Raylan Givens quotes from Justified

Raylan Givens

Give me one reason why I shouldn't come up there and kick the living shit out of you.

Boyd Crowder

I'll give you 15 reasons in the mag, and one in the chamber.

Boyd Crowder

We can draw him out.

Raylan Givens

How would we do that? Take you to the middle of town, tie you to a tree, and wait?

Dickie Bennett

You don't have to do this, Raylan.

Raylan Givens

What did you say?

Dickie Bennett

I said I said, you don't you have to do this, Raylan!

Raylan Givens

Of course I do. This is who we are, Dickie. This is who we've always been. Givens, Bennetts going on what? Nearly a hundred years now. And this is how it ends. It can just end.

Dickie Bennett

You didn't just say that! It don't have to be like this with handcuffs in the woods in the middle of the night, Raylan.

Raylan Givens

You walked into my father's home and executed Helen in her goddamn bathrobe.

Dickie Bennett

No, that was not the way it went down, Raylan. Nobody executed her. She died because she had a shotgun pointed at us and she wouldn't listen when I told her to put the gun down. I told her over and over again, "Put the damn gun down," but she wouldn't listen, Raylan. You know how she was!

Raylan Givens

Don't talk about her like you knew her. You didn't know shit about her. That woman saved my life. Did you know that? Criminal for a father, working a deep mine, wondering, "What on Earth could come along and save me?" Helen did. She told me to leave this place behind, be better than Arlo, and she gave me the money to do it. That woman raised her dead sister's kid like he was her own, because... goddamn you, Dickie.

Boyd Crowder

Are you asking me or are you telling me?

Raylan Givens

Well, if it makes you feel better, you can tell people I asked.

Raylan Givens

Doyle, I need you and your boys to put your guns down.

Doyle Bennett

And why would we do that?

Raylan Givens

Maybe you don't wanna see your brother's brains fly through the air.

Raylan Givens

You pull that trigger, your life is gonna change. And not for the better. Now, I want you to ask yourself what your daddy would want you to do.

Loretta McCready

I want him here to tell me.

Raylan Givens

Killing Mags ain't gonna bring him back.

Raylan Givens

Mags? What did you do?

Mags Bennett

Same thing I did to Loretta's daddy. It's too late. It was already in the glass, not in the jar. [starts to convulse] This is the hard part. Put an end to my troubles. Get to see my boys again. Get to know the mystery.

Raylan Givens

Boyd, I've been to Mexico, I don't think you'd like it.

Boyd Crowder

How so?

Raylan Givens

There's a lot of Mexicans.

Boyd Crowder

Raylan, if a book could only be judged by its cover, you'd be a best seller.

Wynn Duffy

As a matter of fact, as I recall, last time we met, you told me the next conversation we had "wasn't gonna be a conversation".

Raylan Givens

This is a different conversation.

I like your hat. There much call for cowboys these days?

Raylan Givens

You would be surprised.

Raylan Givens

It bears a striking resemblance to the creature from "Alien".

Winona Hawkins

It's 6 weeks old, Raylan.

Raylan Givens

All right. Don't come running to me when it busts out your ribcage.

Raylan Givens

When did ya get married?

Two months before I got divorced.

Raylan Givens

These boots aren't made for running.

And yet chasing fugitives is a marshal's primary function.

Wade Messer

We're old friends, aren't we?

Raylan Givens

Friends? You strung me up, and left me for dead.

Wade Messer

I thought that was water under the bridge.

Raylan Givens

Well, maybe Lawrence Nightingale really did take him prisoner. Get it? Lawrence instead of Florence. Lawrence Nightingale.

Rachel Brooks

Yeah. I got it.