Clio Dulaine: Won't you come in?
Colonel Clint Maroon: [Thinking he's been propositioned] Hey, uh, what kind of game is this anyway?
[She seems bewildered]
Colonel Clint Maroon: Now, look, Honey. I was born in Texas, but it wasn't yesterday.


--Gary Cooper (as Colonel Clint Maroon) in Saratoga Trunk

Sgt. Snow: Never exactly doubted you, sir, and that raw deal they gave you at your court-martial gave us a pain in the collar!
Maj. Alex 'Lex' Kearney: Where do you suppose it gave me a pain?


--Gary Cooper (as ) in Springfield Rifle

Tony: Hey, why don't you get a haircut?
Wild Bill Hickok: Short hair makes the Indians mad, and they're mad enough already.


--Gary Cooper (as Wild Bill Hickok) in The Plainsman

Trampas: You're liable to talk yourself into a heap of trouble, my friend.
The Virginian: Since when was I your friend, Trampas?


--Gary Cooper (as The Virginian) in The Virginian

Claude: We're gonna kill you, Link. That's a promise!
Link Jones: You sound a little shaky, Claude. Are you nervous?


--Gary Cooper (as Link Jones) in Man of the West

John Lattimer: I'm not armed, Mr. Hickok, I'm not armed!
Wild Bill Hickok: I'll give you three minutes to fix that. I'll be waiting outside.
John Lattimer: I'm just leaving town.
Wild Bill Hickok: You're not leaving town unless dead men can walk.


--Gary Cooper (as Wild Bill Hickok) in The Plainsman

Alice: How can you go on talking so quietly with your head in a ditch?
White Knight: What does it matter where my body happens to be? My mind goes on working all the same. In fact, I once invented a new pudding during the meat course.
Alice: In time to have it cooked for the next course, hmmm? That was quick work!
White Knight: Well, not the next course. In fact, I don't believe that pudding even was cooked.
Alice: What did you mean it to be made of?
White Knight: Well it began with blotting paper.
Alice: That wouldn't be very nice, I'm afraid.
White Knight: Not very nice alone, but imagine how good it would be mixed with other things such as gunpowder and sealing wax.
[He sighs]


--Gary Cooper (as White Knight) in Alice in Wonderland

[repeated line]
Jerry Day: Who do you love?


--Gary Cooper (as Jerry Day) in Now and Forever

Louise "Babe" Bennett: [Taking Mr. Deeds to see Grant's Tomb] To most people, it's an awful let-down... To most people, it's a washout.
Longfellow Deeds: Well, that depends on what they see.
Louise "Babe" Bennett: Now what do you see?
Longfellow Deeds: Me? Oh I see a small Ohio farm boy becoming a great soldier. I see thousands of marching men. I see General Lee with a broken heart surrendering. And I can see the beginning of a new nation, like Abraham Lincoln said. And I can see that Ohio boy being inaugurated as President. Things like that can only happen in a country like America.


--Gary Cooper (as Longfellow Deeds) in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Ellsworth Toohey: There's the building that should have been yours. There are buildings going up all over the city which are great chances refused and given to incompetent fools. You're walking the streets while they're doing the work that you love but cannot obtain. This city is closed to you. It is I who have done it! Don't you want to know my motive?
Howard Roark: No!
Ellsworth Toohey: I'm fighting you and shall fight you in every way I can.
Howard Roark: You're free to do what you please!
Ellsworth Toohey: Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me in any words you wish.
Howard Roark: But I don't think of you!
[Roark walks away and Toohey's head slumps down]


--Gary Cooper (as Howard Roark) in The Fountainhead