12 Roy Bean Quotes

Roy Bean quotes

1. Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.

2. You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty. Time will pass and seasons will come and go. Spring with its wavin' green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin' flowers on every hill and in every dale. Then sultry Summer, with her shimmerin' heat-waves on the baked horizon. And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun. And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. But you won't be here to see any of 'em; not by a damn sight, because it's the order of this court that you be took to the nearest tree and hanged by the neck til you're dead, dead, dead, you olive-colored son of a billy goat.

1. Don't interfere with something that ain't bothering' you none.

2. And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

3. You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

4. Hang 'em first, try 'em later.

5. You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped.

6. Time will pass and seasons will come and go.

7. And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.

8. I find this corpse guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and I fine it $40.

9. I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.

10. A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the flies and coyotes