History Awesome / TheOutlawJoseyWales

-->'''Lone Watie''': I notice when you get to dislikin' someone they ain't around for long neither.

''(Josey pulls a Sharp's rifle with a early telescopic sight on it from his horse)''\\

* "Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is." - This pre-battle quote is pure awesome.

* Reportedly [[Creator/ClintEastwood Clint's]] favorite own film, it features this gem, a CMOA in an otherwise seriously depressing movie:

'''Josey''': Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin' in this territory called [[CrowningMomentOfFunny the Missouri boat ride]].\\

** Was placed in the National Registry of Films in 1996.

* "Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy"

* Josey Wales escaping from a posse of union soldiers on a ferry:

** OrsonWelles compared it favorably to the works of earlier greats like Creator/HowardHawks and Creator/JohnFord.

** There are arguments over whether this film or Film/{{Unforgiven}} is [[Creator/ClintEastwood Eastwood]]'s MagnumOpus.

* [[PreAssKickingOneLiner "You gonna pull them pistols or whistle Dixie?"]]

** OrsonWelles compared it favorably to the works of earlier greats like HowardHawks and Creator/JohnFord.

** OrsonWelles compared it favorably to the works of earlier greats like HowardHawks and JohnFord.

* Reportedly [[ClintEastwood Clint's]] favorite own film, it features this gem, a CMOA in an otherwise seriously depressing movie:

** There are arguments over whether this film or Film/{{Unforgiven}} is Eastwood's MagnumOpus.

-->'''Josey''' (bemoaning his fate as a loner): When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long.

** There are arguments over whether this film or {{Unforgiven}} is Eastwood's MagnumOpus.

'''Ten Bears''': It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. ''It shall be life''.

''(shoots the rope hauling the ferry across the river)''

** There [[YourMileageMayVary are arguments over whether this film]] or {{Unforgiven}} is Eastwood's MagnumOpus.

-->'''Jamie''': They comin'.\\
''(Josey pulls a Sharp's rifle with a early telescopic sight on it from his horse)''\\
'''Carpetbagger''': Do you really think you can shoot all those men down before they shoot you? No, no, Mr. Josey Wales; there is such a thing in this country called justice!\\
'''Josey''': Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin' in this territory called [[CrowningMomentOfFunny the Missouri boat ride]].\\

[Josey pulls a Sharp's rifle with a early telescopic sight on it from his horse]\\
-->'''Carpetbagger''': Do you really think you can shoot all those men down before they shoot you? No, no, Mr. Josey Wales; there is such a thing in this country called justice!\\
-->'''Josey''': Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin' in this territory called [[CrowningMomentOfFunny the Missouri boat ride]].\\
[shoots the rope hauling the ferry across the river]

* Josie's words of life and death

-->"'Jamie"': They comin'.
[Josie pulls a Sharp's rifle with a early telescopic sight on it from his horse]
-->"'Carpetbagger"': Do you really think you can shoot all those men down before they shoot you? No, no, Mr. Josey Wales; there is such a thing in this country called justice!
-->"'Josey Wales"': Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin' in this territory called the Missouri boat ride.