7 Quotes by Bret Harte (Sound Clips)

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1 He was too much of a gambler not to accept his fate. With him, life was at best an uncertain game, and he recognized the usual percentage in favour of the dealer.

Laurence Olivier in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1954)

2 I can detect a touch of frost in the air. Or is that merely my imagination? -Maybe.

Laurence Olivier in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1954)

3 Thank you, ma'am. I never drink. I find it interferes with my profession.

Laurence Olivier in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1954)

4 Do you know what? He won $40 off me at poker, all the money I had. Then he takes me aside and gives them back to me, just so long as I never played poker again.

Laurence Olivier as Narrator in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1954)

5 He stopped in some alarm, thinking of the whiskey that he prudently hidden. And if this didn't somehow sound like whiskey.

Laurence Olivier in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1954)

6 The wind blowed as if it feared to waken them.

Laurence Olivier in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1954)

7 We're running you out of town. -May I ask why, gentlemen? -You're a no-good gambler, and this town's got no use for you or the likes of you.

Laurence Olivier as Narrator in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1954)