- Buck: You're a doctor-type fella, aren't ya?
- Nathan Jackson: Yeah, I suppose.
- Buck: Uh-huh. Um, you've heard about this animal magnetism thing, haven't you? I mean, women can smell it on you. Now, medically speaking, if a man's got it, it's not his fault, right? I mean, it's more like a condition, it's, uh, it's like a rash or an ailment. It won't ever go away, will it? It won't... will it?
- Maude Standish: Raised you better than that.
- Ezra: Raised me? Did you say raised me? Come now, mother. You didn't raise me as well as a... as a stray cat raises a litter. You dumped m,e remember? At every aunt and uncle's home you could find. Unless you needed me... for a con.
- [looking at a beautiful woman]
- Josiah: Now that, my friends, is proof that there is a God.
- Vin: Amen, brother.
- Ezra Standish: Mother!
- Josiah: Mother? I always thought Ezra was raised by wolves.
- [Mr. Wheeler returns the handkerchief Maude "accidentally" dropped]
- Ezra Standish: A handkerchief? The oldest ruse in the book.
- Maude Standish: One can always count on the classics.
- [Ezra drops Maude's heavy suitcase and its contents, several dozen bricks, spill out on the boardwalk]
- Maude Standish: Appearances are everything, darlin'.
- Ezra Standish: [to a gawking towmsman] Rare masonry from ancient Rome. Very valuable.
- John "J.D." Dunne: What are you tryin' to do to me, Buck?
- Buck: Can I help it if I have animal magnetism?
- John "J.D." Dunne: What?
- Buck: Animal magnetism. I read about it in a magazine. It-It's a power I got no control over. Once women get a sniff of it, what can I do?
- John "J.D." Dunne: Take a bath!
- [Josiah prepares to deal]
- Josiah: All right, gentleman, this game is called "Read 'em and Weep".
- John "J.D." Dunne: I'm out.
- Vin: I'm already weepin'.
- Josiah: This game is called... solitaire.
- Vin: What do you think made him run off like that?
- Chris Larabee: I don't know. He's runnin' from somethin'.
- Vin: Ain't we all.
- Ezra Standish: Listen, Mother, I've got this town believin' that they can trust me to protect it from people like you... Hell, from people like me.
- [Buck is questioning a prisoner]
- Buck: I can't hear a word this boy is sayin'. Can you?
- John "J.D." Dunne: Maybe you should try your animal maggotism on him, Buck.
- Buck: That's animal magnetism, boy! And you can plainly see it only works on women.
- Buck: Have a good trip!
- Maude Standish: Thank you. What's that smell? Like an animal or somethin'.
- [Maude sniffs Buck's coat]
- Maude Standish: P.U.!