- Martha McCoy: Your Uncle Jim Vance is the only one my Harmon accused of fornicating with his hound dog.
- Jim Vance: Didn't even pay for your drink. What kind of damn man are you?
- Harmon McCoy: The kind who you want to come after, you'll find ready Jim Vance! Unlike your kinfolk here, I'm not afeared of no man, on account of he uses his dog for a whore!
- Sally McCoy: Randall, is that you? You've aged so.
- Randall McCoy: The Yankees done it. Treated us like animals in their prison.
- Levicy Hatfield: [to Roseanna] This bullheaded feud between your pa and my Anderson is a kind of slow poison.
- Judge Valentine 'Wall' Hatfield: This case is dismissed.Now everybody get the hell out of my courtroom.
- Bill Staton: Should I say on the Bible that I saw it?
- Judge Valentine 'Wall' Hatfield: I'd advise you not to.
- Perry Cline: [to the jury] It is useful to think of the law as a muscle. Like a muscle, it can be strengthened with proper use.
- Roseanna McCoy: He's very handsome.
- Nancy McCoy: He's another "Devil Anse" Hatfield.
- Roseanna McCoy: I ain't never seen no devil look like that before.
- Bill Staton: [singing] I don't drink,I don't smoke,but I'll give your girl a poke,I said I don't drink,I don't smoke,I said I'll give your girl a poke.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: Well, you hate 'em so much, how come you didn't sign up to fight 'em?
- Jim Vance: Fightin' on others' terms is how you lose, and losin' is intolerable to me.
- Martha McCoy: Ain't right. Come home from the army, breedin' me like I was cattle, then you take off again?
- Tolbert McCoy: Yeah, Mush-head, don't blow us all up, you half-wit bastard moron.
- Ellison Hatfield: Come here. Come here! Find it funny? Come here. Apologize.
- Tolbert McCoy: Yeah, I'm sorry you's a bastard, Cotton.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: You see a mean dog sleepin', you go pester him?
- Bill Staton: No sir, No sir.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: He awake, you go - go kick him?
- Bill Staton: Mm-mmm.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: No you don't. You leave him alone. Maybe he goes back to sleep. You get my point?
- Randall McCoy: Do whatever you want. You like the Hatfields so much, why don't you go stay with them forever. You're not my daughter anymore.
- Ellison Hatfield: Hey, do you remember when we was kids? Pa, he told me to go shoot that fox nosin' around the henhouse.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: Yeah. You didn't want to kill it.
- Ellison Hatfield: You poked fun at me for it, but helped me trap it so as we could take it across the river and let it go. Never come around again. And Pa, he was none the wiser. All I'm sayin' is, smart as you are, maybe you can figure out another way.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: I hear you, Ellison. But you should know the reason that fox didn't - didn't never come around again. After you went home, I killed it.
- Judge Valentine 'Wall' Hatfield: Is the pig in court today?
- Floyd Hatfield: No, it ain't.
- Judge Valentine 'Wall' Hatfield: Why not?
- Floyd Hatfield: Well, it's done been et.
- [laughter in the court]