Wil Oxley: Why did my father kill himself?
Marshal Frank Patch: I don't know, son.
Wil Oxley: Tell me! Tell me!
Marshal Frank Patch: A long time ago, a man was killed... shot in the back.
Wil Oxley: My father did it?
Marshal Frank Patch: Nobody knew for sure who did it.
Wil Oxley: You knew. Why didn't he hang?
Marshal Frank Patch: There was nothing to be gained by hanging. The dead man had a child - a son. Your father agreed to raise him as his own.


--Richard Widmark (as Marshal Frank Patch) in Death of a Gunfighter

Alec Stiles: What's the use of having a war if you don't learn from it?


--Richard Widmark (as Alec Stiles) in The Street with No Name

August 'Augie' Poole: [Last lines] Listen, honey, let's put this house on the market and move back to the city. The country's no place to bring up kids! Our kid's gonna' be born in Manhattan, in a normal, healthy atmosphere!


--Richard Widmark (as ) in The Tunnel of Love

August 'Augie' Poole: [Reading from the Real Estate section of the newspaper] Hey, listen to this: "Westport. Lovely old colonial manse. Recently renovated. With lovely gristmill and pond situated behind house in sun-drenched sylvan glen." That must be Bill Paxton's dump with the swamp in back.


--Richard Widmark (as ) in The Tunnel of Love

August 'Augie' Poole: [Rebuffing Dick's offer to hire him as a gag writer] I'm an artist, not a gag man.


--Richard Widmark (as ) in The Tunnel of Love

August 'Augie' Poole: [Unsuccessfully chasing a mouse] Wish I was back in the village, where the rats come out and fight.


--Richard Widmark (as ) in The Tunnel of Love

August 'Augie' Poole: But dear, we can't keep living on your grandmother's money... it's not that I'm too honorable, but it's running out.


--Richard Widmark (as ) in The Tunnel of Love

August 'Augie' Poole: You know, Miss Novick, uh, it's hard to think of you as a man of science.
Estelle Novick: I run into that all the time.
August 'Augie' Poole: I'll bet.
Estelle Novick: Last year I was with a team of anthropologists, and we made a study of sexual patterns in New Guinea.
August 'Augie' Poole: Yeah, I guess there's a lot of that going on there, too.


--Richard Widmark (as ) in The Tunnel of Love

Capt. Thomas Archer: Have you ever seen a Cheyenne?
Deborah Wright: Of course I have.
Capt. Thomas Archer: No you haven't! All you've ever seen is reservation Indians looking pitiful as fish out of water. But give them a chance and they're the greatest fighters in the world. Will you listen to me? It takes a blue coat to make a white man a soldier... but a Cheyenne is a soldier from the first slap on his butt. War is his life. He's fierce, he's smart... and he's meaner than sin!


--Richard Widmark (as Capt. Thomas Archer) in Cheyenne Autumn

Capt. Thomas Archer: Mr. Scott! I told you to cover that flank!
2nd Lt. Scott: I'm sorry, sir.
Capt. Thomas Archer: From now on, you don't scratch until I itch! Is that clear?


--Richard Widmark (as Capt. Thomas Archer) in Cheyenne Autumn