"Red Harvest" Quotes

I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.

I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

The town is a thousand miles east of hell and every bit as crooked and twice as dirty.

The red hair that Jules Amthor himself had given me stood up on my head.

I’d have taken him apart just to cook his goose.

Just go ahead and try to kill me!

Too big to relish a bite out of, if you know what I mean.

Poisonville was not among the preferred outlets of the wilhauk machine.

When a man can’t tell a lie, he ought to be a boss.

I wouldn’t look right walking around with another chin on me.