- Ruth Parke: Why do they call you "The Baron"?
- John Mannering 'The Baron': Cattle baron, honey, cattle baron. To tell you the truth it was a cattle ranch started by my grandfather in Texas. That's the Baron brand up there. The nickname stuck.
- Ruth Parke: Texas, you say?
- John Mannering 'The Baron': Three hundred miles from Dallas and two hundred thousand acres.
- Savannah: Mr. Mannering, please don't let him do this thing.
- John Mannering 'The Baron': My father was a man who had probably more friends than any other man in Texas and he used to say when you love somebody, really love them, you not only let them do what they want to do, you try to help them.
- John Mannering 'The Baron': "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." They're magnificent... magnificent symbols of disaster.
- Olmira: Not all, John. The white rider - some believe that it is supposed to represent Christ.
- John Mannering 'The Baron': Red horse, red rider is war; black horse, black rider is famine; pale horse, pale rider is death.
- Olmira: Do you know the story behind them? How this man Kronheim made them for Ivan the Terrible; when he delivered them at the Winter Palace, the czar refused to pay for them. Kronheim swore that he would give life to the horsemen and that he would destroy all Russia.
- John Mannering 'The Baron': Within weeks the whole country was swept by war, famine and death.
- Verdon: Is that really true?
- John Mannering 'The Baron': Probably not, but an antique doubles in value if its got a good story to go with it.
- John Mannering 'The Baron': You're a very brave gent. You have two guns, plus a knife, plus a big mouth - that all adds up to being all yellow!
- Miros: You're calling Miros a coward?
- John Mannering 'The Baron': Coward, yellow, cheat, snake in the grass - you name it!
- Miros: Nobody calls Miros a coward!
- John Mannering 'The Baron': I do.
- Miros: You win. You take the Four Horsemen. Wine, women, big cars - who needs it.
- John Mannering 'The Baron': I do.
- [last lines]
- Savannah: Well, we've done it.
- John Mannering 'The Baron': Yes, we did.
- Savannah: For war, rebel guns... red horse, red rider - war.
- John Mannering 'The Baron': Savannah, there are those who believe that white horse, white rider is hope.