Maverick (TV Series)

A Tale of Three Cities (1959)

Jack Kelly: Bart Maverick

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Quotes 

• Stephanie Malone : Is this all?

  Bart Maverick : You sound like you're the one who's being robbed.

  Stephanie Malone : What kind of poker player are you?

  Bart Maverick : I was considered quite good by the gentleman who used to own most of that $800.

  Stephanie Malone : I expected a lot more.

  Bart Maverick : If I'd have known you were waiting, I might've stayed in the game a little longer. But if you're disappointed, you could always return the money.

  Stephanie Malone : I will eventually. I'm considering this a loan.

  Bart Maverick : Then, I might warn you, my interest rates are high, six percent.

• Sheriff Murray : We've got dozens of shapely, young ladies in Gold Flats. It'd take more than a week to search 'em all.

  Bart Maverick : I can't think of a better way to spend the time.

• Bart Maverick : Stephanie, I've got a brother named Bret, who can outdraw me anytime he wants to, and he's known as the "Second Slowest Gun in the West."

• Stephanie Malone : Bart, I don't want you to get hurt!

  Bart Maverick : That must be why I'm so fond of you. We have so much in common.

• [first lines] 

  Bart Maverick : Eight hundred dollars. That's correct down to the last penny, sir. And thank you, gentlemen, for a most pleasant and, uh, profitable evening. Night.

• [last lines] 

  [after Bart is put back in jail to finish his sentence] 

  Stephanie Malone : Goodbye, Bart. I'll be back in seven days.

  Bart Maverick : Seven long days.

  Stephanie Malone : That's a whole week. Think how the interest will pile up.

• Mrs. Hannah Adams : You're an attorney?

  Bart Maverick : No, but I have many dealings with the law.

• Sheriff Murray : We got dozens of shapely young ladies in Gold Flats. It'd take more'n a week to search 'em all.

  Bart Maverick : I can't think of a better way to spend the time.

• Stephanie Malone : wouldn't lie to you.

  Bart Maverick : You'd shove a gun in my back and take all my money, but you wouldn't lie to me, huh? You'd better keep talking.

• Stephanie Malone : Now, keep lookin' straight ahead, and put your arms in the air, please.

  Bart Maverick : I'm glad you said "please".

• Bart Maverick : Just make me a deputy, that's all. And let me go along with your posse.

  Sheriff Hardy : Promise you won't try any foolish heroics?

  Bart Maverick : It's yours to lead, Sheriff, and mine but to follow. As far behind you as possible.

• Bart Maverick : Now look, Sheriff, a man wins in an honest game a cards and then goes out and gets robbed and you do nothin' about it. You run this town like that Mayor plays poker!

• Bart Maverick : I wouldn't like to see bloodshed on the streets of Brotherly. Especially if it was mine.