- Franz Lister: Throughout my life, that piano has been my life. She was my mother when I was hurt, my wife when I was lonely, my shield from attack, my shelter when I was weary and sick at heart. That piano you do not buy like a harlot, in a street. You fight for her like a woman you like.
- Sybil Lansing: I'm Sybil Lansing. My mother is Mrs. Bosley Lansing.
- Paladin: Oh, the woman, who at one time operated the most elaborate uh
- [hesitates and looks at Hey Boy for help]
- Paladin: *saloon* in the Oklahoma Territory.
- Paladin: Franz Lister is here in America?
- Sybil Lansing: For $50,000 Mr. Paladin, I do believe Mr. Lister would play his precious piano in a Siberian igloo, wearing gloves, of course.
- Sybil Lansing: What is that absolutely tantalizing aroma?
- Hey Boy: Buffalo haunch.
- Sybil Lansing: Not buffalo haunch!
- [to Paladin]
- Sybil Lansing: Would you mind terribly if I had some of this while you're changing into your travelling clothes? I've been away at school, you know. And you wouldn't believe how difficult it is to find buffalo haunch in London.
- Sybil Lansing: [entering her home] Mama always wanted a Southern plantation in the North. She says anybody can have a Southern plantation in the South.
- Paladin: I must call your attention to the fact that we are NOT engaged in a Viennese operetta.
- Franz Lister: MR PALADIN!
- Paladin: Herr Lister, at the piano you are the acknowledged master. In this situation, I am.
- Franz Lister: Have you ever heard me play, Mr Paladin?
- Paladin: Regretfully no. But I'd very much like to make it possible.
- Franz Lister: Ach, it is an experience which never fails to impress, even myself. A divine providence saw fit to create out of the unity of a gypsy mother and a Hungarian cattle baron a human instrument of greatness.
- Mona Lansing: Franz Lister, all the way from Vienna! Sponsored by Mrs Bosley Lansing, ha, ha, ha, the former, Mona Manning, ah shoeless sharecropper from the Oklahoma territory, ha, ha, ha! Just let 'em try and top that!
- Paladin: I need six men. The job may be for three days or three weeks, We'll be covering rugged country and the men we're after are clever and dangerous. They stole a piano.