- Wishbone: What are you doing getting all doodled up? You ain't pretending you know any girls.
- Mushy: Oh no, Mr Wishbone. I got cousins in town. My Ma said if we come through Buffalo Wells that I should look up Cousin Laverne and Cousin Posey.
- Wishbone: You're getting all doodled up and shaved just to see a couple of cousins?
- Mushy: Well, Cousin Laverne is an important female. She's an actress.
- Wishbone: No. Oh, you're telling me a windie, Mushy. There isn't any theatre in Buffalo Wells.
- Mushy: Oh, yes, you must be mistaken, Mr Wishbone, begging your pardon. But she acts in a big theatre called the Longhorn.
- Wishbone: You poor beknighted idiot. That's a saloon.
- Big Tim Sloan: I've been knocking around for a lot of years and most times without two coins to rattle against each other in my pocket. All my life I wanted a place like this and now I've got it, as fancy and shiny as any place West of Chicago. And I ain't taking any chances on losing it, not the smallest, slightest chance. Posey can go any time she wants to, after I'm squared with the bank.
- Jim Quince: Well, look, Boss, when a man works like a span of mules all day, why, well, he's entitled to some decent grub.
- Wishbone: You wouldn't think that growed men would make such a fuss over not getting biscuits one time.
- Laverne Mushgrove: You know, for the first time in my life, I want to be like all the women I despised. Well, maybe I didn't really despise them. Maybe I just thought I could never be like them. Well, now I know I can.
- Posie Mushgrove: But I ain't gonna be a kid forever. Two, maybe three years. Then I'm coming back to look for you. And a man who travels with 2 or 3 thousand cattle ain't gonna be very hard to find.
- Laverne Mushgrove: Cousin, when you get back home, you tell them about me. Remember, I was an actress once, and a good one.
- [Harkness leaves the room]
- Laverne Mushgrove: Even if I was the only one who believed it.