- Frankie French: Big talk. But you don't scare me, lover. Not if anger, greed, and curiosity is the only thing that gets you going.
- Bret Maverick: It's possible Pappy left something out.
- [first lines]
- Stagecoach Driver: Whoa.
- Frankie French: Well, well, so this is Ten Strike. San Francisco's got nothing to worry about.
- Bret Maverick: One thing to be said about traveling by stage. By the time you get there, you don't care where.
- Frankie French: Okay, let's see. Uh, sign says Faro City, 18 miles. How's that?
- Bret Maverick: Too close.
- Frankie French: Prairie Flats, 20 miles, then?
- Bret Maverick: Too far.
- Frankie French: Hold it, lover, you wouldn't be thinking about going back to Ten Strike.
- Bret Maverick: Wouldn't I?
- Frankie French: Now, look, you just can't go...
- Bret Maverick: Frankie. Frankie, my Pappy used to say, there's just about three reasons why most men do anything. greed, curiosity and anger. And I don't think he really meant most men because he was looking right at me when he said it.
- Bret Maverick: As my Pappy used to say, "A coward dies a thousand deaths. A brave man, only one." Thousand-to-one's a pretty good advantage.
- Bret Maverick: You know why I'm not gonna kill you?
- Vic Nolan: Why?
- Bret Maverick: You keep asking yourself that, and if you can't think of any reason, maybe I can't either.
- Frankie French: Guess I'd want the man I marry to be braver than you, anyway.
- Bret Maverick: He'd have to be.
- Mae Miller: No luck tonight?
- Bret Maverick: Why, ma'am, luck's got nothing to do with poker.
- Mae Miller: I was right, you are a professional.
- Bret Maverick: Just a serious student. It beats working.
- Mae Miller: The way you play, uh, that isn't work?
- Bret Maverick: It's a delicate point. I try not to think about it.
- [last lines]
- Bret Maverick: Frankie, there's a couple of things we gotta get settled. I am not proud and I'm not in love, especially with you. I have no intention of getting married and if I did... it wouldn't be to you. I mean...
- Frankie French: Anybody ever tell you, lover, you talk too much?
- Frankie French: I always buy hats when I'm confused.
- Bret Maverick: I believe it. I've seen some of 'em.
- Bret Maverick: I didn't say I had good sense.
- Bret Maverick: Let's get something straight, Frankie. I am not jealous. I'm not the jealous type. And if I was, I wouldn't be jealous of you.