- [No one attends Wade Matlock's funeral]
- John Parrish: Matlock wasn't the kind to have any friends after he was dead.
- Jim McCloud: What are they up to?
- John Parrish: You want to go down and ask them?
- Jim McCloud: They're burning the ranch.
- John Parrish: What did you expect them to do? Give it a fresh coat of paint?
- Judith Wilkison: Either you're too good to be true or you're clever and careful and I don't like clever and careful people.
- John Parrish: You're trying to pick a fight with me, why?
- Wade Matlock: In this country it's good manners to accept a man's liquer.
- John Parrish: I don't drink.
- Wade Matlock: You're a lier.
- Lee Wilkison: Here in Archer we don't pay much attention to that hogwash about the meek inheriting the earth.
- John Parrish: My stock alone's worth more.
- Lee Wilkison: We don't figure that way. We figure what it's worth to get you off the land without fights.
- Lee Wilkison: I don't know how you can be married to me so long and not know my way of doing business. Maybe that's what I like about you.
- Martha Wilkison: I've lived with half a man for 12 years. I have myself and him. I've played the part of a loving wife when i can't bear the touch of his hands.
- Martha Wilkison: You know Captain for a couple of moments I thought you were going to turn out to be a real human afer all with a temper, pride, everything.