Maverick (TV Series)

The Cats of Paradise (1959)

James Garner: Bret Maverick

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Quotes 

• Bret Maverick : Do you ever notice how nice the evening smells when there's money in the air?

• Bret Maverick : Jack, as my old Pappy used to say, "A man who sticks his head in the sand, makes an awfully good target."

• [last lines] 

  Bret Maverick : As my old Pappy used to day, "You can be a gentleman, and not still forget all you know about self-defense"

• [first lines] 

  [Bret stops a woman about to jump off a pier] 

  Bret Maverick : What are you trying to do? The tides out, ma'am. You couldn't drown in that Sacramento mud if you had a cannonball under each arm.

  [she starts to cry and goes into Bret's arms] 

  Bret Maverick : Well, don't cry. Please. Well, th-that's better. Now what brought you to that. Men?

  Modesty Blaine : No, sir. Cats.

• Bret Maverick : As my old Pappy used to say, "A fox isn't sly, he just can't think any slower."

• Bret Maverick : Don't gabble, Gimble, get him!

• Mayor Uli Bemus : [after Modesty "faints"]  She must'a took a spell.

  Bret Maverick : Uh, she'd take anything that wasn't nailed down.

• Bret Maverick : Better death than dishonor.

  Mayor Uli Bemus : Why?

  Bret Maverick : Why? I'm not quite sure.

• Bret Maverick : No, I'm serious. You made a bad choice, Captain. I'm no sailor, I'm a businessman.

  Captain Puget : In what line?

  Bret Maverick : Well, right now I'm in cats.

  Captain Puget : Cats, is it? Ever meet one with nine tails, bucko, me lad?