Who Played Hogwollap in Oh Brother Where Art Thou

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• Pete : You miserable little snake! You stole from my kin!

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Who was fixin' to beguile us.

  Pete : Yous didn't know that at the time.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : And then I borrowed it until I did know.

  Pete : That don't make no sense!

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human being heart.

• Pete : Wait a infinitesimal. Who elected you lot leader of this outfit?

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well Pete, I figured it should be the i with the chapters for abstract thought. Just if that ain't the consensus view, then hell, let's put it to a vote.

  Pete : Suits me. I'grand voting for yours truly.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well I'm voting for yours truly too.

  [Everett and Pete wait at Delmar for the deciding vote]

  Delmar O'Donnell : Okay... I'one thousand with you lot fellas.

• Pete : Well I'll be a sonofabitch. Delmar's been saved.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Well that's it, boys. I've been redeemed. The preacher's done warshed away all my sins and transgressions. It'southward the straight and narrow from here on out, and heaven everlasting's my reward.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Delmar, what are you talking nearly? We've got bigger fish to fry.

  Delmar O'Donnell : The preacher says all my sins is warshed away, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : I thought you said you was innocent of those charges?

  Delmar O'Donnell : Well I was lyin'. And the preacher says that that sin's been warshed away too. Neither God nor man'due south got nothin' on me at present. C'mon in boys, the water is fine.

• Pete : I've always wondered, what's the devil look like?

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well, at that place are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork.

  Tommy Johnson : Oh, no. No, sir. He's white, as white as you lot folks, with empty optics and a big hollow vox. He likes to travel effectually with a mean one-time hound. That's right.

• Pete : The Preacher said it absolved us.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : For him, not for the law. I'thousand surprised at you, Pete, I gave y'all credit for more than brains than Delmar.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Simply they was witnesses that seen u.s.a. redeemed.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : That'south non the consequence Delmar. Even if that did put you square with the Lord, the State of Mississippi's a niggling more hard-nosed.

  [laughs]

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Baptism! Yous two are just dumber than a bag of hammers!

• Ulysses Everett McGill : The treasure is still there boys, believe me.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Merely how'd he know about the treasure?

  Ulysses Everett McGill : I don't know Delmar. The bullheaded are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of sight, even to the point of developing paranormal psychic powers. Now, clearly seeing into the future would autumn into neatly into that category; its non so surprising then that an organism deprived of its earthly vision...

  Pete : He said we wouldn't go get it. He said we wouldn't go the treasure we seek on account of our ob-stac-les.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well what the hell does he know, he's just an ignorant sometime human being?

• [singing]

  Ulysses Everett McGill : I am a man of constant sorrow, I've seen problem all my days. I bid farewell to old Kentucky, the place where I was born and raised.

  Delmar O'Donnell , Pete : The place where he was born and raised.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : For six long years I've been in trouble, no pleasure here on Earth I've found. For in this world I'm bound to constitutional, I have no friends to help me out.

  Delmar O'Donnell , Pete : He has no friends to help him out.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Peradventure your friends think I'm simply a stranger, my confront you never volition encounter no more. Just there is one hope that is given, I'll see you on God's gilded shore.

  Delmar O'Donnell , Pete : He'll meet you on God'southward gold shore.

• Ulysses Everett McGill : Pete'due south cousin turned us in for the compensation.

  Pete : The hell you say! Wash is kin!

  Washington Hogwallop : Distressing, Pete, I know we're kin, simply they got this depression on. I got to exercise for me and mine.

  Pete : I'one thousand gonna kill you lot, Judas Iscariot Hogwallop!

• Pete : Well hell, it ain't square one! Ain't nobody gonna pick up three filthy, unshaved hitch-hikers, and one of them a know-information technology-all that can't go along his trap shut.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Pete, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment. But I would like to accost your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the goddamn field or... hell! Take at expect at Delmar hither as your prototype of hope.

  Delmar O'Donnell : Yeah, look at me.

• Delmar O'Donnell : We thought you was a toad!

  Pete : What?

  Delmar O'Donnell : [leaning in, speaking slower] We thought you lot was a toad!

• Pete : Practice not seek the treasure!

• Ulysses Everett McGill : Own't you gonna introduce usa, Pete?

  Pete : I don't know their names. I seen 'em commencement!

• Pete : Crazy! No ane's ever gonna believe we're a real ring.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : No, it's gonna piece of work. I merely gotta get shut plenty to talk to her. Takin' off with u.s.a. has got more than time to come than marryin' a guy named Waldrip. I'm Goddamned bona fide!

  Delmar O'Donnell : Everett, my bristles itches.

• Ulysses Everett McGill : Well, I judge hard times flush the doormat. Everybody'due south lookin' for answers... Where the hell's he goin'?

  [as Delmar runs out to be baptized]

  Pete : Well, I'll be a son of a bitch. Delmar's been saved!

• Pete : You ruined my life!

  [while being choked]

  Ulysses Everett McGill : I do apologize virtually that Pete.

• Pete : Since we been followin' your lead, we ain't got nil but problem.

• Pete : My pa ever said "Never trust a Hogwallop!"

• Ulysses Everett McGill : The old tactician has got a plan. For the transportation that is, I don't know how I'm gonna continue my crew in order.

  Pete : How'southward this a plan? How we gonna get a car?

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Sell that. I effigy it can only have painful clan for Wash.

  Pete : [reading] "To Washington Bartholomew Hogwallop, from his loving Cora. Amor Fidel... is."

  Ulysses Everett McGill : It was in his bureau. I effigy information technology'll fetch united states of america enough cash for a skilful used auto-voiture, and a little left over besides.

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