Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series)

Taylor's Woman (1962)

Richard Boone: Paladin

Quotes 

• Thad Taylor : We had an agreement.

  Paladin : Well, I'm living up to my part of it.

  Thad Taylor : You've done nothing but throw the whole darn thing right back in my lap.

  Paladin : A man can be hired to do anything in this world for another man but make a decision for him!

• Paladin : Well, I think your fiance might agree that this money was fairly earned.

  Lydia Moss : Maybe you just should have just stayed in San Francisco and not butted in at all.

  Paladin : Now that kind of remark calls for a very special kind of an answer and I wish I could think of it.

• Lydia Moss : Thaddeus. If you're gonna track mud in, you're gonna sweep it out too, dear.

  Paladin : Hmm. Now I feel better. Whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. Thaddeus!

• Paladin : When Milton declared that heaven's best gift is a woman perfected, he forgot to mention what a hellish job it is perfecting one of them.

• Paladin : I think perhaps Homer described it better. A creature with the form of a goddess, the walk of a queen and the heart of a tyrant.

• Paladin : Madam, the fact that a chicken can lay a perfect egg does not entitle her to crow like a rooster.

• Lydia Moss : Maybe you'd prefer to go out and eat with the hogs.

  Paladin : Miss Moss, don't apologize to me for your cooking. I'm sure the over seasoning was just a mistake.

  Lydia Moss : Over what? We've had your cowboy friends ride three days to eat at this table.

  Paladin : It is amazing how cowboys and ranch hands develop a fondness for that peculiar flavor of chuck wagon cooking. Very few kitchens can reproduce it.

• Paladin : Lesson number one - never touch a man in desperation, in anger or in fear. A real woman, a proper female kind of woman tries to perpetuate the legend that her touch is as rare as a fine jewel. That it's given only to a very special person at a very special moment.

  Lydia Moss : That doesn't make sense. It's not even practical.

  Paladin : Lesson number two - forget all about logic. Now, how in the world get her hair into this condition? What do you do, starch and iron it?

  [She has gloriously thick blonde hair, plaited and swirled around over each ear. The inspiration for Princess Leia] 

• Lydia Moss : Do I have to be a liar to be a woman?

  Paladin : You'll know when a moment for honesty comes and it'll make truth out of every illusion you've created.

• Lydia Moss : Miss Moss. Here are your robes. I believe you're about ready to graduate.

  Paladin : Miss Moss. Here are your robes. I believe you're about ready to graduate.