- Bret Maverick: I'm accepting your hospitality on one condition. That you're inviting Bret Maverick to eat with you.
- Cecil Mason: Sure thing, Mr. Maverick.
- Mrs. Pierce: Come on.
- Grady Lester: Hey, I thought Mavericks was cattle.
- Bret Maverick: Don't let that upset you, son. Back east, they got a whole state named Jersey.
- [Jim Mundy and his outlaw gang menacingly approach the Mavericks]
- Bart Maverick: What'll we do?
- Bret Maverick: Talk our way out.
- Bart Maverick: Talk? That bunch doesn't look like they're hunting for conversation.
- Bret Maverick: You want to shoot our way out?
- Bart Maverick: Uh, let's talk.
- Bret Maverick: Is this the gun my brother pulled on Aikens?
- Sheriff McPeters: That's the story. It's got quite a few notches on it.
- Bret Maverick: There's room for another. Which one is Aikens?
- Sheriff McPeters: And he's got quite a reputation with a gun.
- Bret Maverick: Sheriff, you'd be surprised how many men I know that have reputations with guns and no better than an ordinary cowhand.
- Sheriff McPeters: Well, how good are you?
- Bret Maverick: Well, I'm not too good, but then, I always like to think the next man's even worse.
- [Bret enters the room where Bart is recovering from Aiken's gunshot]
- Bret Maverick: What would you do if that was Russ Aikens instead of me at the door?
- Bart Maverick: Oh, the doctor left me a prescription.
- [Bart draws a gun from beneath his blanket]
- Bret Maverick: I'm looking for Russ Aikens.
- June Mundy: What makes you think he's in here?
- Bret Maverick: Well, you're an attractive woman. He's a man.
- Grady Lester: I still say Mavericks is cattle.
- Bart Maverick: [laughs] I'll tell ya something, son. I once knew a drummer from Kansas City. His name was Holstein.
- Bart Maverick: Bret, you're not planning anything old-fashioned, are you? You know, like, uh, getting revenge for an only brother?
- Bret Maverick: I'm not mad at anybody. They didn't shoot me.
- Bart Maverick: That's right. I certainly wouldn't do anything about it if it was the other way around.
- [first lines]
- [a boy sees Bret riding into town and runs around telling everyone]
- Grady Lester: Gee. He's here! He's here! Here he comes! He's here, everybody!
- [last lines]
- Doc Holliday: Can a man get a bite of food in this town?
- Cecil Mason: Well, I think we can fix you up, uh, mister, uh...?
- Doc Holliday: Holliday. Doc Holliday.
- Cecil Mason: Sheriff, another one of them Maverick boys is out here.
- Bret Maverick: Sheriff, you'd be surprised how many men I know that have reputations with guns and no better than an ordinary cowhand.
- Sheriff McPeters: Well, how good are you?
- Bret Maverick: Well, I'm not too good but then I always like to think the next man is even worse.
- Jim Mundy: You gents want to see me?
- Bret Maverick: No, no, live and let live is our way of thinkin'.
- Jim Mundy: Good. You keep thinkin' like that, you might live long enough to see your grandchildren.