Maverick (TV Series)

Brasada Spur (1959)

Jack Kelly: Bart Maverick

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Quotes 

• Belle Morgan : You're not proposing to me, are you?

  Bart Maverick : Oh, no. I promised Pappy I wouldn't wed till I was 38.

  Belle Morgan : That's good. Because I promised myself I wouldn't marry again at all.

• Belle Morgan : But I'm not offering you charity, Bart. What I'm offering you is a job. A real man-sized job for a real man.

  Bart Maverick : Before I left home, my old Pappy said, "Always remember, son. The two greatest evils are hard liquor and hard work."

• [last lines] 

  Belle Morgan : Why, Colonel Maverick, what a surprise. Are we both going to New Orleans?

  Bart Maverick : We certainly are.

• Bart Maverick : I was just making a point.

  [after impulsively kissing her - for the very first time] 

  Belle Morgan : What point?

  Bart Maverick : You didn't stay out here in the West because of the view. You stayed out here because here because you're not just another woman in King City. You're kind of an uncrowned queen - and you like it.

  Belle Morgan : And because you're a man you don't like it.

  Bart Maverick : [shakes head 'no']  Because I'm a man, I don't like anything that makes you any less a woman.

  [deep, steady stares; then extended, passionate embrace and kiss leading into fade-out, accompanied by sweet violin score] 

  Bart Maverick : .

• Bart Maverick : I rarely bluff.

• [first lines] 

  Terry McKenna : Mr. Elgree. Mr. Rufus Elgree.

  Barnes : Welcome to Kings City, Colonel Maverick and the Bella Union Hotel, where every guest is a king.

  Bart Maverick : Well, it's fine.

  Barnes : Something in a suite or a bedroom convenient to a bath?

  Bart Maverick : Bedroom will be all right. The barber shop?

  Barnes : Just across the lobby, Colonel Maverick.

  Bart Maverick : Thank you. You can just have my bags sent up to the room.

  Barnes : Yes, indeedy. Boy. Boy.