- Bob: Now look it, mister, I've been shootin' Indians for years. Every one I see, warlike or peaceable.
- Matt Dillon: Well, that's a good idea, shooting peaceable Indians?
- Bob: They're just so much meat to me.
- Cowboy: Shoot first and talk later, that's my motto.
- Matt Dillon: [with contempt] Men like you make me understand the Comanches.
- Matt Dillon: What's your name?
- Quint: In English it's Quint. Quint Asper.
- Matt Dillon: You're a half-breed, aren't you?
- Quint: I'm Comanche! My Pa was white. And the white man killed him. I've avenged him many times.
- Matt Dillon: Well, maybe it's time you stopped?
- Quint: Never.
- Quint: [Explaining to the Comanche chief why he wants to join the tribe] My mother's Comanche. White men murdered my Pa. The two I killed were just a start. I want to go on killing white men.
- Matt Dillon: [seeing Quint wearing cowboy duds] Well, Quint, you look pretty good in those clothes.
- Quint: I don't feel so good in them.
- Matt Dillon: Could get used to them.
- Quint: I was used to them once. Never again.
- Matt Dillon: Quint, you know we're your people, too. Just as much as the Comanches are. Maybe more. A man usually takes after his father.
- Matt Dillon: Quint, the next time you're faced with killing or not killing a white man, you're going to have to make a decision. It's gonna take some courage. The kind I don't think you've had to use before.
- Quint: Why should I change? I made my choice when they murdered my Pa.
- Matt Dillon: [thoughtful pause] Maybe.
- [last lines]
- Matt Dillon: Quint, I'll tell you somethin'. As long as I'm breakin' all these laws, I think I'm gonna break another one.
- Quint: How's that?
- Matt Dillon: I'm gonna buy an injun some firewater.
- Quint: Well, you're just bound and determined to get us into trouble, aren't ya?
- Matt Dillon: [laughing, slaps Quint on the back and they set out together for the Longbranch] C'mon.