- Carrie Christianson: I'll bet he told you not to gamble.
- Bret Maverick: When I was 6 years old, my pappy took my brother and me into a saloon. They were playing Red Dog, and Chuck-a-Luck and Wheel of Chance. "Son," he said, "this is what's called gambling. Stay away from it. Games like this, you don't stand a chance. As long as you live, stick to poker."
- [last lines]
- John Wesley Hardin: Is that the town where John Wesley Hardin was shot?
- Bart Maverick: News travels fast.
- John Wesley Hardin: Who done it?
- Bret Maverick: A fella by the name of Bret Maverick.
- John Wesley Hardin: Must be fast on the draw.
- Bart Maverick: [chuckles] Like lightning.
- John Wesley Hardin: I'm hankering to meet up with him.
- Bret Maverick: You are?
- John Wesley Hardin: Yeah. To prove that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. I am John Wesley Hardin.
- Bret Maverick: That's the way to Sundown, all right. Right down there.
- John Wesley Hardin: Yeah.
- Carrie Christianson: Wait a minute, you Maverick. I wanna talk to you. You're quite a man aren't you? You hit him when he wasn't even expecting it.
- Bret Maverick: If he'd been expecting it I don't think I'd have hit him.
- Carrie Christianson: I heard about it from half a dozen people. Some of them not even friends of Red's.
- [Sucker-punches Maverick in stomach]
- Carrie Christianson: And that's the way you did it, isn't it?
- Bret Maverick: That's not how it happened. You hit harder and I used my left.
- Carrie Christianson: Without any warning, he didn't even have a chance.
- Bret Maverick: After I got rid of his gun, he didn't.
- Carrie Christianson: Well next time he'll be ready, with a gun in his hand. And it just happens that he is the best shot in this whole county.
- Bret Maverick: How big a county is this?
- Carrie Christianson: Get a horse and find out. Take my pinto.
- Bret Maverick: You aren't worried about me, are you Carrie?
- Carrie Christianson: You happen to be a friend of my father's and I don't want my future husband killing you.
- Bret Maverick: Oh thanks. The trouble is, I can't leave.
- Carrie Christianson: Why not?
- Bret Maverick: Well I'm involved in a big business deal. Lot of money involved.
- Carrie Christianson: Oh, you put money ahead of everything, don't you?
- Bret Maverick: No. Well, there's breathing.
- Bret Maverick: Now that's not worthy of you, Bart. Your own brother's life was hanging in the balance, and all you're thinking about is $500.
- Bart Maverick: No, Bret, that's not all I'm thinking about.
- Bret Maverick: No, you're thinking about my five hundred, too.
- [first lines]
- Stagecoach Driver: Well, here we are, folks.
- Lady Passenger: Thank you. Driver, who is that girl forcing us off the road like that? We could've all been killed.
- Stagecoach Driver: Well, that's Carrie Christianson, ma'am. You know, the last time, she won the race.