- Edna Harden: I paid a thousand dollars for the hire of that gun but you don't seem ready to use it.
- Paladin: Well to tell you the truth I don't really enjoy my work. But I think I'll see what the boys in the back room will have.
- Paladin: Steward, there are three basic ingredients for a good salad, a miser for the vinegar, a spendthrift for the oil, and a madman for the tossing.
- Hey Boy: Female woman say to Hey Boy, tell Mr Paladin he come play blackjack.
- Paladin: Lady, Hey Boy, not female woman.
- Hey Boy: Lady? Maybe so. She deal cards, blackjack.
- Paladin: A woman dealer in the Carleton?
- Hey Boy: She take employment while you away. Very nice, nice hair, nice there, nice.
- Paladin: Well, as Hey Boy says, Mr Paladin will now go play blackjack.
- Edna Harden: How did you?
- Paladin: High ceiling. High ceilings mean attics, and attics have crawl holes. And sooner or later they're gonna figure that out.
- Al Long: I've even figured out what I want on my tombstone. Here lies Long, in too many ways he was short.