- [Mary Lou confronts Kate in her brothel]
- Kate Hanrahan: You're not long on manners, are you, Springer?
- Mary Lou Springer, Newspaper Editor: Not when I'm after something.
- Kate Hanrahan: Well, if you're looking for something, I'm not interviewing today, or haven't you given up on being a man yet?
- Mary Lou Springer, Newspaper Editor: Just as soon as you live up to to being called a woman - or is 'Katherine the Great' a nickname you like?
- [Mary Lou and Kate discover they have a common cause fighting for women's suffrage]
- Mary Lou Springer, Newspaper Editor: You don't suppose....?
- Kate Hanrahan: Well, a pair of queens draw more than an ace.
- [Bret has accidentally won a cantankerous Chinese girl in a poker game]
- Tom Guthrie: That's some rose you have there.
- Jack the Bartender: A yellow rose to be precise.
- Bret Maverick: If I can find that guy, he can have her back - thorns and all.
- Sheriff Mitchell Dowd: Gentlemen, I am surprised at you, really I am. Where are your brains? We can't afford to give women the vote. Do you realize the stampede that could cause? Why this whole town - hell, this whole territory - would be overrun by women!
- Sweetwater Townsmen: Yea! Hurray!
- Kate Hanrahan: [to Bret] Well, you know how funny people are about things. You have a girl and it's shameless. I have one and its business.
- [Bret sneaks back into his saloon]
- Tom Guthrie: Well, well. Speak of the devil.
- Bret Maverick: Well, if you do, I'd appreciate it if you keep it down - way down.
- Tom Guthrie: Your horses are waitin' around the corner, but I still think it's too risky to make a break for it now.
- Bret Maverick: When it's your tail, I'll ask you.
- Bret Maverick: Kwai, don't you want to be free to come and go as you please?
- Kwai Bo Yung: At night, Maverick, one dreams of many things... sisters, parents, freedom... but always the sun soon returns and dreams must leave.
- Captain Slater: I've been fightin' the Indians since I was twelve. Lost my parents in a raid, had no place to go after that, so I cut my hair short and joined the Union army. Even fought with General Grant before he fell into politics. I imagine if I hadn't been wounded, they might never have found out; I'd be a full colonel now. You should have seeen that army doctor's face.
- Mary Lou Springer, Newspaper Editor: Damn!
- Ma Springer: Judging from the lack of noise in here, I venture you didn't win.
- Mary Lou Springer, Newspaper Editor: Somewhere out there are 57 very uncivilized souls. And now, I suppose, you get to say, "I told you so."
- Ma Springer: Been considerin' it. But then it occured to me to say something a touch more useful, say like, "There's always next year."
- Bret Maverick: So I think that a person like you would be just the one to break her into freedom gently, sort of one step at a time.
- Captain Slater: I don't know. I tamed my share of wild ones; can't say that I ever turned a tame one wild.