- Jimmy O'Riley: It's the first time I ever took a bath in middle of week!
- Paladin: There's a woman at the start of all great things or so says the French poet Lamartine.
- Jimmy O'Riley: I ain't ready to get married yet.
- Helen Abajinian: You let me dance for, I change your mind.
- Jimmy O'Riley: You so much as move an elbow I'll pull this hat down right over my head.
- Helen Abajinian: You are afraid of me?
- Jimmy O'Riley: Women!
- Paladin: Heaven's best gift, the most delightful of God's creatures. Shelley. We are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.
- Paladin: Ancient Armenia was at the crossroads of the world. The origins of the dances is lost in antiquity, a flavour of Greece, Persia, perhaps even of Minoa. But those dances, O'Reilly, are a language, the most compelling and understandable universal language of mankind.
- Paladin: You would let your daughter bring to her marriage, her bedding and her clothing. Such generosity should be written on the side of Mount Ararat for all to see.
- [And so begin the negotiations for the dowry]
- Paladin: HeyBoy, I haven't had any good shish kebabs in years, rice pilaf, baklava, Armenian cooking, HeyBoy. Armenian people among the world's finest.
- Samuel Abajinian: Marriage to a moral man has shielded you from evil. I have travelled. Once in Fresno I have seen- Away! You will check, the filth, the things I have seen.
- Marga: And how does a moral man see so much?
- Jimmy O'Riley: You're all so high-tailed smart, huh. Maybe you know wine, but you don't know ranching. If you're all so fired smart, how come you ain't got a herd of cattle bringing you in money for land and feed you're just throwing away.
- Samuel Abajinian: You tell me, Abajinian, how to manage land? A child wises up Abajinian.
- Jimmy O'Riley: This child here was running a thousand acres spread when he was nineteen, and making money out of feeding cattle.
- Samuel Abajinian: A cowboy, cowboy. Abajinian is no cowboy.
- Jimmy O'Riley: You don't have to be a cowboy to know that good beef out here draws- How much?
- Paladin: 8 to 10 cents a pound.
- Samuel Abajinian: Five acres of vines and two of trees.
- Paladin: Ten and five with a house, fifty sheep, ten goats, six carrying milk.
- Samuel Abajinian: Agreed. Agreed. STOP! You are ruining a poor man.