wolf. All I need's an introduction.

• Wishbone : It's like my Daddy always said, takes a pretty strong hand to top one lady but a ten buggy prayer meeting to put a lid on full.

  Straw Coleman : This Daddy of yours, does he give lessons on the side?

  Wishbone : Well, I'll see if that can be arranged after our little appointment.

  Straw Coleman : Four Queens!

• Straw Coleman : Easy money, bright lights. Beautiful women. Those were the days.

  Wishbone : It coulda been.

  Straw Coleman : Yeah, you've got something there, friend. I could have been a millionaire but for the right cards at the right time. And you could've had the biggest cattle ranch in all of Texas. That's our trouble. We have to live with what we could have beens.

• Straw Coleman : Pots and pans, he's a bean-slinger on a cattle drive. That's all the ranch he ever found. I think it's time you went back to your rolling cookstove, friend. You've served your purpose.

• Straw Coleman : You know, looking at you, it's hard to believe you were the man I used to know. Back then you had a bounce in your step and a sparkle in your eye. NewOrleans. You fresh off the boat, a chip on your shoulder, a pocketful of money. Remember?

  [And George Washington Wishbone recalls the lively can can girls at the River CitySalon]