Jock Mahoney: Yancy Derringer

Quotes 

• John Colton : I'll never understand women as long as I live.

  Yancy Derringer : Isn't it fascinating trying?

• Yancy Derringer : You look like a man who just found out it is spring, and the salmon are swimming upstream.

  [Talking to John Colton] 

• Yancy Derringer : [narrating]  The pattern had become more clear. Spade Stuart, champion of The Oaks, had come to our town with a brace of pistols, powder and balls to terminate the career of John Colton in an affair of honor. That's the insidious thing about a duel; there is sometimes no honorable way of avoiding one.

• Yancy Derringer : Mr. Colton, be on time for every funeral but your own.

• Lavinia Lake : You hurt him!

  Yancy Derringer : It's a big improvement over being dead.

  Spade Stuart : You better keep your nose out of this, Mr. Derringer. This is an affair of honor.

  Yancy Derringer : This is an affair of murder.

• Yancy Derringer : Mr. Stuart, did you challenge me? Weren't you the one who says only a fool becomes angry; that an angry man challenges and loses the choice of weapons; that an angry man can't shoot very straight?

• [last lines] 

  Yancy Derringer : You had better be very careful of the company you keep, Miss Lake, because as you can see sometimes there is no justice.

  Lavinia Lake : When will we see you again?

  Yancy Derringer : Thirty days?

  John Colton : Mm-hmm.

• Miss Mandarin : Please, Yancy, for me, no trouble.

  Yancy Derringer : For you, anything.

  Miss Mandarin : Spade Stuart is a very dangerous man.

  Yancy Derringer : And you are a very dangerous woman. Very beautiful, untouchable, unattainable. You make it very hard on my nerves when I'm lonely.

• Spade Stuart : So you're Yancy Derringer, huh? You didn't invent the weapon, did you?

  Yancy Derringer : No, but I find that it comes in very handy.

  Spade Stuart : You have quite a reputation here in town. You're almost as famous as I am.

  Yancy Derringer : You're not famous, Mr. Stuart - just notorious.

• John Colton : Hang it all, Yancy, what do you do with a beautiful girl like that?

  Yancy Derringer : What would I do?

  John Colton : No! What would I do?

  Yancy Derringer : Well, I would start with a light lunch, light conversation, light wine and heavy complements; finish with a gay dinner, gay champagne, gay flowers, gay music and threats of suicide if she spurns you. That way she may forget her glove.

  John Colton : What does that mean?

  Yancy Derringer : That means tomorrow you can return it and start all over again. Sooner or later, something has to give.

  John Colton : But suppose she doesn't forget her glove?

  Yancy Derringer : Ha! Steal it.