O Brother Where Art Thou the Water Is Fine

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• Pete : Y'all miserable footling serpent! Yous stole from my kin!

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Who was fixin' to betray us.

  Pete : You didn't know that at the time.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : So I borrowed it until I did know.

  Pete : That don't make no sense!

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

• Pete : Wait a minute. Who elected you lot leader of this outfit?

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well Pete, I figured it should exist the one with the capacity for abstract thought. But if that ain't the consensus view, and then hell, permit's put it to a vote.

  Pete : Suits me. I'm voting for yours truly.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well I'chiliad voting for yours truly too.

  [Everett and Pete look at Delmar for the deciding vote]

  Delmar O'Donnell : Okay... I'm with you fellas.

• Pete : Well I'll be a sonofabitch. Delmar'south been saved.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Well that's information technology, boys. I've been redeemed. The preacher'south done warshed away all my sins and transgressions. It'south the straight and narrow from here on out, and sky everlasting'southward my reward.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Delmar, what are you talking most? Nosotros've got bigger fish to fry.

  Delmar O'Donnell : The preacher says all my sins is warshed away, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : I thought y'all said you was innocent of those charges?

  Delmar O'Donnell : Well I was lyin'. And the preacher says that that sin's been warshed away as well. Neither God nor human's got nothin' on me at present. C'mon in boys, the water is fine.

• Pete : I've always wondered, what's the devil look similar?

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork.

  Tommy Johnson : Oh, no. No, sir. He's white, every bit white as you lot folks, with empty eyes and a big hollow vocalism. He likes to travel around with a mean onetime hound. That's right.

• Pete : The Preacher said it absolved the states.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : For him, not for the police force. I'm surprised at you, Pete, I gave you credit for more brains than Delmar.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Just they was witnesses that seen us redeemed.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : That's not the result Delmar. Even if that did put you lot foursquare with the Lord, the Land of Mississippi's a trivial more than hard-nosed.

  [laughs]

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Baptism! You lot two are merely dumber than a pocketbook of hammers!

• Ulysses Everett McGill : The treasure is nevertheless there boys, believe me.

  Delmar O'Donnell : But how'd he know about the treasure?

  Ulysses Everett McGill : I don't know Delmar. The bullheaded are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of sight, even to the point of developing paranormal psychic powers. At present, clearly seeing into the future would fall into neatly into that category; its not and then surprising then that an organism deprived of its earthly vision...

  Pete : He said we wouldn't get go it. He said we wouldn't get the treasure we seek on account of our ob-stac-les.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well what the hell does he know, he's but an ignorant old man?

• [singing]

  Ulysses Everett McGill : I am a man of constant sorrow, I've seen trouble all my days. I bid cheerio to erstwhile Kentucky, the place where I was born and raised.

  Delmar O'Donnell , Pete : The place where he was built-in and raised.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : For six long years I've been in trouble, no pleasure here on Globe I've found. For in this world I'thou bound to constitutional, I have no friends to assistance me out.

  Delmar O'Donnell , Pete : He has no friends to help him out.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Maybe your friends think I'g just a stranger, my face you never will encounter no more. Just there is 1 promise that is given, I'll meet you on God's gold shore.

  Delmar O'Donnell , Pete : He'll run across yous on God'southward gold shore.

• Ulysses Everett McGill : Pete's cousin turned us in for the bounty.

  Pete : The hell you say! Wash is kin!

  Washington Hogwallop : Sorry, Pete, I know we're kin, only they got this depression on. I got to practise for me and mine.

  Pete : I'chiliad gonna impale you, Judas Iscariot Hogwallop!

• Pete : Well hell, it ain't square one! Ain't nobody gonna pick up three filthy, unshaved hitch-hikers, and one of them a know-it-all that can't proceed his trap shut.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Pete, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment. But I would like to address your general mental attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the goddamn field or... hell! Have at expect at Delmar here as your paradigm of hope.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Aye, look at me.

• Delmar O'Donnell : We thought you was a toad!

  Pete : What?

  Delmar O'Donnell : [leaning in, speaking slower] Nosotros thought you was a toad!

• Pete : Exercise not seek the treasure!

• Ulysses Everett McGill : Ain't you gonna introduce us, Pete?

  Pete : I don't know their names. I seen 'em start!

• Pete : Crazy! No ane's ever gonna believe nosotros're a real band.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : No, it'southward gonna work. I simply gotta get shut enough to talk to her. Takin' off with united states has got more futurity than marryin' a guy named Waldrip. I'one thousand Goddamned bona fide!

  Delmar O'Donnell : Everett, my beard itches.

• Ulysses Everett McGill : Well, I gauge hard times flush the chump. Everybody's lookin' for answers... Where the hell's he goin'?

  [as Delmar runs out to be baptized]

  Pete : Well, I'll exist a son of a bitch. Delmar'south been saved!

• Pete : You ruined my life!

  [while beingness choked]

  Ulysses Everett McGill : I do apologize about that Pete.

• Pete : Since we been followin' your atomic number 82, we ain't got nothing but problem.

• Pete : My pa always said "Never trust a Hogwallop!"

• Ulysses Everett McGill : The old tactician has got a programme. For the transportation that is, I don't know how I'k gonna keep my coiffure in order.

  Pete : How'due south this a plan? How we gonna get a car?

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Sell that. I figure it can simply have painful association for Wash.

  Pete : [reading] "To Washington Bartholomew Hogwallop, from his loving Cora. Amor Fidel... is."

  Ulysses Everett McGill : It was in his bureau. I effigy it'll fetch us enough greenbacks for a good used automobile-voiture, and a lilliputian left over besides.

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