- [declining the office of sheriff]
- Bret Maverick: Besides, I'm... I'm unreliable. I'm a terrible shot. And... And this I mean most sincerely... I have been, for as long as I can remember, a coward.
- Judge Hardy: Mr. Maverick. We'd like to make you a proposition.
- Bret Maverick: Always ready for a proposition, as long as there's money in it.
- Judge Hardy: There's money in it, but there are other important things in life.
- Bret Maverick: There are?
- Bret Maverick: Well, as my Pappy always said, "Worse crime a man can commit is to interrupt a poker game."
- Bret Maverick: As my Pappy always said, "If you know a man's weakness, you know the way to his heart."
- Melissa 'Missy' Maybrook: You don't act like a sheriff, at all.
- Bret Maverick: Well, glad to hear that. As my Pappy always said, "Try everything once and if you don't succeed, then become a lawman."
- Bart Maverick: Oh, I believe you. But my Pappy always used to say, uh, "Son, the next best thing to money is a... a man's name on the dotted line."
- Bret Maverick: And you forget he was also my Pappy and he said, "Sign nothing."
- [last lines]
- Billy Waker: Bimbo's the meanest of the lot. That's him, now. He always wants to try out the new sheriff.
- Bimbo: Hey, sheriff, come on out! Come on out and get it!
- Billy Waker: Go get him, sheriff.
- Bart Maverick: Professional gambler has a bad sound. It shouldn't, though, not if you approach it strictly as business the way I do.
- Bart Maverick: Times are tough, we've been forced to extend credit, bad policy! I'll probably be calling on him again.
- Billy Waker: Anytime, till we hang him.
- Billy Waker: You want me to fill you in on the, on the bad characters?
- Bret Maverick: Well, naturally, then I'll know where not to go. You understand?
- Telegraph Operator: "To Bart Maverick, Plaza Hotel, Denver, Colorado. Help. Signed Sheriff 'No-Kidding' Maverick." There's just one word in this message. It's gonna cost you the same as it would for ten.
- Bret Maverick: Then put in nine more helps.