- Brent Maverick: I'm digging your grave, friend, with five little spades.
- Sheriff Sam Shadley: It's your grave you've dug, Mister. Gambling's forbidden here in Sunburst. It's the law.
- Brent Maverick: But Sheriff, legally we're not in Sunburst. The stagecoach is a public area and my friends and I are just passing through.
- Sheriff Sam Shadley: Is that right, gents?
- Bart Maverick: Uh, yes Sheriff.
- Sheriff Sam Shadley: Who owns them cards?
- Bart Maverick: Uh, this gentleman.
- Brent Maverick: You snake!
- Joanne Moss: You see, Sunburst is the one untarnished town in the West. Gamblers, gunfighters, dancing girls are taboo.
- Brent Maverick: What do the people do for fun and games in Forbidden City?
- Joanne Moss: They don't. Our one saloon closes at six o'clock.
- Brent Maverick: Say no more. You better wall me up, Sheriff, before I contaminate the population.
- Brent Maverick: Tell me, Sheriff, what's this scoundrel guilty of? Dancing with his wife after dark?
- Sheriff Sam Shadley: Property damage, disturbin' the peace, public nuisance. He, uh, picked up a rock, and with full intent, broke a window.
- Brent Maverick: What does he get for that? Life?
- Andalucia Rubio: You are running away? Are you a coward, Senor?
- Brent Maverick: Now listen, I've been tipped off there's lynch talk in town. Folks think I was mixed up in that.
- Andalucia Rubio: Well, our mayor would never allow it. He is a brave man. He would die first.
- Brent Maverick: The order of our deaths doesn't interest me.
- Brent Maverick: It's all clear, Lucy. You can come out.
- Andalucia Rubio: I cannot. I have torn my nightgown.
- Brent Maverick: Well, you can't stay in there all night. You'll freeze.
- Andalucia Rubio: In Sunburst, it is legal to freeze, Senor, but not to accompany a man in half your nightgown.
- Brent Maverick: Well, I haven't got time to argue. I've got a little surprise planned for those characters. The last thing they expect to see is me. It'll give me a chance to sneak around, and take 'em from behind.
- Andalucia Rubio: Go with God, Senor... And bring me back the shirt and pants.
- [first lines]
- Sheriff of Town: Nobody's accused you of cheatin', Maverick.
- Brent Maverick: Then why are you running me out of town.
- Sheriff of Town: Frankly, your mistake was taking the whole town council to the cleaners. Punishment for that's the first stage out of town.
- Brent Maverick: Well, my Pappy once told me, "Never debate the innocence of a drinking woman or a man in jail."