- Joshua Thayer: It's extremely kind of you, Mr. Maverick, but why do you bother? No one else does.
- Bret Maverick: Percentage... I'm a gambler.
- Joshua Thayer: Then you ought to be able to recognize ace-deuce when you see one.
- [Maverick picks up a pair of dice than show a one and a two and turns them over to reveal a five/six]
- Bret Maverick: There's always a natural at the bottom.
- Phineas King: Whats your business, Mr. Maverick, mining?
- Bret Maverick: Grass inspector.
- Crane: You inspect grass?
- Bret Maverick: The kind that's always greener in the other fellow's yard.
- Phineas King: By Jonathan, Mr. Maverick, I gotta hand it to you. You're a very smart poker player... Looking right down my throat, weren't you?
- Bret Maverick: I could almost see what you had for lunch, Mr. King.
- Bret Maverick: Mike, there's two things a gentleman doesn't discuss. The ladies he's known and his poker.
- Big Mike McComb: Now, where's your horse?
- Bret Maverick: At the livery stable. Why?
- Big Mike McComb: I'll get it. You go back and pack your things and meet me here in ten minutes. You're leaving town.
- Bret Maverick: Who says so?
- Big Mike McComb: I say so. I hate funerals and love postcards. Drop me one, I'll write back and tell you all about...
- [shots ring out as a nightrider tries to kill Maverick]
- Finnelly: Well, until we get a decision, we could meet the competition. Raise wages. Reduce hours...
- Phineas King: Reduce hours? Me? I will not. It's bad enough being robbed without giving money away. Besides, it's immoral.
- Finnelly: Immoral?
- Phineas King: Working ten hours a day. You can only sleep eight hours. What do they do with the other six?
- Phineas King: Remember that poker game where he raised me with the envelope?
- Richard Bixby: Yeah.
- Phineas King: What do you think he had in it?
- Richard Bixby: How would I know?
- Phineas King: No, you wouldn't. It was guts. Nothing but guts.
- [last lines]
- Big Mike McComb: Mind if I ride along with you, laddybuck?
- Bret Maverick: How far?
- Big Mike McComb: Wherever you're going.
- Bret Maverick: Any particular reason?
- Big Mike McComb: Well, wherever it is, something's bound to be happening. I just couldn't bear to miss it.
- Bret Maverick: Well. A man doesn't have to be too bright to figure that when he's dragged into an alley, beaten up and dumped into a ditch, somebody just doesn't want him around.
- [first lines]
- Hotel Clerk: [to guest checking in] Thank you, sir.
- Hotel Clerk: [to Bret] Don't bother to sign, we haven't anything.
- Bret Maverick: I'd like something comfortable in the front, with a view of the street.
- Hotel Clerk: We're completely out of accommodations. I suggest you try one of the miner's boarding houses.
- Bret Maverick: I wonder if you'd mind, uh, keeping this in a safe for me, please.
- Judge Joshua Thayer: Law's been around as long as human nature. Neither of 'em have ever changed very much.
- Big Mike McComb: Boy, that mob out there's meat eaters and you're the meat! You gotta get outta this town!
- Bret Maverick: I tried. They got the place surrounded.
- Big Mike McComb: Aw, you're crazy. He owns the town and five million dollars.
- Bret Maverick: Maybe so, but he still cheats. The way some men drink, because they have to.
- Bret Maverick: I never had a town pulled out from under me like that before. I don't like it.
- John Stoller: There are lots of other towns , and vengeance is a poor reason for doing anything. You weren't robbed, what are you going back for?
- Bret Maverick: Answers, Mr. Stoller. There's someone mighty anxious to get sir of me - I'd like to know who and why.
- Phineas King: [revealing Bret's poker hand] Oh, excuse me, I... uh... folding on three aces? Why, you're a very conservative poker player, Mr. Maverick.
- Bret Maverick: I just hate to be second best, Mr. King.
- Big Mike McComb: Did you check out?
- Bret Maverick: No, I guess I should have, but I got a serious vice: curiosity. I'd like to find out why anyone would want me outta town.
- Big Mike McComb: But you were at the desk?
- Bret Maverick: Just payin' two weeks rent in advance.
- Judge Joshua Thayer: Coulda gone far... if I'd learned to say yes to the right people and no... to the bottle. Trouble is, the right people are always the wrong people.
- Big Mike McComb: Now, you listen to me. I don't mind doin' your dirty work when there's a small profit to be made and nobody gets hurt too bad. But I ain't never murdered a man and I'll not startin' now - not for you or all the silver in this territory!