- Gil Westrum: Don't worry about? about anything. I'll take care of it, just like you would have.
- Steve Judd: Hell, I know that. I always did... You just forgot it for a while, that's all.
- Elsa Knudsen: My father says there's only right and wrong - good and evil. Nothing in between. It isn't that simple, is it?
- Steve Judd: No, it isn't. It should be, but it isn't.
- Steve Judd: I want to know if you rednecked peckerwoods are too chicken-gutted to finish this thing in the open.
- Gil Westrum: Cut me loose, Steve!
- Steve Judd: Why?
- Gil Westrum: [Gil holds out his bound outstretched wrists] Because I don't sleep so good anymore.
- Steve Judd: [Sees Heck carelessly discarding a paper wrapper on the ground] Pick that up! These mountains don't need your trash.
- Gil Westrum: Don't worry boy. The Lord's bounty may not be for sale but the Devil's is... if you can pay the price.
- Gil Westrum: Pardner, do you know what's on the back of a poor man when he dies? The clothes of pride. And they're not a bit warmer to him than when he was alive.
- Billy Hammond: You know, Elder, I hate to get married with one of my brothers smellin' bad enough to gag a dog off a gut wagon.
- Steve Judd: [to Gil as they bed down in the barn] If my sleeping bothers you, don't bother to let me know it.
- Gil Westrum: [with sarcasm] Dandy pair of boots you got there.
- Steve Judd: Juan Fernandez made those boots for me in San Antone - special order. I had a hell of a time getting him to put that hole in there. Fine craftsman, Juan, but he never did understand the principle of ventilation.
- Gil Westrum: I remember Juan - always felt the boot should cover the foot.
- Elsa Knudsen: What's gonna happen to him?
- Steve Judd: The boy? I'll testify for him. They shouldn't be too hard.
- Elsa Knudsen: Will you testify for Mr. Westrum?
- Steve Judd: No, I wont.
- Elsa Knudsen: Why?
- Steve Judd: Because he was my friend.
- Steve Judd: [after knocking out Heck with one punch] When I questioned you about that boy, I should've gone a bit deeper into the subject of character. I hope that's a mistake I won't live to regret.
- Steve Judd: [wryly] Good fight! I enjoyed it!
- Steve Judd: [Quoting from the Bible] "The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit. Him that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein."
- Elsa Knudsen: Mr. Longtree was a perfect gentleman.
- Sylvus Hammond: How come? Something wrong with him?
- Steve Judd: [Meeting Joshua Knudsen when they arrive at his farmstead] We're on our way to Coarse Gold. Wondered if you could furnish accommodations for the night?
- Joshua Knudsen: Well, I've got no room in the house. But I've no objection if you want to spend the night in the barn.
- Steve Judd: Thank you, sir. If you could spare us a few eggs, we'd be glad to pay for them.
- Joshua Knudsen: Well, you can have one, because the Lord's bounty is not for sale... The rest are a dollar each.
- Heck Longtree: [Outraged at the price] A dollar each! Now how in the world do those short-legged chickens lay eggs so high?
- Joshua Knudsen: [Dourly] Levity in the young is likened to a dry gourd, with the seeds rattling around.
- Gil Westrum: [while the three men - Steve, Gil and Heck - are seated at the dinner table at host Joshua and his daughter Elsa's for the first time, and after Steve and Joshua have a somewhat argumentative discourse quoting Bible verses pertaining to the 3 men's "trafficking in gold," Gil addresses Elsa to lighten the mood] "You cook a lovely ham hock, Ms. Knudsen, just lovely. Appetite, Chapter One."
- Judge Tolliver: You know, a good marriage has a kind of simple glory about it. A good marriage is a rare animal, hard to find - almost impossible to keep.
- Elder Hammond: You can't take a wife away from her husband on his wedding night.
- Judge Tolliver: Clear case of breaking and entering.
- Elder Hammond: Elsa's legally married to Billy. Right, Judge?
- Judge Tolliver: I now pr'nounce you man 'n wife... and, don't you forget it.
- Steve Judd: That boy you trained personally shows a substantial lack of judgment.
- Gil Westrum: Kinda' showin' *your* age, aren't ya? Interfering with a young man's love life...
- Steve Judd: Well, I'm not payin' him ten dollars a day to go moonin' after some girl whose old man is about to hind-end him with a load of buckshot.