Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series)

The Bostonian (1958)

Richard Boone: Paladin

Quotes 

• Paladin : Henry's an old friend of mine... We once had the same tailor.

• Henry Prince : Does it mean, when you helped me, you were just handing out a free sample of your work?

  Paladin : No, I helped you because you were badly outnumbered and because we once had the same tailor.

• Clint Bryant : I'm gonna run Henry Prince off that land. I suppose that means I'm gonna see more of you.

  Paladin : I suppose so.

• Paladin : Henry, anyone can learn to shoot cans. A man's heart is larger but it's a more difficult target.

  Clint Bryant : Why so?

  Paladin : It takes a certain kind of nerve to draw on another human being. No offence meant but I doubt you have it. All your training and background are against you.

• Paladin : You must always learn to count your shots.

• Clint Bryant : I couldn't pull the trigger.

  Paladin : I'm not surprised. Before you came West, the most violent thing you'd ever been involved in was a pillow fight in a Harvard dormitory.

• Henry Prince : We'll have to stop them.

  Paladin : It's too late for that. Now all we can do is get ahead of the herd and turn them when they tire.

• Paladin : You're a beautiful woman, Mrs Prince, a beautiful woman and a talented actress. But you're also a very demanding wife. You don't like violence but you also don't like to give in. You want to fight but you don't want anyone to get hurt.

  Gloria Prince : Is that all?

  Paladin : You married Henry because he was cultured and charming. And now you're impatient because he can't be hard and ruthless. You don't want him to be like me. You want to use me and yet you have no respect for my profession. You're a very difficult woman to please.

  Gloria Prince : The issue is, Mr Paladin, that a band of ruffians are tormenting us immorally and illegally. We have engaged you to protect us. And instead you evade responsibility by criticising us by making us think we are wrong.

• Henry Prince : Do you really think she's leaving?

  Paladin : That sounded like it.

• Henry Prince : There is one more thing I can do. I'll see that you're not barred from the Stock Exchange Club.

  Paladin : Don't bother, Henry. I'm the president of the San Francisco Chapter.