Discover the top 30 unforgettable quotes from the iconic movie “Unforgiven” (1992). Relive the drama, action, and powerful dialogue that made this Western classic a timeless favorite.
Unforgiven, shot by Clint Eastwood as if to prove that the Western genre is still alive, is considered one of the most important films of the 90s.
Unforgiven Quotes
1- “I’m coming out. Any man I see out there, I’m gonna shoot him. Any sum’bitch takes a shot at me, I’m not only gonna kill him, but I’m gonna kill his wife, all his friends, and burn his damn house down.” [after the shootout in the saloon] – William Munny, ‘Unforgiven’.
2- “Any man don’t wanna get killed better clear on out the back.” [before the final shootout in the saloon] – William Munny, ‘Unforgiven’.
3- “Claudia, she straightened me up, cleared me of drinkin’ whiskey and all. Just ’cause we’re goin’ on this killing, that doesn’t mean I’m gonna go back to bein’ the way I was. I just need the money, get a new start for them youngsters. Ned, you remember that drover I shot through the mouth and his teeth came out the back of his head? I think about him now and again. He didn’t do anything to deserve to get shot, at least nothin’ I could remember when I sobered up.” [talking to Ned]– William Munny, ‘Unforgiven’.
4- “You better bury Ned right!… Better not cut up, nor otherwise harm no whores… or I’ll come back and kill every one of you sons of bitches.” [last lines]– William Munny, ‘Unforgiven’.
5- “What I said the other day, you looking like me, that ain’t true. You ain’t ugly like me, it’s just that we both have got scars.” [talking to Delilah]– William Munny, ‘Unforgiven’.
6- “I suppose you know, Bob, if I ever see you again I’m just going to startshooting and figure it was self-defense.” [sending English Bob on his way after beating and jailing him] – Little Bill Daggett, ‘Unforgiven’.
7- “Uncle Pete says you was the meanest goddamn son-of-a-bitch alive, and if I ever wanted a partner for a killin’, you were the worst one. Meaning the best, on account as your’re as cold as the snow and you don’t have no weak nerve nor fear.” [talking to Bill Munny] – The “Schofield Kid”, ‘Unforgiven’.
8- “You know, he don’t have a straight angle in that whole god-damned porch, or the whole house for that matter. He is the worst damn carpenter.” [about the house the Sheriff’s building] – Clyde Ledbetter, ‘Unforgiven’.
9- “A plague on you. A plague on the whole stinking lot of ya, without morals or laws. And all you whores got no laws. You got no honor. It’s no wonder you all emigrated to America, because they wouldn’t have you in England. You’re a lot of savages, that’s what you all are. A bunch of bloody savages. A plague on you. I’ll be back.” – English Bob, ‘Unforgiven’.
10- “He said how you was really William Munny out of Missouri… and Bill said: “Same William Munny that dynamited the RockIsland and Pacific in ’69 killin’ women and children an’ all?”. And Ned says you done a lot worse than that, said you was more cold blooded than William Bonney or Clay Alisson or the James Brothers and how if he hurt Ned again you was gonna come an’ kill him like you killed a U.S. Marshall in ’73.” [telling Bill Munny about Ned’s interrogation] – Little Sue, ‘Unforgiven’.
11- “- Little Bill Daggett: Being a good shot, being quick with a pistol, that don’t do no harm, but it don’t mean much next to being cool-headed. A man who will keep his head and not get rattled under fire, like as not, he’ll kill ya.
– W.W. Beauchamp: But if the other fella is quicker, and fires first…
– Little Bill Daggett: Then he’ll be hurrying, and he’ll miss. Look here… that’s about as fast as I can draw, and aim, and hit anything more than ten feet away… ‘less it’s a barn.” –‘Unforgiven’.
12- “- Ned Logan: What did these fellas do? Cheat at cards? Steal some strays? Spit on a rich fella? What?
– Bill Munny: No, they cut up a woman.
– Ned Logan: What?
– Will Munny: Yeah, they cut up her face, cut her eyes out, cut her fingers off, cut her tits, everything but her cunty, I suppose.
– Ned Logan: I’ll be dogg-Golly, I guess they got it comin’. ‘Course, you know, Will, if Claudia was alive you wouldn’t be doin’ this.” [Bill is trying to convince Ned to hunt down the perpetrator with him] –‘Unforgiven’.
13- “- The “Schofield Kid”: You go on, keep it. I’m never gonna use it again. I won’t kill nobody no more. I ain’t like you, Will… go on, keep it. All of it. It’s yours.
– Bill Munny: What about your spectacles and fancy clothes?
– The “Schofield Kid”: I guess I’d rather be blind and ragged than dead.
– Will Munny: You don’t have to worry, Kid. I ain’t gonna kill you. You’re the only friend I got.” [referring firstly to his gun then to the money] –‘Unforgiven’.
14- “- Little Bill Daggett: You’d be William Munny out of Missouri. Killer of women and children.
– Bill Munny: That’s right. I’ve killed women and children. I’ve killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I’m here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.” [confronting Little Bill after the torture and killing of Ned] –‘Unforgiven’.
15- “- Ned Logan: I sure do miss my bed.
– Bill Munny: You said that last night.
– Ned Logan: No, last night I said I missed my wife, tonight I just miss my dadgum bed.”- ‘Unforgiven’.
16- ““- Little Bill Daggett: Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!
– Bill Munny: Well, he should have armed himself if he’s going to decorate his saloon with my friend.” –‘Unforgiven’.
17- “- The “Schofield Kid”: It don’t seem real… how he ain’t gonna never breathe again, ever… how he’s dead. And the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger.
– Bill Munny: It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.
– The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.
– Bill Munny: We all got it coming, kid.” [after killing a man for the first time]-‘Unforgiven’.
18- “- Delilah Fitzgerald: Are you still goin’ to kill those men?
– Bill Munny: I reckon so. The money’s still available, ain’t it?
– Delilah Fitzgerald: Yeah. Your two friends have been taking advances on the money.
– Bill Munny: What?
– Delilah Fitzgerald: You know, free ones. Alice and Silky been givin’ them free ones.” [as the prostitutes asked the group of cowboys to avenge Delilah who’s been disfigured]-‘Unforgiven’.
19- “- Little Bill Daggett: I don’t deserve this… to die like this. I was building a house.
– Bill Munny: Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.
– Little Bill Daggett: I’ll see you in hell, William Munny.
– Bill Munny: Yeah.” [finishing an already injuried Little Bill]-‘Unforgiven’.
20- “- Delilah Fitzgerald: Would you like a free one?
– Bill Munny: I reckon not.
– Delilah Fitzgerald: I didn’t mean with me. Alice and Silky would be glad to give you one.
– Bill Munny: I meant I didn’t want a free one with Alice or Silky. Because of my wife back home. I reckon if I was to want a free one, it would be with you.” [as the prostitutes asked the group of cowboys to avenge Delilah who’s been disfigured]-‘Unforgiven’.
21- “- Little Bill Daggett: First off, Corky never carried two guns. Though he should have.
– W.W. Beauchamp: No, no, he was, he was called “Two-Gun Corcoran”.
– Little Bill Daggett: Yeah well, a lot of folks did call him “Two-Gun” but that wasn’t because he was sporting two pistols. That was because he had a dick that was so big it was longer than the barrel of that Walker Colt that he carried. And the only “insultin’ to a lady” he ever did was to stick that thing of his into this French lady that Bob here was kind of sweet on.” [Little Bill tells the real story of English Bob’s gunfight] –‘Unforgiven’.
22- “- The “Schofield Kid”: You know how I said I shot five men? It weren’t true. That Mexican that come at me with a knife, I just busted his leg with a shovel. I didn’t kill him or nothing, neither.
– Bill Munny: Well, you sure killed the hell outta that fella today.” –‘Unforgiven’.
23- ” -Little Bill Daggett: You just shot an unarmed man.
-Bill Munny: He should have armed himself if he’s gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.”
24- “All right, I’m coming out. Any man I see out there, I’m gonna shoot him. Any sumb***h takes a shot at me, I’m not only gonna kill him, but I’m gonna kill his wife, all his friends, and burn his damn house down.” –Bill Munny, ‘Unforgiven’.
25- “Just because we let them smelly fools ride us like horses don’t mean we gotta let ’em brand us like horses. Maybe we ain’t nothing but w***es but we, by god, we ain’t horses.” –Strawberry Alice, ‘Unforgiven’.
26- “-Bill Munny: You boys better move away.
-Little Bill Daggett: All right, gentlemen. He’s got one barrel left. When he fires that, take out your pistols, and shoot him down like the mangy scoundrel he is!” –‘Unforgiven’.
27- “-Davey: I’m dyin’ boys. Jesus, I’m so thirsty.
-Bill Munny: Give him a drink of water, goddamn it. Will you give him a drink of water, for Christ’s sake? We ain’t gonna shoot” –‘Unforgiven’.
28- “-The Schofield Kid: Like I was saying, you don’t look no meaner-than-hell, cold-blooded, damn killer.
-Will Munny: Maybe I ain’t.
-The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, Uncle Pete says you was the meanest goddamn son-of-a-b***h alive, and if I ever wanted a partner for a killin’, you were the worst one. Meaning the best, on account as your’s as cold as the snow and you don’t have no weak nerve nor fear.
-Will Munny: Pete said that, huh?
-The Schofield Kid: Yeah, yeah he did. I’m a damn killer myself. ‘Cept, uh, I ain’t killed as many as you because of my youth.” –‘Unforgiven’.
29- “-Little Bill Daggett: It’s been a long time, Bob. You run out of Chinamen?
-English Bob: Little Bill, well I thought you was, well I thought that you were dead. I see you’ve shaved your chin whiskers off.
-Little Bill Daggett: I was tasting the soup two hours after I ate it.
-English Bob: Well, actually, what I heard was that you fell off your horse, drunk of course, and that you broke your bloody neck.
-Little Bill Daggett: I heard that one myself, Bob. Hell, I even thought I was dead ’til I found out it was just that I was in Nebraska. –‘Unforgiven’.
30- “Look son, being a good shot, being quick with a pistol, that don’t do no harm, but it don’t mean much next to being cool-headed. A man who will keep his head and not get rattled under fire, like as not, he’ll kill ya. It ain’t so easy to shoot a man anyhow, especially if the son-of-a-b*tch is shootin’ back at you.” –Little Bill Daggett,
