- Beauregarde Maverick: Don't you know these three are wanted for murder? They've never hit a town or a bank or a payroll without leaving a bereaved relative or two.
- Sally Flood: But they're going to do something to you as soon as the storm let's up.
- Beauregarde Maverick: I know. That's why I'm praying for bad weather.
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- Judge John Scott: Whoa. I'll say goodbye, now. Yonder's the cut-off to Denver.
- Beauregarde Maverick: I can't make it out yet, Judge.
- Judge John Scott: C'mon.
- Beauregarde Maverick: Mrs. Flood, your hospitality is one thing. Your niece is another. I don't intend to take advantage of either.
- Beauregarde Maverick: I've been outbluffed by some of the best poker players in the country, but they couldn't even sit at the same table with our lovely landlady.
- Beauregarde Maverick: Don't think too long, Judge. There's blue sky out there, that means black crepe down here.
- Beauregarde Maverick: I can't decide, Your Honor, whether you shine more brilliantly as a criminal lawyer or as a criminal.
- Emery: When the time comes, gambler, I'm gonna take care of you personally.
- Beauregarde Maverick: I'll imagine you'll have to draw straws.
- Judge John Scott: [to Martha] If you let him kill me, you will never get a penny.
- Chet Whitehead: Look at it this way, Judge. We're just cuttin' down on legal fees.
- Judge John Scott: No qualms of conscience?
- Beauregarde Maverick: Oh, I can be very broad-minded when my life is concerned.