- Bill Harmon: Hi!
- John Benton: How are you, stranger?
- Bill Harmon: Oh, as well as can be expected, I guess.
- John Benton: Well, I always say, if you keep your expectations small, your disappointments won't be so big.
- Bill Harmon: I'm interested in something stronger than your evidence or mine.
- Sheriff 'Buffalo' Bailey: What's that?
- Bill Harmon: The truth! And I plan to keep prospecting until I pan it out.
- Bill Harmon: How are you?
- Gunsmith 'Trigger' Chandler: Just as fit as hard work and a clean conscience can keep a man.
- Henchman 'Red' Snyder: Well, what do you think of your friend Harmon?
- Gunsmith 'Trigger' Chandler: I think the town could stand reduction in its population.
- Henchman 'Red' Snyder: I'd be willing to reduce its census figures by one for, say, five thousand dollars.
- Gunsmith 'Trigger' Chandler: That's pretty high, especially since you've got a grudge against him yourself.
- Henchman 'Red' Snyder: Killing a guy for a grudge is pleasure. Killing for somebody else is business - and I never mix business with pleasure.
- Dr. Charles B. 'Doc' Ryan: Looks like we're going to have to spend $5000 to protect $100,000.
- Gunsmith 'Trigger' Chandler: I'll put Red right to work.
- Dr. Charles B. 'Doc' Ryan: Tell him to make it look good. Have him provoke Harmon until he goes gunning for him.
- Gunsmith 'Trigger' Chandler: All right, Mr. Coroner. You'll have another autopsy for you tomorrow.
- [Bill and John wait for John's daughter to arrive on the next stagecoach]
- Bill Harmon: I never let sleuthing get in the way of meeting a pretty girl.
- John Benton: How do you know she's good-looking?
- Bill Harmon: It's a matter of percentages.
- John Benton: Percentages?
- Bill Harmon: Sure! Somebody in the family has to be good-looking.
- Bill Harmon: Did you have a nice trip?
- Joan Benton: I thought it would never end! The driver walked the horses for the last five miles.
- Bill Harmon: Well, that's so he could make that run down the street to show the citizens how fast the service is.
- John Benton: This assayer is as slow as molasses, so I may be in there quite a while.
- Joan Benton: Don't hurry on my account, Dad.
- Bill Harmon: Take your time, Mr. Benton. There's been a lot of weather for your daughter and me to talk about.
- Bill Harmon: I only met your Dad yesterday, but I sure like him.
- Joan Benton: Well, I consulted with the stork a long time before I picked him out.
- Joan Benton: Let's go, Bill. He's drunk.
- Henchman 'Red' Snyder: I'd resent that if it came from a lady.
- [Bill reaches for his pistol, but changes his mind]
- Henchman 'Red' Snyder: I didn't think you would. I bet you take your sasparilla straight!
- [Red turns and walks into the saloon]
- Joan Benton: Being a gentleman is hard work at times, isn't it, Bill?
- Bill Harmon: I think you'd better help your daddy with that assay report.
- Joan Benton: Don't drink too much sasparilla.
- [during a gunfight that destroys his bar]
- Bart Hammond, Bartender: Brooklyn wasn't good enough. I had to listen to Horace Greeley.
- Sheriff 'Buffalo' Bailey: One more drink and then you go.
- [Red grabs the whiskey bottle and starts guzzling]
- Bart Hammond, Bartender: Wait a minute! Wait a minute! He said a drink, not a deluge!
- [Joan visits Bill in jail]
- Joan Benton: I'm disappointed in you, William Harmon.
- Bill Harmon: Why is that, Joan?
- Joan Benton: I came here to cheer you up and you're gay as a lark.
- Bill Harmon: Why shouldn't I be? I'm in cage.
- Joan Benton: Maybe that's where you belong.
- [Dr. Ryan prepares to operate on John]
- Bill Harmon: His pulse is good and it's going to be good after you get the bullet out - otherwise your pulse is going to stop suddenly.