- Vivian Carter: Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be. The last of life for which the first was made.
- [Quote from Rabbi Ben Erza by Robert Browning. The book in Christopher's wagon is open on this page when Vivian goes to find a bottle of alcohol for her pregnant friend Hazel's pain]
- Mrs. Anderson: Well, that's a fool thing to say. Didn't your proper Boston upbringing allow you gracious receiving?
- Vivian Carter: This was all your idea, wasn't it?
- Mrs. Anderson: Oh no, it wasn't. I've buried two husbands and I'm living with the third. And I'm not liable to well over just because somebody is liable to have their first at your age.
- Flint McCullough: Well, I hope he has a very elegant house in Branton City.
- Vivian Carter: Oh, I'm sure he has.
- Flint McCullough: If you're ready to leave, the Major gave me leave to drive you down.
- Vivian Carter: Oh, how nice.
- Flint McCullough: We can go on with our argument.
- Vivian Carter: Discussion.
- Flint McCullough: Yes, ma'am.
- Christopher Webb: Goodbye is too little to say anything. Anything would be too much.
- Vivian Carter: I hope you find wonderful ranch land and lots of happiness.
- Flint McCullough: You could strain your eyes.
- Vivian Carter: I don't really have to see the words I think I know of Mr Browning. Do you like him?
- Flint McCullough: I've never met him.
- Vivian Carter: You really don't care much for books, do you?
- Flint McCullough: No, I used to read when I was a child. I don't have much time any more. Besides, I like people better, that's all.
- Vivian Carter: You can learn a lot about people from books.
- Flint McCullough: You can learn a lot about people from people. Which brings us back to our old argument.
- Vivian Carter: Discussion.
- Flint McCullough: All right, discussion. Your Mr Browning, did he write about Mrs Anderson or Dickie or most of the folks on the wagon train? Did he?
- Vivian Carter: Why should he want to marry me?
- Flint McCullough: Because you're a very special woman. We'll be getting into town pretty soon.
- Vivian Carter: I better freshen up. I'm not the windblown type. And I'm interested in what type you think I am.
- Flint McCullough: If you weren't about to get married, I might tell you.
- Freda Johnson: Well, I don't know how they do it in Boston, but, in Branton City, ladies don't drink on the street.
- Vivian Carter: Sky-what a scowl of cloud. Till, near and far, Ray on ray, split the shroud. Splendid, a star.
- Bert Johnson: Browning, isn't it?
- Vivian Carter: Darling, you know it.
- Bert Johnson: You gave me the book. I got the idea I better read it.
- Freda Johnson: And I'm not smart and I'm not rolling in money. But I know men.
- Flint McCullough: I believe you.
- Freda Johnson: And brains ain't the thing a man looks for in a woman. I'm smart enough to know that.
- Flint McCullough: [Flint follows her into the hotel and catches up with her on the stairs] Freda, I didn't mean to rile you. I don't know what I said but I'm sorry.
- Freda Johnson: You said womanly.
- Flint McCullough: Well, I'll never say that again, all right?
- Vivian Carter: I can't, I can't face those people on the wagon train.
- Flint McCullough: Everything's going to be difficult for a while. Have you ever heard the Major yell at me?
- Flint McCullough: You're quite a man, Mr Johnson. You hit a woman in the face, but you hit a man in the back.
- Bert Johnson: I thought you'd be gone by now.
- Flint McCullough: I just don't like loose ends
- [and he punches Johnson]
- Flint McCullough: You mean, you'd let him marry her for money, but not for love. You two really deserve each other.
- Bill Hawks: Don't you ever get tired of talking?
- Charlie Wooster: Not a bit. Talking is the one thing I can do without thinking. Well, maybe, I could put it a bit better than that.
- Bill Hawks: No, sir. That's the smartest thing you ever said.
- Charlie Wooster: You think so?
- Mrs. Anderson: The last good man in the world didn't die yesterday. I'm the living testamonial to that it can still happen.
- Major Seth Adams: You're 6 hours late, McCullough.
- Flint McCullough: I'm sorry.
- Major Seth Adams: Now that I know I can get through Commanche country without a scout, maybe I don't need one at all. I presume you brought the supplies.
- Flint McCullough: No.
- Vivian Carter: I delayed him, Major.
- Major Seth Adams: Miss Carter, I thought you were leaving us.
- Vivian Carter: To get married. I thought so too. But I guess we were both wrong, Major.
- Flint McCullough: The lady changed her mind... it happens all the time.
- Flint McCullough: [Flint wraps his arms around Mrs Anderson as though she was his mother] Mrs Anderson. Well, have you missed me?
- Mrs. Anderson: Been worried sick. You been gone?
- [Other ladies at the campfire laugh]
- Flint McCullough: Only a week... I haven't seen Vivian Carter around anywhere.
- Mrs. Anderson: You're no different to the rest of us. None of us see her.
- Flint McCullough: Did she leave the train?
- Mrs. Anderson: Only in a manner of speaking.
- Christopher Webb: You just hear the things you wanna hear, don't you, Vivian? Well, you don't qualify. You don't know the first thing about making a happy marriage.
- Vivian Carter: As for that "Just Married," that's a little previous. But I'll forgive you for that.
- Charlie Wooster: Thank you.
- Dickie: Are you just right pleased?
- Vivian Carter: I'm just right pleased, Dickie, and very touched.
- Dickie: I sure didn't let on, did I? I've been near bursting to tell you.
- Vivian Carter: Bursting.
- Dickie: Yes'm. But I sure never let on, did I.
- Vivian Carter: You're the best secret keeper I know.