- Dandy Jim Buckley: By the way, before asking, uh, what you were doing in the river, you got any money?
- [Maverick searches his pockets and discovers he's been robbed]
- Dandy Jim Buckley: You too, Brutus.
- Bret Maverick: Why pick on me?
- Dandy Jim Buckley: Well, there was no one else here I could trust. So, I was on my way to St. Louis to get my... my cousin, whom I don't trust very much either, when I ran into you. And your greatest weakness, my friend, is that you're completely trustworthy.
- Dandy Jim Buckley: I'll take that gold, friend Maverick. Try anything and you'll stop a bullet.
- Bret Maverick: Buckley, you're a crook and a cheat and a double-crosser, but you're not a killer. You could no more squeeze that trigger than quit marking decks.
- Bret Maverick: Aw, cheer up, friend Buckley. We still have $2000 apiece and a clear conscience.
- Dandy Jim Buckley: A clear conscience? We just lost $36,000! I've pulled some pretty mean tricks in my day, but I've never stooped to such foul, nauseating...
- [first lines]
- Bret Maverick: [narrating] in 1875, gold was discovered in the Black Hills of Dakota... and a great stampede of gold-hungry men was started... thousands coming up the wide Missouri by steamboat. Dance-hall girls and entertainers... men who'd spent their last dime on a new suit and a steamboat ticket. Men with strong backs... and men with a flair for making money with three walnut shells.
- [last lines]
- Bret Maverick: [to Dandy Jim who is in a jail cell] We'll leave your share with the Marshal.
- Dandy Jim Buckley: No, no. You can't do this to me, I was only trying to help.
- Bret Maverick: Your share minus a thousand for Noah.
- Dandy Jim Buckley: Maverick, I'm your friend. Didn't I pull you from the river? Didn't I let you in on the gold? Didn't I get you tossed into jail so you could...? Good heavens. What am I saying?
- Madame Pompey: Hey! I didn't know you were a drinker.
- Bret Maverick: Well, I'm not, doesn't keep me from buyin' for my friends
- Bret Maverick: There was only one thing wrong. The meadow had sprouted a full-size town.
- Dandy Jim Buckley: Well, don't look at me like that, how was I to know?
- Bret Maverick: That's what I'm wondering.