Maverick (TV Series)

The Wrecker (1957)

Jack Kelly: Bart Maverick

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Quotes 

• Bart Maverick : Well, as Pappy used to say...

  Bret Maverick : Faint heart never filled a flush.

  Bart Maverick : That's right. Go ahead.

  Bret Maverick : I'm gonna have to leave my head with a loan shark to get the money.

  Bart Maverick : You'd rather be rich than ugly, wouldn't ya? Bid.

• Carthew : That's it, then. One of the small boats. I expect you know we may never be picked up.

  Bart Maverick : That's the case, there'll be something on my tombstone I never expected. Bart Maverick, Died at Sea.

• [first lines] 

  Clerk : Good evening, sir

  Bart Maverick : Good evening.

  Clerk : May I help you?

  Bart Maverick : I'm looking for a gentleman named Maverick. I hope you haven't lost him, he's an old friend.

  Clerk : May I ask your name?

  Bart Maverick : Maverick.

  Clerk : Well, of course, Mr. Maverick. Mr. Maverick is expecting you. He's in room 119.

  Bart Maverick : Thank you.

• [the Maverick Brothers consider whether to bid on the salvage rights on a shipwreck] 

  Bret Maverick : What do you think, Bart?

  Bart Maverick : Fifty-five hundred dollars is still a lot of money for rice and silk. Even if you're a hungry dressmaker.

• [last lines] 

  Carthew : How long have you known that boat was back there?

  Bart Maverick : Just long enough.

  [Paul gives Bart a Bank Draft for $25,000 and then Bart holds out his hand] 

  Bart Maverick : Paul.

  [Paul gives Bart the First Mate's log and Bart throws it overboard] 

• Bart Maverick : We might as well cut our own throats and save time.