Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Wyatt Earp

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American public servant Wyatt Earp.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone. Earp took part in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys. He is often erroneously regarded as the central figure in the shootout, although his brother Virgil was the Tombstone City and Deputy U.S. Marshal that day and had far more experience in combat as a sheriff, constable, marshal, and soldier.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.
Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into. — © Wyatt Earp
Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into.
No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.
My name is Wyatt Earp! It all ends now!
Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.
The most important lesson I learned ... was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time.
You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.
The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.
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