- 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.