Maverick (TV Series)

War of the Silver Kings (1957)

James Garner: Bret Maverick

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Quotes 

• Joshua Thayer : It's extremely kind of you, Mr. Maverick, but why do you bother? No one else does.

  Bret Maverick : Percentage... I'm a gambler.

  Joshua Thayer : Then you ought to be able to recognize ace-deuce when you see one.

  [Maverick picks up a pair of dice than show a one and a two and turns them over to reveal a five/six] 

  Bret Maverick : There's always a natural at the bottom.

• Phineas King : Whats your business, Mr. Maverick, mining?

  Bret Maverick : Grass inspector.

  Crane : You inspect grass?

  Bret Maverick : The kind that's always greener in the other fellow's yard.

• Phineas King : By Jonathan, Mr. Maverick, I gotta hand it to you. You're a very smart poker player... Looking right down my throat, weren't you?

  Bret Maverick : I could almost see what you had for lunch, Mr. King.

• Bret Maverick : Mike, there's two things a gentleman doesn't discuss. The ladies he's known and his poker.

• Big Mike McComb : Now, where's your horse?

  Bret Maverick : At the livery stable. Why?

  Big Mike McComb : I'll get it. You go back and pack your things and meet me here in ten minutes. You're leaving town.

  Bret Maverick : Who says so?

  Big Mike McComb : I say so. I hate funerals and love postcards. Drop me one, I'll write back and tell you all about...

  [shots ring out as a nightrider tries to kill Maverick] 

• [last lines] 

  Big Mike McComb : Mind if I ride along with you, laddybuck?

  Bret Maverick : How far?

  Big Mike McComb : Wherever you're going.

  Bret Maverick : Any particular reason?

  Big Mike McComb : Well, wherever it is, something's bound to be happening. I just couldn't bear to miss it.

• Bret Maverick : Well. A man doesn't have to be too bright to figure that when he's dragged into an alley, beaten up and dumped into a ditch, somebody just doesn't want him around.

• [first lines] 

  Hotel Clerk : [to guest checking in]  Thank you, sir.

  Hotel Clerk : [to Bret]  Don't bother to sign, we haven't anything.

  Bret Maverick : I'd like something comfortable in the front, with a view of the street.

  Hotel Clerk : We're completely out of accommodations. I suggest you try one of the miner's boarding houses.

  Bret Maverick : I wonder if you'd mind, uh, keeping this in a safe for me, please.

• Big Mike McComb : Boy, that mob out there's meat eaters and you're the meat! You gotta get outta this town!

  Bret Maverick : I tried. They got the place surrounded.

• Big Mike McComb : Aw, you're crazy. He owns the town and five million dollars.

  Bret Maverick : Maybe so, but he still cheats. The way some men drink, because they have to.

• Bret Maverick : I never had a town pulled out from under me like that before. I don't like it.

  John Stoller : There are lots of other towns , and vengeance is a poor reason for doing anything. You weren't robbed, what are you going back for?

  Bret Maverick : Answers, Mr. Stoller. There's someone mighty anxious to get sir of me - I'd like to know who and why.

• Phineas King : [revealing Bret's poker hand]  Oh, excuse me, I... uh... folding on three aces? Why, you're a very conservative poker player, Mr. Maverick.

  Bret Maverick : I just hate to be second best, Mr. King.

• Big Mike McComb : Did you check out?

  Bret Maverick : No, I guess I should have, but I got a serious vice: curiosity. I'd like to find out why anyone would want me outta town.

  Big Mike McComb : But you were at the desk?

  Bret Maverick : Just payin' two weeks rent in advance.