Maverick (TV Series)

The Witch of Hound Dog (1960)

Jack Kelly: Bart Maverick

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Quotes 

• Nancy Sutliff : You must be a terrible, bad man to have so much money... if it's all yours.

  Bart Maverick : Just a debt High Card Harris owed me.

  Nancy Sutliff : Oh?

  Bart Maverick : And I'm not such a bad man.

  Nancy Sutliff : Then quit a lookin' at my leg thatta way.

• Bart Maverick : You told me that trained bird was your Pappy.

  Nancy Sutliff : Well, in a way, it was. My Pappy's dead, sort of.

  Bart Maverick : Uh, sort of? Where I come from, a person's either dead or they ain't dead. It's as simple as that.

  Nancy Sutliff : It ain't simple, at all. Fact, it's the most confusing thing in the world. My old Pappy used to say, "If a person could understand the difference between what is dead and what ain't dead, you could be a real first class witch."

• Zack Sutliff : Mr. Maverick.

  Bart Maverick : Hum?

  Zack Sutliff : What do you aim to do with them... cards?

  Bart Maverick : Oh. Well, Zack, my old Pappy used to say, uh, "A man can stay out of trouble, learns to do something with his hands."

• [last lines] 

  Bart Maverick : And that is what happens to a man who lets ten thousand dollars lure him into the Great Smokies. Well, thank you, gentlemen, for a wonderful ga...

  [stops and stares at a stuffed crow] 

  Bart Maverick : Pappy?

• [first lines] 

  Gil : Well, guess your the big winner, Maverick.

  Bart Maverick : Lucky, Gil.

  [Bart pauses as it starts to thunder] 

  Gil : What's the matter? You, uh, sensitive to lightning?

  Bart Maverick : No, the last time I saw it, I was more than sensitive. About a month ago, back in Tennessee.

  Gil : Oh, did you get hit by it?

  Bart Maverick : Nope. By a girl.