- [Bret tries to avoid becoming a jury member in a murder trial]
- Bret Maverick: I have no interests in this town. No business, no nothing.
- Sheriff: What are you doing in town?
- Bret Maverick: Playing cards.
- Sheriff: How do you make a living?
- Bret Maverick: Playing cards.
- Sheriff: Then you got a business. Let's go.
- Lucy Sutter: Billy didn't murder John Sloan, Jabe. I believe him. Shouldn't you believe him, too?
- Jabe Hallock: I should. Yes, I should.
- Blaine: I'd like to point out that insults aren't shooting licenses.
- Jabe Hallock: Seems you don't need no license to go shooting off your mouth.
- [to avoid a deadlocked jury, Maverick bets he can prove Pike's logic is flawed using a card trick]
- Pike: Five pat hands in these 25 cards? No. No, I don't.
- Bret Maverick: I'll bet another 500, and Bill Gregg's life, that there is.
- Price: Oh, wait a second, Maverick. You're a gambler and can risk your cash, but you can't put up a man's life against...
- Pike: Look, hold on. Wait a minute. Wait. This is between Maverick and me. He named it. What do you mean, Gregg's life?
- Pike: You're gonna make five pat hands out of these 25 cards? That's straights, flushes, full houses?
- Bret Maverick: That's right.
- Pike: Can I shuffle 'em again?
- Pike: Maverick, how many times can five pat hands be made out of any 25 cards?
- Bret Maverick: Practically every time. I call it Maverick Solitaire.
- Price: For a while there, I thought we never would reach a verdict.
- Bret Maverick: Well, hanging the jury would've better than hanging Billy.
- [last lines]
- Pike: Well, you made me look pretty foolish.
- Bret Maverick: I'm sorry, Pike. I was just betting that you were a pretty good man. And a fair one. How about a little poker? I can get back to business now.
- [first lines]
- Bill: Hold it there! Drop that gun!
- Lem: I ought to kill you right now, holding that gun on us.
- Bill Gregg: Well, I wouldn't have gunned you.
- Lem: Sure not. Bill, take a look in the house.
- John Sloan: didn't pay that debt for a good reason. Besides, it's run over so long a period of time, it's outlawed. It's uncollectable by law!
- Bill Gregg: That's book law. There's other laws should hold a man.
- Sheriff: I wonder if you'd mind walkin' over to the jail with me.
- Bret Maverick: What's the charge?
- Sheriff: Murder. Well, you didn't do it. Young fella over there's in trouble, seems to think you can help him out of it.
- Bret Maverick: Well, I don't know, I'm in a bit of trouble here myself.
- Sheriff: Yours can keep, his can't.