- C. Spencer Scott - The Earl of Durango: Amazing to find such glittering beauty in such drab surroundings.
- Lorena: You're going right over my head.
- C. Spencer Scott - The Earl of Durango: In my own lighthearted way, I was merely trying to express my, um, admiration.
- Lorena: I know what you admire. You scratch an earl, you still find a man.
- Klemo: There's room for two more on that tree out there, and three ain't a crowd.
- C. Spencer Scott - The Earl of Durango: Your subtlety staggers me.
- Klemo: Sure looks like Jason killed himself in cold blood.
- Johnny Yuma: In the back?
- Sheriff Boyd: It was a suicide, Mister, that's what it was. Plain suicide.
- [All the townsfolk in Dead Oak pop. 422 laugh heartily and happily]
- Johnny Yuma: What do you follow him around for?
- Otis Rumph: Well, Reb, I'll tell yer. I misspent my youth getting saddle sores on somebody else's cattle drive. I spent two years on $20 a month as a Texas Ranger. And two years shooting people I wasn't mad at during the war. Now you put it all together and I figure I don't have such a bad break with the Earl.
- Johnny Yuma: You are the Sheriff, aren't you?
- Sheriff Rocky Spiropolous: Sorry, kid, this is my lunch hour.
- Otis Rumph: C Spencer Scott, the most prolific writer of lucrative mystery thrillers of the American West.
- C. Spencer Scott - The Earl of Durango: Not the most flattering likeness, is it?
- Johnny Yuma: Sorry, never heard of you. Don't read junk!
- C. Spencer Scott - The Earl of Durango: Junk? Well, then, I'll wager you never read the Philosophical Works I wrote in England.
- Johnny Yuma: Nope!
- C. Spencer Scott - The Earl of Durango: I authored a number of texts, widely acclaimed but narrowly circulated. Do you follow me?