Howard Wendell: Porteous

Quotes 

• Arvid Lacey : You gonna shoot yourself some Comanches?

  Porteous : I can't understand why the Comanches are attacking this house.

  Arvid Lacey : Well, I'll tell you. We stole some of their horses and killed some of their braves doing it.

  Porteous : Yes, I thought it might be something like that.

  Arvid Lacey : Now, Preacher, don't you get proud.

  Porteous : I'll not use this gun against Indians.

  Arvid Lacey : What do you want it for?

  Porteous : For afterwards, Mr Lacey, for afterwards.

• Porteous : Life should be simpler but St Augustine wrote: It is not every bad man that will ever be good. But there will be no good man that who is not at one time bad.