- Virgil Gates: You know, that's pretty good stew as stew goes around here. Of course, I wish old Cookie would stay out of it with his feet when he's mixin' it up.
- Ed, the Sheriff: I think it was them easterners on the jury. They don't care what the custom was before; they just want the gunfights to stop now.
- Billy Reynolds: So they turned a page of their calendar over on me, huh?
- Ed, the Sheriff: Well, it's progress I guess you'd call it.
- Joe: It's kind of sad to see the country grow up, ain't it? People like you and me just ain't gonna know how to live in a place where killin' is illegal.
- Colonel Jorge Gomez: [as newly arrived prisoners Billy Reynolds, Virgil Gates and Frank Taggert enter their assigned prison cell] Ah, welcome, senores. Come in. Sit down, please. You will never regret choosing this cell, amigos. The company is delightful, the food superb.
- Frank Taggert: I hope he don't turn out to be one of them *talkin'* Mexicans.
- Colonel Jorge Gomez: Only when there is something interesting to say. And who has ever seen the day when this is not true?
- Frank Taggert: I've seen so many of them days, I couldn't count 'em on one calendar.
- Colonel Jorge Gomez: I am Jorge Jose Pedro Enrique de la Torres Garcia Gomez.
- Frank Taggert: [looks a bit bewildered] We'll try to figure that out later...
- Frank Taggert: Whatcha' in here for, Gomez?
- Colonel Jorge Gomez: Just a little matter of property dispute.
- Frank Taggert: What kind of property?
- Colonel Jorge Gomez: Cattle. I bought a few from this man, and he claim I forget to pay him back.
- Frank Taggert: Oh, a "cattle rustler"!
- Colonel Jorge Gomez: Ah, no! I think of myself more as a speculator in livestock! Ha ha.
- Frank Taggert: Maybe the judge didn't see it in the same light as you did?
- Virgil Gates: I said, "Judge, you gotta' give a fella *time* to remember things." Well, he did... he gave me three years.
- Captain Jack Wells: [Captain Wells and his guards open Billy Reynold's cell door] Come on, Reynolds. You're getting a special treat today.
- Captain Jack Wells: [Reynolds just sits on his bunk, ignoring him, whereupon Captain Wells angrily grabs Reynolds and jerks him out the door of the cell] Don't *ever* just sit there and look at me when I tell you to MOVE!
- Captain Jack Wells: [starts to smirk at Reynolds, who is being held by Wells' fellow guards] That's the way we run things, Reynolds: by jumping when we're told to jump. Smiling when we're told to smile - and even giving up our teeth if one of the guards seems to want 'em bad enough.
- Captain Jack Wells: Take him to the warden.
- [the guards escort him away]
- Frank Taggert: I'd be lost in a crowd. It's the only way to get along in any prison. If they can remember your name, they'll always think to call it out if there's any dirty work, or any punishment to be give out. You know, I've lived through eight prisons - and about the same amount of wives - by just blendin' into the background when the noise gets loud.