- Bart Maverick: You're lucky. If that slug had creased your skull just a quarter of an inch deeper, you wouldn't be talking right now.
- Gus Tellson: Pays to have a hard head.
- [first lines]
- Bart Maverick: [to his horse] That waterhole must be around here somewhere.
- [the horse neighs]
- Bart Maverick: Well anybody could make a mistake in this country. I just picked the wrong bunch of rocks, that's all.
- [last lines]
- Bart Maverick: I know what it meant, Caprice. He promised you a lot of things.
- Caprice Rambeau: Pretty clothes, places like New Orleans and San Francisco. He promised to take me away from these lonely mountains.
- Bart Maverick: I understand.
- Caprice Rambeau: How could you. I didn't understand myself, until today.
- Bart Maverick: You're a brave girl.
- Caprice Rambeau: Do you know when I first began to understand? When you kissed me. It was so different... so gentle. I never felt that way with Rod before. Would you kiss me again?