- Toothless: [the wagon has toppled after hitting a rock, throwing Mushy and Rabbit from the wagon] I think he's dead.
- Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters: If I was dead, you look like you've been buried six weeks.
- Rowdy Yates: I just don't like being pressed to do something I don't understand, that's all.
- Gil Favor: Don't worry. You will never understand it. 'Cos fate don't mean anything until after something has happened.
- Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters: Shoot, I've been stepped on worse by dance hall girls.
- [after his horse bucked and threw him, and then bailed him up]
- Orville: I declare, Brother Willie, you was a lot less aggravating when you was carrying guns, instead of a Bible.
- Joe Scarlet: There ain't no homemade pulpit preacher gonna spook old Rabbit, no sirree, Buddy. Ain't no two accidents makes a curse, they don't even make a good jinx.
- Brother William: Hatred is a shield, brother, a wall of fire to combat evil, a holocaust of Heaven to turn away the iron forks of Lucifer.
- Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters: I had a woman, she wasn't much to most, mister, just a painted and battered Saturday night girl, I guess, but, to me, she was my wife.