Joanne Linville: Lydia Montgomery

Quotes 

• Tom Starett : Your husband was found guilty, Mrs. Montgomery.

  Lydia Montgomery : If anyone should know about guilt, I'd say you'd be the man, judge.

• Lydia Montgomery : Were you in love with your husband, Mrs. Starett?

  Marian Starett : Very much.

  Lydia Montgomery : Then perhaps you can understand how I feel. My husband was an extraordinary man. Was yours?

  Marian Starett : I like to think so. At least, he was to me.

  Lydia Montgomery : I suppose to every woman in love the man is extraordinary. We women really aren't such complicated creatures, are we? When you come right down to it, you and I are really very much alike.

• Shane : Your husband was a Westerner, Mrs. Montgomery. Out of habit, he kept five rounds in his gun, with the hammer always down on the empty chamber.

  Lydia Montgomery : You know this?

  Shane : Anyone who has ever worn a gun on his hip knows it.

• Lydia Montgomery : You were too drunk to care!

  Tom Starett : Yes, that was my part of the flaw. That's why I quit the bench. I couldn't face up to sending any more men to their deaths. One murder doesn't justify another, even if the law pretends that it does. Even if society demands it. Revenge is wrong... That's part of it, Shane. I sentenced a man - an innocent man - to be hanged.