- [first lines]
- John Campbell: Allow me.
- Louise Ellison: I gather this isn't the first time you've helped a woman into her clothing?
- John Campbell: Nor is it the first you've been helped into yours.
- Louise Ellison: What if I told you that it was?
- John Campbell: Why, I'd say you've kept poor company.
- Louise Ellison: Company has a way of damaging a girl's reputation.
- John Campbell: That was not the passion of a woman overly concerned with her reputation.
- Louise Ellison: That was the triumph of curiosity over experience.
- John Campbell: Several triumphs. At least three.
- Louise Ellison: Two. Maybe.
- John Campbell: Well, two so far.
- Collis Huntington: Tell me, did you ever have the opportunity to work with Cullen Bohannon? That man impresses the hell out of me.
- The Swede: Everything I know I learned by careful study of Cullen Bohannon.
- Collis Huntington: How about that?
- Cullen Bohannan: I've killed far better men than you for doin' a lot less than that.
- John Campbell: I have no shred of doubt.
- Ruth: [distraught] He'll never go to school. Never have a sweetheart. Never get married. He hated doing chores. He brought live toads into the church. He was wild and headstrong, and I could never get him to take a bath. But he was a good boy. And the last time I saw him, I spoke to him in anger.
- Louise Ellison: You killed that man. After the fire. I know he was monstrous.
- Eva: You don't know nothin' but words.
- [last lines]
- Cullen Bohannan: Drop that gun.
- Sydney Snow: Yeah, come on and take it.
- Sydney Snow: [gunshot] Ahh!
- Sydney Snow: [gunshot]
- [coughs]
- Sydney Snow: Well, dip me in dog shit.
- Sydney Snow: [coughs and laughs] The church lady?