Brant Royle: Goodbye, Carpetbagger. If it means anything to you now, the worst mistake I made was you.


--Gary Cooper (as Brant Royle) in Bright Leaf

Brant Royle: Still my girl?
Sonia Kovac: Don't bet on it! You think all yuh have to do is snap your finger at me. All these years and not even a letter!
Brant Royle: Nothing to write about.
Sonia Kovac: I could have been dead.
Brant Royle: Then what good would a letter be?


--Gary Cooper (as Brant Royle) in Bright Leaf

Capt. Quincy Wyatt: An interesting thing about the way the Seminoles bury their warriors. The sit 'em up and put war paint on 'em, set a bowl of fresh food alongside of 'em and then stick their favorite weapon in their hands and then they cover 'em up. With a great chief like that over yonder, they throw in the first newborn child to be born after he died.
Lt. Richard Tufts: Why do they do a thing like that for?
Capt. Quincy Wyatt: Well, they believe when a man dies, his spirit leaves the body and enters that of the first newborn. And in regarding a chief that high like that, they don't want the spirit to be passed on down to somebody that ain't fit to carry it.


--Gary Cooper (as ) in Distant Drums

Capt. Quincy Wyatt: You just didn't didn't come over here to pass the time of day. W-what's troublin' your mind?
Judy Beckett: Well, since you ask, I'm a little curious to know if I'm gonna get out of here alive.
Capt. Quincy Wyatt: Why should you know more than anyone else?
Judy Beckett: Because I've got a lot to do. I've made too many plans for too long a time to have them all end up in a swamp.
Capt. Quincy Wyatt: Well, all I can tell you to ease your mind is that I don't intend to commit suicide.


--Gary Cooper (as ) in Distant Drums

Capt. Quincy Wyatt: You know, you can't go through life trying to get even. You know, you can't carry a grudge forever.


--Gary Cooper (as ) in Distant Drums

Clint Belmet: I'm asking you a question and the answer can't be maybe. I'm asking you straight out - will you marry? Yes or no?
Felice: Oui, Monsieur!
Clint Belmet: Huh?


--Gary Cooper (as ) in Fighting Caravans

Cole Harden: [to Bean] When I was a kid, I had a pet rattlesnake. I was fond of it, but I wouldn't turn my back on it.


--Gary Cooper (as Cole Harden) in The Westerner

Cole Harden: You get warrants in Fort Davis, don't you?
Judge Roy W. Bean: Yes, that's where they get 'em, but they don't know how to spell my name. It's been tried before.
Cole Harden: I'll get one. This time you'll get what's comin' to you, Judge.


--Gary Cooper (as Cole Harden) in The Westerner

Colonel Clint Maroon: I've seen lots of women, but I've never seen a woman like you.


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

Colonel Clint Maroon: Look, I got a temper too - stronger than horseradish.


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