Best lines

Younger Bear: I have a wife. And four horses.

Jack Crabb: I have a horse... and four wives.

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The very last Czarnian
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"Still trying to outsmart me, aren't you, Mule Skinner? You want me to think that you don't want me to go down there, but the subtle truth is you really DON'T want me to go down there! Well! Are you reassured now, Major?"

The war is not meant to be won... it is meant to be continuous.

Trying to find the best line in Little Big Man is like trying to choose the best performance in Tombstone, but here are a few...and it's been a while since I've seen this so they might not be verbatim.

"The notion of lying with three young women in their prime kinda shrunk me like a spider on a hot stove."

"They didn't call her Digging Bear for nothin'."

"They didn't know I was a woman! That explains why they didn't (sigh) rape me right off."

"He had become a heemonay (sic, I'm sure), for which there is no English word." (Actually this isn't true, since he's describing a hermaphodite. The honored position of such a person in the Cheyenne, as opposed to that of the Western (as well as most other) cultures is probably accurate - there is no equivalent.

"I always felt sorry for that poor Pawnee. I didn't mean to kill him, I only meant to distract him."

"She was callin' him a devil and yellin' for help, but I didn't get the impression she wanted anybody to save her."

I think one of the best lines is when Wild Bill Hickok is lying mortally wounded on the floor of the saloon and he says to Jack, "Hoss, you know that matter we discussed... the widow... Don't tell my wife. That'd really get me in trouble."

Alardyce T. Merriwether: "The two-legged creature will believe anything--the more preposterous the better. Whales speak French at the bottom of the sea; Pygmies mate with elephants in darkest Africa; the horses of Arabia have silver wings. I have sold all those propositions!"

"...bathed with dirt, dried with water, & so on...." (Jack remembering Younger Horse as a Contrary.)

The final dialogue of the film (after the magic didn't work) made me laugh:

Old Lodge Skins:
Let's go back to the tepee and eat, my son. My newest Snake wife cooks dog very well.

Jack:
All right, Grandfather.

Old Lodge Skins:
She also has a very soft skin.....the only trouble with Snake women
is they copulate with horses,......which makes them strange to me.
She says she doesn't. That's why I call her "Doesn't Like Horses."
But, of course, she's lying.

Jack:
Of course, Grandfather.

"It is true there is a thing that do not understand. (pause) There is a pain between my ears!" (Burns Red In The Sun?)

"Eye of the Beholder"