31 Classic Blazing Saddles Quotes and Sayings From The West

Jam-packed with jokes, Blazing Saddles is a take-no-prisoners film that makes fun of everything in the name of showing the worst and best in the human race. Every humorous line holds a mirror up to society which few comedies ever do, depicted from voices of the wild west.

Blazing Saddles was released in 1974 and is an American satirical Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. It was his first commercial hit, starred Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. Brooks wrote the film, with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger. It was based on Bergman’s story and draft.

The film follows a simple plot, when a new sheriff in Rock Ridge who is black, teams up with the deputy to uncover a scheme. Brooks appears in three supporting roles, adding to the humor and laughs. The entire cast pull of a steady stream of gags throughout the film, with juvenile and crude humour at its finest. The movie received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences who encouraged the humor of Brooks and the entire crew.  

Blazing Saddles was nominated for three Academy Awards and is ranked number six on the American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Laughs list. In 2006, the film was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. With consistent humour, Blazing Saddles produced a series of lines which are inspired through the wild west and produced by some of the finest writers. The memorable quotes will forever make us laugh and take us back to the days where crude humor was almost a necessity to engage as many viewers as possible.

1. Le Petomane Thruway?! Now, what’ll that *sshole think of next? Does anybody got a dime? Somebody’s gotta go back and get a sh*tload of dimes!

Taggart

2. No. Don’t do that, don’t do that. If you shoot him you’ll just make him mad.

 Jim

3. I hate to disappoint you, ma’am, but you’re suckin’ on my arm!

Bart

4. What did you expect? “Welcome, sonny?” “Make yourself at home?” “Marry my daughter?” You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

Jim

5. Why don’t you, uh…loosen your bullets?

Lili von Shtupp

6. My name is Jim. But most people call me… Jim.

Jim

7. Let’s face it. Everything below the waist is kaput!

Lili von Shtupp

8. Horses? We cain’t afford t’lose no horses, you dummy! Send over a couple’a n******.

Taggart

9. Come on, Lamarr, let’s get down to bwass tacks.

Lili von Shtupp

10. What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a-goin’ on here? I hired you people to get some track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City f*ggots!

Taggart

11. God darnit Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar wh*re.

Taggart

12. A wed wose… how womantic.

Lili von Shtupp

13. I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, *ss-kickers, sh*t-kickers, and Methodists!

Hedley Lamarr

14. Hold it! Next man makes a move, the nigger gets it!

Bart

15. Come on, boys! The way you’re lollygaggin’ around here with them picks and them shovels, you’d think it was a hundert an’ twenty degrees…! Can’t be more than a hundert an’ fourteen!

Lyle

16. Where you headed, cowboy?

Jim

17. I get no kick from champagne… Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all… so why then should it be true?… that I get a belt – outta you… Some get a kick from coca-yeai-yeaiineee…

Bart

18. Well, that’s where we go a-ridin’ into town, a-whoppin’ and a-whumpin’ every livin’ thing that moves within an inch of its life. Except the womenfolks, of course.

Taggart

19. Hold it! Hold it! What the hell is that sh*t?! I meant a song! A real song! Something like”Swing low, sweet chariot”…

Lyle

20. My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives…

Hedley Lamarr:

21. Gentlemen, affairs of state must take precedent over… affairs of state.

Bart

22. Mongo only pawn in game of life.

Mongo

23. A sheriff! But law and order is the last thing I want! Wait a minute…maybe I can use this to my advantage. If I could find a sheriff who so offends the people of Rock Ridge that his very appearance would drive them out of town! Wherever will I find such a man? Why am I asking you?

Hedley Lamarr

24. Tell me, “Tex ma’am”, are you in show business? Well then why don’t you get your fwiggin’ feet off the stage!

Lili von Shtupp

25. Sir, he specifically requested two n******. Well, to tell the family secret, my grandmother was Dutch.

Bart

26. There might be a legal precedent. Land snatching. L-l-land. See snatch.

Hedley Lamarr

27. The surveyors say they may have run into some quicksand up ahead. Better check it out.

Taggart

28. Watch that “boy” sh*t, redneck! You’re talkin’ to the sheriff of Rock Ridge!

Bart

29. Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Hedley Lamarr

30. A man drink like that and he don’t eat, he is going to die.

Bart

31. How did he do such fantastic stunts with such little feet?

Hedley Lamarr