- [first lines]
- Bart Maverick: [narrating] A big noisy boom-town is no place for a man who, like myself, enjoys a more peaceful and less complicated surrounding. But, when a man suddenly finds himself in alarming need of immediate opportunity, then the bigger the boom-town the better. And Virginia City was the biggest boomer of them all.
- Liz Bancroft: Bart, can't you stay for the wedding?
- Bart Maverick: As my old Pappy used to tell me, "Son, stay clear of weddings, 'casue one of them's liable to be your own."
- Placer Jack Mason: Well, there's no accountin' for female taste. Knew a woman in the mother lode country kept a rattlesnake for a pet.
- Bart Maverick: Well, I've met a couple of snakes in my time that kept a woman for a pet.
- Bart Maverick: Now, look, Fitz, you pay me and I'll disappear as fast as a white chip on a losing streak.
- Bart Maverick: Well, business in Virginia City has a strange way of turning into pleasure.
- Placer Jack Mason: Maverick, you're not just a card, you're the whole deck.