Fargo Quotes

Ethelrida Pearl Smutney: History is a form of memory. But what does it mean to remember? We think, naturally, of our own past, our lives day by day, and through them we see the events of our times. We are black and white, rich and poor, foreign-born and domestic. And yet, if our pasts are separate, then aren't our histories separate, too? Segregated? Ask yourself: who writes the books? Who chooses what we remember and what gets forgotten?

Ebal Violante: I can tell you are thinking, you can just kill me the way you kill the men before. But this is a mistake. Because when you look at me, you don't see the man behind me, and the man behind him, and all the men that follow. Forever. You see them now. The wave that never ends.

Joe Bulo: Any last requests? Oraetta Mayflower: Yeah, uh, can you shoot him first so I can watch? Josto Fadda: What?

Ebal Violante: It's s***, no? The old way for the old world. Brothers, uncles, cousins. We live in the new world now. We need a new way.

Loy Cannon: My son said I should hear what you got to say. But this thing is dead. Your house is mine. Your business is mine for as long as I live. Which could be another half an hour.

Lionel Halloway: Some people got no respect for a promise. Josto Fadda: We don't make promises. We make deals.

Oraetta Mayflower: The Devil's got a special place in hell for small minds who betray their better's trust. Who take advantage of their charitable acts.

Lionel Halloway: Losin' this war, is you? Loy Cannon: You're always losing. Till you win. That's why it's called an underdog.

The Future is Now!

Rabbi Milligan: It's the principle, making people live with uncertainty. It ain't right.

Rabbi Milligan: Only a fool thinks the world's gonna stay exactly as it was.

Hunk Swindell: Ain't nothing in this world impossible if'n a man's got the right attitude.

Dick Wickware: You want to die like a man, you got to live like a man.

Dick Wickware: Should I tell you what I've learned about the criminal mindset? By definition, the criminal rejects accountability, as their identity is based on getting away with things. Similarly, the criminal, you... rejects morality and ethics, for if there is a larger right, then the criminal himself is always wrong. And you don't strike me as the type of man thinks himself wrong.

Dick Wickware: I got me one of those, too. Makes a pretty sound when it fires. Kind of like Chinese New Year. But maybe instead of the six-shooter, you'd rather see my badge. I keep it real shiny. U.S. Marshal. Backed by the power of the mighty American eagle. And if that old raptor could talk, he'd say, "Son, stand aside now, for there's no power on earth that can keep a U.S. lawman from the execution of his duty."

Buel Cannon: People come to my husband, looking for money, at the end of their rope, and they all think the same thing. "I've got nothing left to lose." But there's always lower you can go.

Loy Cannon: Every country has its own type of criminal. In America, we got the confidence man. Snake oil salesman, grifter. He don't rob you as much as trick you into robbing yourself. See, 'cause in America, people want to believe. They got that dream. And a dreamer, you can fleece.