- Paladin: [to his lady friend in his hotel room] I took the liberty of taking the bullets out of that gun.
- [the one she has pointed at him]
- Paladin: Don't be angry. If you'll look in your purse, you'll see that you have no reason to be angry. A little gift to encourage your devotion to pretty things. Besides the thought of you in prison was too distasteful.
- [first lines]
- Paladin: Culp, you don't even know Joselito Kincaid, you've never even seen him before. If you kill him, you'll wish you'd killed me first.
- Joe Culp: You know, Paladin, I guess everyone's gotta have someone to hate. Now, the Gringo, he hates the Mexican, the Mexican hates the Apache, the Apache hates both of them. And this fellow here, he reminds me of a man I used to know down South Texas. A quarter blood Apache, not enough to make him an Indian. But just enough to make him afraid other people might think he was.