“Something Very Expensive” quotes from Deadwood

Doc Cochran

You, Al, are an object lesson in the healing powers of obstinacy and a hostile disposition.

Sol

If you keep it up, we're going to fight, and you'll have to work by yourself while I convalesce.

And you, Mr. Wolcott, I find you the most severe disappointment of all.

Wolcott

Often to myself as well.

Lot, before God, could make no case for that food.

Lot's wife may have been in that food.

Cy Tolliver

Now that's an attitude right there I want us to counsel on. Smart-alecky sort of attitude and almost with a quality of.. fuckin' anger to it. I don't find the exact fuckin' words for it, but it fuckin' disturbs and concerns me.

Francis Wolcott

By my lights, I feel I manage well.

Cy Tolliver

Well, you can say that, Mr. Wolcott, yet I hear accounts that you're a dangerous lay, and that adds to my feeling disturbed. Are you inclined, sir, every so often to.. 'ride one off the cliff'? Girls, I mean.

Francis Wolcott

I am disturbed at my private conduct being spoken of.

Cy Tolliver

Well, I should think you fuckin' would be. And to think of Mr. Hearst's disturbance if he was to fuckin' know. Because, that's a dangerous habit to indulge when you're not among friends.

Francis Wolcott

Are you my friend, Mr. Tolliver?

Cy Tolliver

And someone past surprise at habits or inclination, or turns of events, and who don't confuse himself far as sitting in judgment with our Lord in fuckin' heaven.

Francis Wolcott

I see

Cy Tolliver

And who would never tattle to your employer or jeopardize what's got to be a handsome fuckin' income. God damn right, I am your friend, Mr. Wolcott. All I can't provide for the party is the cliff.

Francis Wolcott

Believing yourself past surprise does not commend you to me as a friend. A man inadequately sophisticated or merely ignorant, or simply stupid, may believe himself past surprise, then be surprised to discover, for example, that Mr. Hearst already knows of my inclinations and finds them immaterial. Suggesting as a corollary that your skills for blackmail and manipulation no longer are assets to you, and for your fatuous belief in their efficacy, in fact have become liabilities. In short, you've overplayed your hand. Now I should think, in consequence, now recognizing yourself as a man past his time, that during this last transitional period you would devote yourself with grateful and quiet diligence to such uses as others may still find you suitable.

Francis Wolcott

[Muttering to himself] Past hope. Past kindness or consideration. Past justice. Past satisfaction. Past warmth or cold or comfort. Past love. But past surprise? What an endlessly unfolding tedium life would then become!