Shenandoah (1965)

Doug McClure: Sam

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• Charlie Anderson : Do you like her?

  Lt. Sam : Well, I just said I...

  Charlie Anderson : No, no. You just said you loved her. There's some difference between lovin' and likin'. When I married Jennie's mother, I-I didn't love her - I liked her... I liked her a lot. I liked Martha for at least three years after we were married and then one day it just dawned on me I loved her. I still do... still do. You see, Sam, when you love a woman without likin' her, the night can be long and cold, and contempt comes up with the sun.

• Charlie Anderson : It's no easy job, Sam, to take care of a woman.

  Lt. Sam : No, sir.

  Charlie Anderson : They expect things they never ask for. And when they don't get them, they ask you why. Sometimes they don't ask... and just go ahead and punish you for not doing something you didn't know you were supposed to do in the first place.

• [Sam has ordered his men to go home] 

  Lt. Sam : I had no right to tell him that, but these men can't go through another fight. We knew before we went into the last one we couldn't win.

  Charlie Anderson : Then why'd you do it, Sam?

  Lt. Sam : Easier than runnin', I gues.

• Lt. Sam : I'd be eternally grateful if you'd permit me to call upon you this evening.

  Jennie Anderson : Eternally is a long time, Sam.

  Lt. Sam : Not when one carries a memory of you, Miss Jennie.

• Lt. Sam : I don't know what to say. I mean... Well, I know what to say, I just don't know how.

  Jennie Anderson : It must be all very complicated, then.

  Lt. Sam : No, it's, uh, just all memorized. Everything I wanted to say I've said a dozen times before I got here. I said it to my horse and it sounded good. I said it again to the trees ans it sounded better. I said it to the moon and it sounded perfect.

  Jennie Anderson : The moon can't hear you, Sam. He smiles and smiles, but he never hears. I do.

  Lt. Sam , Jennie Anderson : [noticing porch audience they walk further on]