Dan Duryea: China Smith

Quotes 

• Maggie : Then what is your price, Mr. Smith. A man like you always has one.

  China Smith : That I have - a kind word, an honest gesture, a feeling heart - the kind of currency you don't seem to carry around.

• Quaile : What do you know about Bibles?

  China Smith : Bibles? Well, more than a heathen but less than a priest.

• [Quaile wants to hire Smith to steal his bible back from a Communist colonel] 

  Quaile : I know it's dangerous...

  China Smith : Dangerous? For two thousand dollars, it's ridiculous. Getting in and out of North Indochina is tough enough.

  Quaile : Twenty-five hundred.

  China Smith : And that's to burgle an army officer's house, too?

  Quaile : Three thousand and all expenses.

  China Smith : Including burial?

  Quaile : Four! I'd go myself, but... Will you please help me?

  China Smith : You just hired a Smith! It's a fine nice word, "please". And you'd have saved yourself some money if you'd used it sooner.

• Quaile : That man - I think he works for a man named Banning. I made the mistake of showing him my Gutenberg Bible. He and his niece have been after it ever since.

  China Smith : You'd do well to show it to them again - if only to let them read the Commandments.

• China Smith : [narrating]  There's one problem about having the reputation as a troubleshooter - someone's always handing you trouble.

• [last lines] 

  China Smith : [looking heavenward]  A gun and a Bible - it's a wonder he puts up with us.

• China Smith : As I started to say, Maggie, I'd love workin' for you - or the other chap - but I don't work both sides of the street at once.

  Maggie : I no longer believe in fairy tales, Mr. Smith. Neither the one about Santa Claus nor the one about honor among thieves.

  China Smith : After a long, hard life, I've found them both to be true.

  Maggie : I'll match what this man offers to pay you, so you'll collect twice. Is it a deal?

  China Smith : No deal... and it must be shocking to find out there *is* a Santa Claus.