Children Quote by Charles Portis

“Who is the best marshal they have?' The sheriff thought on it for a minute. He said, 'I would have to weigh that proposition.…

— Charles Portis

I always go backwards when I am backing up.

— Charles Portis

“Rooster said, "Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!" and he took the reins in his teeth and pulled the other saddle revolver…

— Charles Portis

Nothing I like to do pays well.

— Charles Portis

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

— Charles Portis

“In South Texas I saw three interesting things. The first was a tiny girl, maybe ten years old, driving in a 1965 Cadillac. She…

— Charles Portis

“With that, Quincy brought the bowie knife down on Moon's cuffed hand and chopped off four fingers which flew up before my eyes like…

— Charles Portis

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

— Charles Portis

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

— Charles Portis

I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful, that it…

— Charles Portis

“I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful”

— Charles Portis

“He drank even as he rode, which looked difficult. I cannot say it slowed him down any, but it did make him silly. Why…

— Charles Portis