- Paladin: Double-cross is a very ambiguous sign; it points in eight different directions all at once.
- Paladin: All right, what's Marquette paying you?
- Rena - Saloon Gal: For what?
- Paladin: The little job you're doing on Dooley.
- Rena - Saloon Gal: Who says he's paying me?
- Paladin: I say he is. Now tell me how much it is and I'll match the fee if you leave Dooley alone.
- Ben Marquette: $50, Dooley. $50 says you can't walk a rope across this saloon. Well, it's an easy bet for Dooley Delaware, isn't it?
- Dooley Delaware: I don't have a rope.
- Ben Marquette: You think you can make that, Mr Delaware?
- Dooley Delaware: Excuse me, I think I can do it, Mr Marquette. But I can't meet the bet. All I've got is two dollars and twelve cents.
- Dooley Delaware: For $100 I'd cross Salamander Canyon on a wire.
- Ben Marquette: You've got yourself a bet.
- Paladin: That doesn't help anybody's reputation. Even the Barbary Coast sharpshooters don't work like that.
- Paladin: I've been told that canyon is one hundred feet across and three hundred feet straight down and a wind like the breath of a devil.
- Dooley Delaware: Mr Paladin, you heard what they call me, a monkey on a string. That's what I've ever been.
- Ben Marquette: Hold the stakes, Bolo.
- Paladin: Wait a minute. $6,000, that's too big a load for such a small character.
- Bolo - Henchman: Mr Marquette says I hold the money.
- Ben Marquette: Easy, Bolo, we don't want to offend our meal ticket.
- Paladin: Dooley will be alive? He'll die every time he looks in the mirror for the rest of his life. This town will paint him yellow and never let him forget it.