- Rod Blakley: Now look. I rode 50 miles to talk to you and you're gonna listen or I'll bust your jaw.
- Paladin: Hospitality towards strangers is a Western virtue, I hope you gentlemen will see fit to practise it from now on.
- Rod Blakley: We were going to be married. I was ramrod and chief cattle buyer for Pete Hollister. He sent me off to Texas to buy some cattle. When I came back to the
- [Deerholm]
- Rod Blakley: Ranch, she was Mrs Hollister.
- Pete Hollister: If you didn't have that gun, I'd beat the brains out of both of yer.
- Paladin: I'm not interested in disproving that.
- Paladin: Mrs Hollister, to be a fine singer requires sacrifice, a good deal of old-fashioned sweat and not a little bit of humility and understanding.
- Faye Hollister: And money. Where are you going to get money?
- Pete Hollister: I never eat a thing before noon. Just some lemon juice. My voice, you know. Well, my voice teacher arranged an audition for me with the opera company.
- Paladin: Oh, I'm certain I could be some help. I have a very good friend, Signor Vittorio Bottelini, formerly of La Scala, now the foremost opera impressario in the United States. I'm certain I could organise a private audition.