- Gil Favor: Any trouble picking up her horse?
- Pete Nolan: Nah, gentle as a lamb.
- Gil Favor: Mmh. She said a gopher frightened him.
- Pete Nolan: Hah! Must have been a pretty big gopher.
- Gil Favor: Oh, no sense holding down two tables, Rowdy.
- Rowdy Yates: Oh, ah, I didn't think you noticed me, Mr Favor.
- Gil Favor: Well, you didn't come here on foot, did ya?
- Rowdy Yates: Oh, yeah, my horse.
- [His horse was tied up outside for all the world to see]
- Maria Carroyo: It is possible that they want you to hand over your gun.
- Gil Favor: You're very good at betrayal.
- Maria Carroyo: I promised only to take you to your men. I will break even that promise. It is too late and I am tired. They
- [the guards]
- Maria Carroyo: will take you.
- Rowdy Yates: [Maria is dancing vigourously in high heels in the cantina] Ankle got better, didn't it?
- Gil Favor: Mm. And fast.
- Rowdy Yates: Somebody ought to congratulate her for her fast recovery.
- Gil Favor: Somebody will.
- Gil Favor: After you'd led cattle to the slaughtering house, you can't explain how the slaughtering is done.
- Jim Quince: I did not think that patriotism meant the slaughter of old men, and torturing helpless men.
- Julio: I have learnt one thing about the battles my father fights. If you do not go to it, it comes to you.
- Maria Carroyo: I will be very good in Mexico City.
- Villegro: I had thought it might be a question of pride.
- Maria Carroyo: Pride is for men, Major.
- Villegro: You bring no dresses with you, Senorita?
- Maria Carroyo: I will buy them in Mexico.
- Villegro: No, I will buy them in Mexico.
- Maria Carroyo: But, Major, you are not going to Mexico.
- Juan Carroyo: Julio, beans and cheap wine, quarters in the stable for the six peons, and afterwards, the same for me.
- Julio: Si, senor.
- Juan Carroyo: And a bottle of the wine you drink for the Major and his Lieutenants. H e has expensive tastes, that one.
- Villegro: Who is he?
- Juan Carroyo: Don Juan de Remus. A fine Spanish gentleman, the father of my dead wife.