Al Swearengen Sayings

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

Steven Erikson

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

Al Swearengen

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

Al Swearengen

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Al Swearengen

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

Al Swearengen

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

Jasper Fforde

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

Al Swearengen

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

Al Swearengen

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Al Swearengen

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

Al Swearengen

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

Al Swearengen

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

Jabari Parker

#17. 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

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

Al Swearengen

#19. Poetry is prose in slow motion.

Nicholson Baker

#20. 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

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

Al Swearengen