Bret Maverick (TV Series)
The Yellow Rose (1981)
James Garner: Bret Maverick
Quotes
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[Bret has accidentally won a cantankerous Chinese girl in a poker game]
Tom Guthrie : That's some rose you have there.
Jack the Bartender : A yellow rose to be precise.
Bret Maverick : If I can find that guy, he can have her back - thorns and all.
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[Bret sneaks back into his saloon]
Tom Guthrie : Well, well. Speak of the devil.
Bret Maverick : Well, if you do, I'd appreciate it if you keep it down - way down.
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Tom Guthrie : Your horses are waitin' around the corner, but I still think it's too risky to make a break for it now.
Bret Maverick : When it's your tail, I'll ask you.
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Bret Maverick : Kwai, don't you want to be free to come and go as you please?
Kwai Bo Yung : At night, Maverick, one dreams of many things... sisters, parents, freedom... but always the sun soon returns and dreams must leave.
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Bret Maverick : So I think that a person like you would be just the one to break her into freedom gently, sort of one step at a time.
Captain Slater : I don't know. I tamed my share of wild ones; can't say that I ever turned a tame one wild.