- Bart Maverick: Lovely country you have here, Colonel.
- Bret Maverick: Uh, this is the first time I've seen the Professor since he was run outta Abilene for running a shell game.
- Bart Maverick: And he hasn't changed. He was almost thrown off the train for dealing marked cards.
- Bret Maverick: Well, as our dear old Pappy used to say, "If at first you don't succeed, try something else."
- Mark Dawson: No, I suppose, that from time to time each of us walks down temptation's path.
- Bret Maverick: Well, I've been known to run down it.
- Melanie Blake: Your ranch must be enormous, Colonel.
- Bret Maverick: Oh, I'd say from one end of the other as the crow flies... well, no, I shouldn't say that. I never found a crow that could fly that far.
- Bret Maverick: You think he's overdoing it?
- Bart Maverick: Trust me, Brother Bret. When I hire a crook, I hire the best.
- [first lines]
- Bartender: Don't blame me, Mr. Peters.
- Sheriff Charley Peters: I'm out of town a week and the whole saloon disappears.
- Bartender: I know, it's kind a out of the ordinary, but, so was the fella who done it.
- Sheriff Charley Peters: Why, what happened?
- Bartender: Well, everything was going right peacefully the other night, except for a few friendly fist-fights, when this fella come in, got the house into a poker game that lasted till morning. The house lost.
- Sheriff Charley Peters: To put it mildly.
- Bartender: Fella even had the gall to auction off all the fixtures.
- Sheriff Charley Peters: Did he get any bids on you?
- Bartender: It wasn't my fault, Mr. Peters.
- Sheriff Charley Peters: Well, who is this man? Was anyone bright enough to get his name?
- Bartender: Calls himself Maverick. Bret Maverick.
- Mark Dawson: Bret, look, look... Commodore Vandergriff, Augustus Belmont, don't you think that maybe you went just a mite too far.
- Bret Maverick: Mark, my old Pappy used to say, "If you're gonna drop names, drop 'em hard."
- [last lines]
- Bret Maverick: Just poison, Mr. Vandergriff, Just poison.
- Bart Maverick: You are so right, Colonel, sir.
- Melanie Blake: You better go now. It isn't nice for a gentleman to be seen in a lady's boudoir.
- John Flannery: I've never been in a lady's boudoir.