- Bret Maverick: A highwayman, and you know him socially?
- Dutch Wilcox: Well, I ought to, I've looked down the barrel a that gun enough.
- Bart Maverick: A manure wagon behind three cow buffalo could do a better job than that spine wrecker.
- Bart Maverick: You know, if Paul Revere rode any one of those bangtails, we'd be walking around today in red coats.
- [first lines]
- Dutch Wilcox: That's right you flop-eared hay-burners. Show off for the new owners, huh? Get all the big ones.
- [last lines]
- Rumsey Plumb: A railroad.
- Bret Maverick: Now, don't take it too hard.
- Rumsey Plumb: I dreamed of this all my life. Do you know how much gold dust they carry in one railroad express car?
- Bart Maverick: Well, it--it's that were not sure that, uh, rolling stock and rolling stones are the ideal combination.
- Polly Goodin: Could you be tempted, gentlemen, to... to sell his stage line?
- Bart Maverick: Uh, well, if the, uh, temptation was in the form of cash, we never fight that.
- Bret Maverick: Just how sorely are we being tempted?
- Polly Goodin: I can't be found with a gentleman in my room.
- Dutch Wilcox: Shucks, ma'am, everybody in town knows I ain't no gentleman.
- Rumsey Plumb: [to Brett Maverick] Ya know Maverick, I've been shooting locks off express boxes for twenty years. That's the first one that shot back.