Bret Maverick (TV Series)

The Yellow Rose (1981)

James Garner: Bret Maverick

Quotes 

• [Bret has accidentally won a cantankerous Chinese girl in a poker game] 

  Tom Guthrie : That's some rose you have there.

  Jack the Bartender : A yellow rose to be precise.

  Bret Maverick : If I can find that guy, he can have her back - thorns and all.

• [Bret sneaks back into his saloon] 

  Tom Guthrie : Well, well. Speak of the devil.

  Bret Maverick : Well, if you do, I'd appreciate it if you keep it down - way down.

• Tom Guthrie : Your horses are waitin' around the corner, but I still think it's too risky to make a break for it now.

  Bret Maverick : When it's your tail, I'll ask you.

• Bret Maverick : Kwai, don't you want to be free to come and go as you please?

  Kwai Bo Yung : At night, Maverick, one dreams of many things... sisters, parents, freedom... but always the sun soon returns and dreams must leave.

• Bret Maverick : So I think that a person like you would be just the one to break her into freedom gently, sort of one step at a time.

  Captain Slater : I don't know. I tamed my share of wild ones; can't say that I ever turned a tame one wild.