- Matson: What's to keep me alive after I've told you what you wanna know.
- Rip Fallon: Well, we're not killers.
- Matson: You got a short memory.
- McLean: Don't know when a morsel of food tasted so good.
- Ella Taylor: It's just delicious. Just like our Southern fried chicken.
- Simmons: It's rattlesnake meat, Ma'am.
- Bret Maverick: You weren't very smart. Harris knew you were trailing him. He led you away from the strike.
- Mart Fallon: We knew that. But Harris is dead and I'm alive. Now you figure out who's smart.
- Bret Maverick: Sam was doing it for his son. He wanted to leave him something.
- Linda Harris: He did. He left him without a father.
- Mart Fallon: The mine don't belong to your husband, anyway. It was on Indian land. From a practical standpoint, the gold is just there waiting for anyone who just want it... And we want it. I'll take that map, Mrs. Harris.
- Mart Fallon: I figured that maybe you could save us a lot of trouble.
- Bret Maverick: And you got plenty of that.
- [Indians attack the stagecoach depot]
- Bret Maverick: It could be all of us against 'em instead of just the three of you.
- Mart Fallon: I wouldn't give you a gun if they was looking down our throat.
- Bret Maverick: They are.
- Bret Maverick: Now, Simmons, suppose you tell me when the stage for the east is due?
- Simmons: Oh, so now you're squirmy. The shoe's on the other foot.
- Bret Maverick: As passenger agent here, you're supposed to give out that information.
- Simmons: So you can make sure how much time you got to get your dirty money.
- Bret Maverick: Where money's concerned, it can be dirty, dusty or soggy, as long as it's money.
- [last lines]
- [Bret hands Simmons a gold nugget]
- Bret Maverick: Here, keep this as a souvenir, might bring you luck. If nothing more, it'll remind you of quite a woman.
- [first lines]
- Sam Harris: You might as well stop skulking around back there, Fallon. There's plenty of coffee here for all of us.
- Linda Harris: What kind of a hypocrite are you?
- Bret Maverick: A man doesn't have to be a saint to give advice.
- Linda Harris: I just don't understand you at all.
- Bret Maverick: Things that don't make sense sometimes add up when you look back at them.
- Mart Fallon: Why don't you shut up?
- Simmons: Well, seein' as you ain't got no gun, I'll just ignore that.
- Bret Maverick: What about them?
- Mart Fallon: They ain't your problem.
- Bret Maverick: I'm makin' 'em my problem.
- Simmons: Well I'll be a three-toed sand lizard. You sure can't tell a grass snake from a sidewinder till you get bit.
- Bret Maverick: But there are a few things I'll put money on. Like a straight flush or a crooked mine.