Important Quotes from The Outsiders

Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold. – Johnny

Things are rough all over. – Cherry

Nothing Gold Can Stay. – Ponyboy

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. – Ponyboy

You can’t win, even if you whip us, you’ll still be where you were before, at the bottom. – Dally

It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset. – Ponyboy

It’s okay, baby. I’m not afraid of them anymore. I’m not afraid. – Johnny

We’re all we’ve got left. We ought to be able to stick together against everything. If we don’t have each other, we don’t have anything. – Ponyboy

I was too good for this world. – Dally

It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. – Ponyboy

I guess we’re different. I saw it in their eyes. They saw something different. They saw something unique. – Ponyboy

I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. And I’m proud of it. – Ponyboy

I think something is wrong with us. We’re different. – Steve

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in the world. – Dally

Important Quotes from The Outsiders part 2

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset. – Ponyboy

He would die for me. But he won’t live for me. – Ponyboy

Whoever–whatever–it was was coming at a fast walk. They must have been running.’ – Ponyboy

When I stepped back, my foot hit something soft. I stared down at it, frozen, and Dallas skirted around me and bent quickly to pick up a dark, heavy object: a black-handled switchblade. – Ponyboy

I didn’t like trouble, but if it meant trouble, that’s what I wanted. – Ponyboy

No wonder Johnny didn’t have any parents. You’d have to be crazy to have a kid like that. – Two-Bit

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren’t looking for a fight. They were looking to belong. – Johnny

We could have another rumble—win this time. – Two-Bit

Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it’s the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs. – Randy

We both need a haircut and some decent clothes. If they catch us, they’ll give us time in the cooler—five days on bread and water. – Dally

Just keep breathing, that’s the trick. – Steve

Those were cool digs. I’d like to have a house like them someday. – Ponyboy

I had taken a bath in months. The water was black. – Ponyboy

I don’t know—all I know is that I should. Besides, Soda’ll kill me if I get marks on it. – Ponyboy

Life isn’t just some game. You had to learn to be tough in the crowd. – Ponyboy

Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. – Dally

He’ll think you’ve got no guts if you don’t try to stand up for yourself. -Dally

I couldn’t take the fact that it happened. – Johnny

I’ve got a lot of problems. – Two-Bit

You’re a big traitor and a pain in the neck, you know that? – Dally

They beat up Johnny. They were rough with the girls. – Ponyboy

I am a greaser, I am proud of it, and I don’t mind admitting it at all. – Randy

I set for Darry. I never yelled at him without reason. – Ponyboy

There should be some help, someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore. – Ponyboy

I guess we’re different because they can’t frighten us with looks or judge us by the way we wear our hair. – Ponyboy

Pony… I … I killed him, I killed that boy. – Johnny

We can’t let him rush into it. – Steve

I’ve been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you’re gold when you’re a kid, like green. – Johnny

They’re all going to laugh at you and laugh and laugh. – Johnny

I knew he was suffering from the stalling I sometimes got, the kind where everything’s screwed up at home and you take off downtown and can’t think of anything to do. – Ponyboy

I can’t take much more. I’ll kill myself or something. – Dally