- Paladin: You have many enemies why know who not why they are so. But like the village curs bark when their fellows do.
- Della White Cloud: Henry VIII, isn't it?
- Paladin: That's right.
- Della White Cloud: If you have no enemies, it is a sign that fortune has forgotten you.
- Paladin: So your education in Shakespeare has not been neglected.
- Ed Rance: Remember, Miss Della, I'm not going to hurt you. It's just that a man can go crazy held up in a canyon at night, stars splashing in the sky and nobody to talk to. It's just that a man can get lonely, achin' lonely. They think I'm some kind of animal but I'm not.
- Paladin: Rance, did you ever see what happens to a man who touches an Apache girl against her wishes? It takes him a week to die and him praying for death every minute.
- Clyde Barnes: Nonsense, she's just an Indian. Take her and the gold and let the rest of us go.
- Paladin: An old Apache law says: Never ask of another that which you are not willing to give. You are asking for a life. Are you willing to give yuors?