- John Colton: In three years we've had a hundred tips from a hundred different crackpots for the reward. Their avarice was obvious, their information ridiculous.
- Yancy Derringer: Did I hear the word "reward"?
- John Colton: Yes - fifty thousand dollars.
- Yancy Derringer: Money is one of my hobbies, you know.
- John Colton: Your confidence is encouraging but, all the same, good luck along with it.
- Yancy Derringer: Not luck, Mr. Colton, prosperity.
- General Orville Stafford: I told your daddy time and time again - you'd never grow up to be anything but a cotton-pickin' rake-hellion like him... and I was right!
- Yancy Derringer: Thank you, sir. My daddy would be proud to hear you say those words.
- [last lines]
- [during the climatic battle, the confederate gold was dropped into the Mississippi River]
- Yancy Derringer: Maybe it's just as well. That money was for a cause that's lost. Maybe it's better that it's lost, too.