- Paladin: We can't be too careful in the choice of our enemies.
- Oscar Wilde: Don't you know, that sounds like something I might have said myself, old bean.
- Paladin: You will, Mr. Wilde.
- Paladin: Quantity, Mr Carrington, is never a worthy substitute for quality, whether it's in the choice of a book, a play, a friend, or a gun.
- Oscar Wilde: I'm much too valuable a piece of merchandise for that. Damaged goods have to be sold at a discount, you know. The gall of that man, Rook. Do you know he wanted to as only $10,000 for me, and in dollars, not even in pounds sterling. Imagine the insult if that got out. A measly ten thousand for Oscar Wilde! Naturally I insisted it be raised to fifty thousand.
- Paladin: I've seen all I ever want to see of Mr Oscar Wilde. And tonight I'm going to take some of his advice.
- Fisherman: Mr Oscar Wilde give you some advice?
- Paladin: He once remarked the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. And tonight I'm yielding.
- [He now has a young lady on his arm]
- Fisherman: Oh boy.
- Paladin: I once read something of yours. You should think on it while I'm gone. It went: The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. I'm afraid Mr Rook has forced me into my proper category after all.