Quotes About Doc Holliday

#1. I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people.

Val Kilmer

#2. At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name." - Attributed to John H. "Doc" Holliday

Mary Doria Russell

#3. The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.

Mary Doria Russell

#4. But, Jesus, Tommy, what do you expect me to say? I grew up with you. When we were kids your fly was open more often than the twenty-four-hour laundromat. If your dick had been a gun you could have outdrawn Doc Holliday.

Bart Yates

#5. Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating?

Doc Holliday

#6. Well I'll Be Damned. This is funny.

Doc Holliday

#7. Forgive me if I don't shake hands.

Doc Holliday

#8. If I thought you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.

Doc Holliday

#9. With timid curiosity, I asked, what do you mean the old bodies get reused?

Andrew Cormier

#10. Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me.

Doc Holliday

#11. My hypocrisy only goes so far.

Doc Holliday

#12. Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

Homer

#13. It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Doc Holliday

#14. John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves.

Mary Doria Russell

#15. There is no normal life, there's just life.

Doc Holliday

#16. My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Wayne Dyer

#17. Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. If you fellows have been hunted from one end of the country to the other as I have been, you'll understand what a bad man's reputation is built on. I've had credit for more killings than I ever dreamt of

Doc Holliday

#19. Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.

Doc Holliday

#20. A mother burying her child is the only thing that could make one truly long for death - if only for the sliver of hope that she might glimpse her child again.

Emma Chase

#21. Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.

Doc Holliday