- Johnny Ringo: My fight's not with you, Holliday.
- Doc Holliday: I beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. "Play for Blood," remember?
- Johnny Ringo: Oh that. I was just foolin' about.
- Doc Holliday: I wasn't.
- Curly Bill: [takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table] Wyatt Earp, huh? I heard of you.
- Ike Clanton: Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. Law don't go around here. Savvy?
- Wyatt Earp: I'm retired.
- Curly Bill: Good. That's real good.
- Ike Clanton: Yeah, that's good, Mr. Law Dog, 'cause law just don't go around here.
- Wyatt Earp: I heard you the first time.
- [flips a card]
- Wyatt Earp: Winner to the King, five hundred dollars.
- Curly Bill: Shut up, Ike.
- Johnny Ringo: [Ringo steps up to Doc] And you must be Doc Holliday.
- Doc Holliday: That's the rumor.
- Johnny Ringo: You retired too?
- Doc Holliday: Not me. I'm in my prime.
- Johnny Ringo: Yeah, you look it.
- Doc Holliday: And you must be Ringo. Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darling? Should I hate him?
- Kate: You don't even know him.
- Doc Holliday: Yes, but there's just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of... me. No. I'm sure of it, I hate him.
- Wyatt Earp: [to Ringo] He's drunk.
- Doc Holliday: In vino veritas.
- ["In wine is truth" meaning: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind"]
- Johnny Ringo: Age quod agis.
- ["Do what you do" meaning: "Do what you do best"]
- Doc Holliday: Credat Judaeus apella, non ego.
- ["The Jew Apella may believe it, not I" meaning: "I don't believe drinking is what I do best."]
- Johnny Ringo: [pats his gun] Eventus stultorum magister.
- ["Events are the teachers of fools" meaning: "Fools have to learn by experience"]
- Doc Holliday: [gives a Cheshire cat smile] In pace requiescat.
- ["Rest in peace" meaning: "It's your funeral!"]
- Tombstone Marshal Fred White: Come on boys. We don't want any trouble in here. Not in any language.
- Doc Holliday: Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Now I really hate him.
- Doc Holliday: What did you ever want?
- Wyatt Earp: Just to live a normal life.
- Doc Holliday: There's no normal life, Wyatt, it's just life. Get on with it.
- Wyatt Earp: Don't know how.
- Doc Holliday: Sure you do. Say goodbye to me. Go grab that spirited actress and make her your own. Take that beauty from it, don't look back. Live every second. Live right on to the end. Live Wyatt. Live for me. Wyatt, if you were ever my friend - if ya ever had even the slightest of feelin' for me, leave now. Leave now... Please.
- Wyatt Earp: Thanks for always being there, Doc.
- Wyatt Earp: What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?
- Doc Holliday: A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.
- Wyatt Earp: What does he need?
- Doc Holliday: Revenge.
- Wyatt Earp: For what?
- Doc Holliday: Bein' born.
- Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Doc, you oughta be in bed, what the hell you doin this for anyway?
- Doc Holliday: Wyatt Earp is my friend.
- Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Hell, I got lots of friends.
- Doc Holliday: I don't.
- Doc Holliday: [to Johnny Ringo, after shooting him in a duel] You're no daisy! You're no daisy at all. Poor soul, you were just too high strung.
- Billy Clanton: Why, it's the drunk piano player. You're so drunk, you can't hit nothin'. In fact, you're probably seeing double.
- [Billy Clanton draws a knife]
- Doc Holliday: [takes out a second gun] I have two guns, one for each of ya.
- Wyatt Earp: [Tyler reaches for his gun] Go ahead, skin it! Skin that smokewagon and see what happens!
- Johnny Tyler: [stammers, scared] Listen, mister, I - I'm - I'm - I'm gettin' awful tired of your...
- Wyatt Earp: [slaps Tyler across the face, unafraid] I'm gettin' tired of your gas. Now jerk that pistol and go to work!
- Wyatt Earp: [slaps him harder, now completely steely-eyed] I said throw down, boy!
- Frank McLaury: [a mortally wounded McLaury is taking aim at Doc] I've got you now... you son of a bitch!
- Doc Holliday: [holds up arms] You're a daisy if you do!
- [Morgan shoots McLaury]
- Wyatt Earp: All right, Clanton... you called down the thunder, well now you've got it! You see that?
- [pulls open his coat, revealing a badge]
- Wyatt Earp: It says United States Marshal!
- Ike Clanton: [terrified, pleading] Wyatt, please, I...
- Wyatt Earp: [referring to Stilwell, laying dead] Take a good look at him, Ike... 'cause that's how you're gonna end up!
- [shoves Ike down roughly with his boot]
- Wyatt Earp: The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it!
- [lets Ike up to run for his life]
- Wyatt Earp: So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the law's comin'!
- [shouts]
- Wyatt Earp: You tell 'em I'M coming... and hell's coming with me, you hear?...
- [louder]
- Wyatt Earp: Hell's coming with me!
- Ike Clanton: What is that now? Twelve hands in a row? Holliday, son of a bitch, nobody's that lucky.
- Doc Holliday: Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Maybe poker's just not your game Ike. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!
- Billy Clanton: [as Doc Holliday is drunkenly playing a somber piece on the saloon piano, Clanton speaks, just as drunkenly] Is that "Old Dog Trey? Sounds like "Old Dog Trey."
- Doc Holliday: Pardon?
- Billy Clanton: Stephen Foster. "Oh, Susannah", "Camptown Races". Stephen stinking Foster.
- Doc Holliday: Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne.
- Billy Clanton: A which?
- Doc Holliday: You know, Frederic fucking Chopin.
- Doc Holliday: [taunting a card player who believes Holliday is cheating him] Why Ed does this mean we're not friends anymore? You know Ed, if I thought you weren't my friend... I just don't think I could bear it!
- [Wyatt Earp has just found out that the devil in a play was performed by a woman]
- Wyatt Earp: Well, I'll be damned.
- Doc Holliday: You may indeed, if you get lucky.
- Doc Holliday: It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.
- Wyatt Earp: Doc you're not a hypocrite, you just like to sound like one.
- Wyatt Earp: How many cards do you want?
- Doc Holliday: I don't want to play any more.
- Wyatt Earp: How many?
- Doc Holliday: Damn it, you're the most fallible, stubborn, self-deluded, bullheaded man I've ever known in my entire life.
- Wyatt Earp: I call.
- [looks at Doc's cards]
- Wyatt Earp: You win.
- Doc Holliday: You're the only human being in my entire life that ever gave me hope...
- Curly Bill: Hey Johnny, what did that Mexican mean by a sick horse is going to get us?
- Johnny Ringo: He was quoting the Bible, Revelations. "Behold the pale horse". The man who "sat on him was Death... and Hell followed with him".
- Johnny Ringo: [waiting by an oak tree for Wyatt Earp for a showdown, he believes the person approaching is Wyatt] Well,I didn't think ya had it in you.
- Doc Holliday: I'm your huckleberry.
- [Ringo is startled that it's Holliday and not Wyatt]
- Doc Holliday: Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.
- Johnny Ringo: Fight's not with you, Holliday.
- Doc Holliday: I'll beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood, remember?
- Johnny Ringo: I was just foolin' about.
- Doc Holliday: I wasn't. And this time...
- [opens his coat to reveal a U.S. Deputy Marshal Badge]
- Doc Holliday: ... it's legal.
- Johnny Ringo: All right, lunger. Let's do it.
- Doc Holliday: [they both start moving in circles slowly into position for a showdown, staring at each other without blinking] Say when.
- Doc Holliday: [they both draw but Holliday is a tad quicker and shoots Ringo in the head and Ringo struggles to stay standing and finally falls] Poor soul. You were just too high-strung.
- [Holliday places the badge on Ringo's corpse]
- Doc Holliday: [Holliday hears running footsteps and turns to see Wyatt Earp approaching] I'm afraid the strain was more than he could bear. Oh, I wasn't quite as sick as I made out.
- Wyatt Earp: Good God.
- [knells to examine Ringo and picks up the badge]
- Doc Holliday: My hypocrisy goes only so far.
- Wyatt Earp: All right. Let's finish it.
- Doc Holliday: Indeed, sir. The last charge of Wyatt Earp and his immortals
- Wyatt Earp: From now on I see a red sash, I kill the man wearing it. So run you cur. And tell the other curs the law is coming. You tell 'em I'm coming! And Hell's coming with me you hear! Hell's coming with me!
- Doc Holliday: Why Johnny Tyler! You madcap!
- Johnny Tyler: Doc?
- Doc Holliday: Where you goin' with that shotgun?
- Doc Holliday: [after killing Johnny Ringo] It would appear that the strain was more than he could bear.
- Texas Jack: Did you ever see anything like that before?
- Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Hell, I ain't never even heard of anything like that.
- [last lines]
- Narrator: The Red Sash Cowboy Gang was broken forever. Ike Clanton was shot and killed two years later during an attempted robbery. Mattie died of a drug overdose shortly after she left Tombstone. Virgil and Allie Earp moved to California where Virgil, despite the use of only one arm, became a town sheriff. Wyatt and Josephine embarked on a series of adventures. Up or down, thin or flush, in 47 years they never left each other's side. Wyatt Earp died in Los Angeles in 1929. Among the pallbearers at his funeral, were early western stars William S. Hart and Tom Mix. Tom Mix wept.
- Virgil Earp: What the hell kinda town is this?
- Morgan Earp: Nice scenery.
- Doc Holliday: Well, an enchanted moment.
- Josephine Marcus: Interesting little scene. I wonder who that tall drink of water is.
- Mr. Fabian: My dear, you've set your gaze upon the quintessential frontier type. Note the lean silhouette... eyes closed by the sun, though sharp as a hawk. He's got the look of both predator and prey.
- Josephine Marcus: I want one.
- Mr. Fabian: Happy hunting.
- Johnny Ringo: [Ringo has taken Holliday up on his offer to 'finish the game'] All right, 'lunger'. Let's do it.
- Doc Holliday: Say when.
- Florentino: [attempting to translate what the Mexican priest said] He talkin loco... crazy... somethin' about a sick horse comin' to get us.
- Johnny Ringo: That's not what he said, you ignorant wretch. Your Spanish is worse than your English.
- Wyatt Earp: [to Ike Clanton] You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?
- [Morgan is fatally wounded in a gunfight]
- Morgan Earp: Remember what I said about people seein' a bright light before they die? It ain't true. I can't see a damn thing.
- Wyatt Earp: I just want you to know it's over between us.
- Curly Bill: Well... bye.
- Johnny Ringo: Smell that, Bill? Smells like someone died.
- Frank Stillwell: [Stillwell and Ike are planning to ambush the Earps at the train station] That's Virgil there with the women.
- Ike Clanton: He's mine, understand?
- Frank Stillwell: [Cocking his rifle] Hey Mattie! Where's Wyatt?
- Wyatt Earp: Right behind you, Stillwell.
- [Shoots Stillwell as he turns around]
- Wyatt Earp: [to Josephine Marcus] I have nothing left, nothing to give you, I have no pride, no dignity, no money, I don't even know how we'll make a living, but I promise I'll love you the rest of your life
- [they kiss]
- Wyatt Earp: [Before the shootout at the OK Corral] It's not your problem, Doc, you don't have to mix up in this.
- Doc Holliday: [Offeneded] That is a hell of a thing for you to say to me.
- Wyatt Earp: How we feelin' today, Doc?
- Doc Holliday: I'm dying. How are you?
- Wyatt Earp: Pretty much the same.
- [while watching a play in which Faust sells his soul to the Devil]
- Curly Bill: You know what I'd do? I'd take that deal 'n' crawfish, then drill that ol' Devil in the ass. What about you Juanito, what would you do?
- Johnny Ringo: I already did it.
- Wyatt Earp: In all that time workin' those cow towns, I was only ever mixed up in one shootin', just one! But a man lost his life and I took it! You don't know how that feels, and believe me boy, you don't ever want to know. Not ever!
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