Deliverance quotes

View Quote Doctor: Explain this to me again. I didn't know somebody could shoot themself with their own arrow.

View Quote Sheriff: Let's just wait and see what comes out of the river.

View Quote Taxi Driver: All this land's gonna be covered with water. This is the best thing that ever happened to this town.

View Quote Bobby: Hey, what happens if we flip this thing over?
Lewis: Now that you brought that up, hang onto your paddle. And if you hit any rocks, don't hit 'em with your head.

View Quote Bobby: I had my first wet dream in a sleepin' bag.
Ed: How was it?
Bobby: Great. [pause] There's no repeatin' it.

View Quote Bobby: It's true, Lewis, what you said. There's somethin' in the woods and in the water that we have lost in the city.
Lewis: We didn't lose it. We sold it.
Bobby: Well, I'll say one thing for the system - the system did produce the air-mattress. Or as it's better known among we camping types the instant broad. And if you fellows will excuse me, I'm gonna go be mean to my air mattress.

View Quote Bobby: Say, mister, I love the way you wear that hat.
Man: You don't know nuthin'.

View Quote Bobby: What are you going to do with Drew?
Ed: [about Drew's wound] If a bullet made this, there are people who can tell.
Bobby: Oh God, there's no end to it. I didn't really know him.
Ed: Drew was a good husband to his wife Linda and you were a wonderful father to your boys, Drew - Jimmie and Billie Ray. And if we come through this, I promise to do all I can for 'em. He was the best of us.
Bobby: Amen.

View Quote Bobby: Which way are we goin', this way or that?
Lewis: I think, uh, downstream would be a good idea, don't you? Drew - you and Bobby see some rocks, you yell out now, right?...
Bobby: Lewis, is this the way you get your rocks off?

View Quote Ed: Everything happened right here. Lewis broke his leg in those rapids there, and Drew drowned here.
Bobby: No, nothin' happened here.
Ed: Bobby, listen to me. We got to stop them from lookin' up river. It's important that we get together on this thing. Do you understand?...We're not out of this yet.

View Quote Ed: What are we gonna do, Lewis? You're the guy with the answers. What the hell do we do now?
Lewis: Now you get to play the game.
Ed: Lewis, you're wrong.

View Quote Lewis: [about their cars] We want somebody to drive 'em down to Aintry for us.
Man: Hell, you're crazy.
Lewis: No shit. Hey, fill that one up with gas, huh, OK?

View Quote Lewis: Can that chubby boy handle himself?
Ed: Bobby? He's rather well thought of in his field, Lewis.
Lewis: Insurance? I never been insured in my life. There's no risk.

View Quote Lewis: Is your name Griner?
Griner: Whaddya wanna know for?
Lewis: I was wondering if you and your brother could take a couple of trucks down to Aintry for us. We'll be there about Sunday noon.
Griner: Take 'em down there for what?
Lewis: Me and my buddy here are taking a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee.
Griner: Canoe trip?
Lewis: That's right, a canoe trip.
Griner: What the hell you wanna go **** around with that river for?
Lewis: Because it's there.
Griner: It's there alright and you get in it and can't git out, you gonna wish it wasn't.
Ed: [lowly] Maybe we should just go home and play golf this weekend.
Lewis: I'll give you thirty bucks to take those vehicles down to Aintry for us.
Griner: I'll take fifty.
Lewis: Fifty my ass.
Ed: [whispering] Lewis, don't play games with these people.
Griner: [stepping forward] What did you say?
Lewis: I said fifty my ass!
Ed: [whispering] Lewis!
Griner: I'll do it fer forty.
Lewis: O.K. [to Ed] You good for ten?
Ed: Yep.

View Quote Lewis: Machines are gonna fail and the system's gonna fail...then, survival. Who has the ability to survive? That's the game - survive.
Ed: Well, the system's done all right by me.
Lewis: Oh yeah. You gotta nice job, you gotta a nice house, a nice wife, a nice kid.
Ed: You make that sound rather shitty, Lewis.
Lewis: Why do you go on these trips with me, Ed?
Ed: I like my life, Lewis.
Lewis: Yeah, but why do you go on these trips with me?
Ed: You know, sometimes I wonder about that.