- Bret Maverick: I'll call, sixteen thousand.
- Samantha Crawford: You're looking at my hand, Mr. Maverick, a pair of nines.
- Bret Maverick: I wasn't bluffing, Miss Crawford. Sorry, I do have the nine.
- [Maverick turns over his hole card to show he's completed a straight]
- Samantha Crawford: I didn't think you were, Mr. Maverick.
- Bret Maverick: And you raised in to me?
- Samantha Crawford: According to Hoyle, remember?
- [Samantha reads from her copy of 'Hoyle's Book of Games']
- Samantha Crawford: "In five-card stud poker, straights are not played unless it's determined at the commencement of the game that they be admitted." See for yourself, Mr. Maverick.
- Samantha Crawford: Uh, gentlemen, before we begin, I'd like one thing clearly understood. Now, as we did before, we play according to Hoyle?
- Bret Maverick: You make quite a point of it.
- Samantha Crawford: Well, it's a man's world, and they make the rules. I haven't any objections to that as long as they all abide by them equally.
- Kittredge: According to Hoyle, Miss Crawford.
- Bret Maverick: Samantha. You just proved something my old Pappy used to tell me. Man's the only animal you can skin more than once.
- Opening title card: The Rule of Hoyle quoted in this story is authentic, and is from "Hoyle's Book of Games, 1876."
- [Maverick has lost Bledsoe and Hayes' money in a high-stakes poker game]
- Bret Maverick: I imagine you have your suspicions, gentlemen.
- Bledsoe: Well, not at all. Both Mr. Hayes and I checked carefully. You have an impeccable reputation for honesty.
- Bret Maverick: I'm afraid that's all I have left.
- Bret Maverick: I remember George Cross who played good cards badly and bad cards worse.
- Samantha Crawford: Well, you took his money.
- Bret Maverick: Yes, but believe me, I never played in a game with anyone I didn't think could afford to lose.
- Samantha Crawford: Well, that doesn't help him now.
- Bret Maverick: Samantha, this is Big Mike McComb. Mike, I wrote you about Miss Crawford.
- Big Mike McComb: Aye, that you did, but you didn't write half enough.
- Joe Riggs: Boys tell me a load of gaming equipment came in this morning. Yours?
- Bret Maverick: Didn't your boys tell you that?
- Joe Riggs: They didn't have to. Now that I see you, I can add two and two together.
- Bret Maverick: It'll never come out four, not the way you deal.
- Bret Maverick: Don't you wanna see Joe Riggs closed up?
- Ma Braus: Oh, the Devil will get him some day.
- Bret Maverick: I'd like to help.
- Ma Braus: The Devil does plenty of business in this town, he don't need you.
- George Cross: Nobody ever cheated me and got away with it.
- Bret Maverick: And nobody ever called me a cheat and got away with it.
- [last lines]
- Bret Maverick: It's a long way to Kansas City. High card deals?
- Henry Tree: Seven of clubs.
- George Cross: Ten of diamonds.
- Bret Maverick: Ten of hearts.
- Samantha Crawford: Ace of spades!
- [first lines]
- Bret Maverick: I'll take two, please.
- Kittredge: I'll try one.
- Samantha Crawford: Three, please.
- Bret Maverick: Opener bet's 200.
- Kittredge: I'm out.
- Samantha Crawford: I think there's an expression in poker. I'll tap you, Mr. Maverick.
- Bret Maverick: There is 3500... and since you're tapping me, I believe I'd better add this.
- [unpins 1000 dollar bill from inside his coat]
- Big Mike McComb: [about Samantha] She's got to be Irish with a face like that. She's an angel, but an angel.
- Bret Maverick: Play poker with her sometime.
- Bret Maverick: New Orleans, a real fine place to be. When you've got some money in your pocket. I hadn't.
- Samantha Crawford: Why I expected you to be a good loser.
- Bret Maverick: Is anyone? No one likes to lose.
- Samantha Crawford: Especially to a woman, huh?