Al Swearengen Sayings

#1. Michael!" Oliver's voice came faint through the front door. "Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!"
"Trap," Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael's arm as he walked by. "Don't, man."
"What's he going to do? Make faces at me?

Rachel Caine

#2. You can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.

Al Swearengen

#3. In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter.

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. Poetry is prose in slow motion.

Nicholson Baker

#5. The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice.

Al Swearengen

#6. Yeah, the cut throats and the pigs. But who wants all that blood spilled, judge, huh? Isn't there a simpler way of not pissing off the big vipers?

Al Swearengen

#7. It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over.

Jabari Parker

#8. The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

Al Swearengen

#9. Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.

Al Swearengen

#10. Let's leave it all alone. I'm stupidest when I try to be funny.

Al Swearengen

#11. His heart sank as her gaze passed over him, then her head whipped back.

Steven Erikson

#12. You know, it turns out that cannabis really IS a gateway drug.
It's a gateway drug to hashish,
which, actually, is cannabis.

Sienna McQuillen

#13. Pain or damage don't end the world ...

Al Swearengen

#14. Don't I yearn for the days when a draw across the throat made f**king resolution.

Al Swearengen

#15. Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

Jasper Fforde

#16. I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

Al Swearengen

#17. Announcin' your plans is a good way to hear god laugh.

Al Swearengen

#18. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.

Al Swearengen

#19. When you smile, serious ideas get exhausted. At night the mountains keep quiet beside you, in the morning the sand goes with you down to the beach. When you do nice things to me all the heavy industries shut down.

Yehuda Amichai

#20. Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.

Al Swearengen

#21. Change ain't looking for friends. Change calls the tune we all dance to.

Al Swearengen