- Bart Maverick: Well, as Pappy used to say...
- Bret Maverick: Faint heart never filled a flush.
- Bart Maverick: That's right. Go ahead.
- Bret Maverick: I'm gonna have to leave my head with a loan shark to get the money.
- Bart Maverick: You'd rather be rich than ugly, wouldn't ya? Bid.
- Carthew: That's it, then. One of the small boats. I expect you know we may never be picked up.
- Bart Maverick: That's the case, there'll be something on my tombstone I never expected. Bart Maverick, Died at Sea.
- [first lines]
- Clerk: Good evening, sir
- Bart Maverick: Good evening.
- Clerk: May I help you?
- Bart Maverick: I'm looking for a gentleman named Maverick. I hope you haven't lost him, he's an old friend.
- Clerk: May I ask your name?
- Bart Maverick: Maverick.
- Clerk: Well, of course, Mr. Maverick. Mr. Maverick is expecting you. He's in room 119.
- Bart Maverick: Thank you.
- [the Maverick Brothers consider whether to bid on the salvage rights on a shipwreck]
- Bret Maverick: What do you think, Bart?
- Bart Maverick: Fifty-five hundred dollars is still a lot of money for rice and silk. Even if you're a hungry dressmaker.
- [last lines]
- Carthew: How long have you known that boat was back there?
- Bart Maverick: Just long enough.
- [Paul gives Bart a Bank Draft for $25,000 and then Bart holds out his hand]
- Bart Maverick: Paul.
- [Paul gives Bart the First Mate's log and Bart throws it overboard]
- Bret Maverick: Well, we can't pick and choose, brother Bart. We have to take what the devil sends us.
- Bret Maverick: Well, I thought I needed you to help me swing the deal, but I did it myself with a pair of aces and a fair knowledge of the grand game of poker.
- Bret Maverick: know, Bart... look, we've been broke before, but not dead. Why don't we just forget the whole thing?