- Tex: Packin' his gun just about right. You oughtta watch your step, Simon.
- Simon Getty: When I back down from a sprout, that'll be the day.
- Tom Brewster: [Conversation with his horse upon seeing a campfire] Well, if that ain't the most cheerful sight I ever did see. Might get us a little something to eat, maybe some water, might even let us bed down for the night. Hello! I guess they won't mind if we sit a spell and wait for them.
- [a shot rings out]
- Tom Brewster: Yes, they do.
- Mattie Peel: Tex tells me you shot the boy's dog. Why?
- Simon Getty: When you're playing the kind of game we are, Mattie, you sandbag with everything you got.
- Mattie Peel: I guess that's why I like you, Simon. You're just as strong and just as ruthless as I am.
- Simon Getty: There ain't a pair like us, Mattie.
- [But she still shrinks away from his touch]
- Tom Brewster: But nobody ever goes through life without being hurt. Sometimes hurt real bad. And it's how a man faces up to that hurt, that's what counts.
- Tom Brewster: You're Mattie, huh?
- Mattie Peel: I'm flattered, you know me.
- Tom Brewster: I heard of you. And what I heard, I didn't like. And no that I seen you, that goes double.
- Mattie Peel: Why! I'll have you horsewhipped.
- Tom Brewster: It's all right. You just go ahead and try. I'm gonna tell you what I told your father, you keep your outfit away from those sheep. Because if you don't, you're gonna have no outfit.