Hud Bannon: You gonna let them shoot your cows out from under you on account of a schoolbook disease?

Hud Bannon: You're half native already. I've never seen you in a pair of shoes since you have work here.
Alma Brown: I wore'em once. I think to get married in. White satin pumps. I don't have'em anymore or the man either.

Homer Bannon: Hud, how'd a man like you come to be a son to me?

Homer Bannon: It don't take long to kill things, not like it takes to grow.

Homer Bannon: Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. You're just going to have to make up your own mind one day about what's right and wrong.

Homer Bannon: That's your solution for getting out of a tight? To pass bad beef on to my neighbors who wouldn't know what they was getting? Or maybe risk starting an epidemic in the entire country?
Hud Bannon: This country is run on epidemics, where you been? Price fixing, crooked TV shows, inflated expense accounts. How many honest men you know? Why you separate the saints from the sinners, you're lucky to wind up with Abraham Lincoln. Now I want out of this spread what I put into it, and I say let us dip our bread into some of that gravy while it is still hot.
Homer Bannon: You're an unprincipled young man Hud.
Hud Bannon: Don't let that worry you none. You got enough for both of us.

Homer Bannon: You don't care about people Hud. You don't give a damn about 'em. Oh, you got all that charm goin' for ya. And it makes the youngsters want to be like ya. That's the shame of it because you don't value anything. You don't respect nothing. You keep no check on your appetites at all. You live just for yourself. And that makes you not fit to live with.

[a cowboy has taken exception to Lon looking at his girlfriend]
Hud Bannon: Now wait a minute. You sure you didn't give him some encouragement? 'Cause I was sittin' way across the room and got a little encouraged watchin' you move around inside that dress.
Angry cowboy: Why, you...
Hud Bannon: Now I don't want to be hoggish. Lon, you want some of him?
[Hud sucker punches the cowboy]

[Hud has grabbed a rifle and shot at the buzzards]
Homer Bannon: Don't do that, Hud; they help keep the country clean. Besides, it's against the law.
Hud Bannon: Well, I've always thought the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. Sometimes I lean one way and sometimes I lean the other.

Hud Bannon: You know something Fantan? This world is so full of crap, a man's gonna get into it sooner or later whether he's careful or not.