No Country for Old Men Quotes by Chapter

He set the waterjug on the ground. You dumb-ass, he said. Here you are. Too dumb to live. (1.3.131)

You get stopped with that old boy in the turtle just tell em you dont know nothin about it. Tell em somebody must of put him in there while you was havin coffee. (2.2.47)

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it. (3.1.6)

With the next shot he felt a stinging pain in his side. He fell down and got up again leaving Chigurh's shotgun lying in the street. Damn, he said. What a shot. (4.2.193)

You cant corrupt [the truth] because that's what it is. It's the thing you're talkin about. I've heard it compared to the rock—maybe in the bible—and I wouldnt disagree with that. But it'll be...

Loretta told me that she had heard on the radio about some percentage of the children in this country bein raised by their grandparents. I forget what it was. Pretty high. […] When the next gener...

Finally told me, said: I dont like the way this country is headed. I want my granddaughter to be able to have an abortion. And I said well mam […] not only will she be able to have an abortion, s...

They asked me if I believed in Satan. I said Well that aint the point. And they said I know but do you? I had to think about that. I guess as a boy I did. Come the middle of my years my belief I re...

My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were....

If I had it to do over again I'd do it different. I know that. (10.2.91)

He just rared back and laughed and he said: Where do they find somebody like you? Have they got you in diapers yet? (11.1.9)

It was defeat. It was being beaten. More bitter to him than death. You need to get over that, he said. Then he started the truck. (12.2.1)