- Brady Hawkes: Poker's a trade, son. And an honest one. It's fellows like you that give gambling a bad name. Like drunks give drinking.
- Brady Hawkes: I've gambled a lotta towns. I've read a lotta faces. Gambling can take hold of a man. You gotta be able to walk away from it.
- Billy Montana: I done pretty good so far. I've been around.
- Brady Hawkes: But not along enought to see what I've seen. Kid, I've seen cowboys gamble their saddles, loggers a winter's wages. Seen men put up the deeds to their homes and their businesses and their futures. Seen those same men blow their brains out after losing everything they own.
- Billy Montana: And heaven on Earth is a Mississippi riverboat.
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- Doc Palmer: Wel thank you, Lilly. Where are you from?
- Lilly: Everywhere. Where are you from, Doc?
- Doc Palmer: Where ever they play cards, honey.
- Billy Montana: Well you're gonna be good and outnumbered. That Derringer's not gonna do it, you pull that trigger twice, that little old gun's gonna be emptier than a banker's heart.
- Brady Hawkes: Kid, I'll tell you what: if you don't make it as a gambler, you'll real good spreading fertilizer.
- Jennie Reed: Three years ago I got married to a man named John Reed. He was a hell rat like a thousand others, digging for gold. But he struck it rich, real rich. And he married the prettiest whore in town. Suddenly there we were, mixing with the rich. Cream of Sacremento society. Even though he needed it worse than me, John thought that I could take on a little polish... learn to dress and talk like a lady. So he sent me off to a Saint Louis finishing school. Two years... I learned everything it takes to make a whore into a lady. It wasn't easy. I am going back a lady.
- Brady Hawkes: The question is... which two of you are willing to take the bullets? So the other two can do the cutting.
- Arthur Stobridge: Mrs. Reed... you've been riding this car for a long time now. It's awfully drafty, dusty... must be quite uncomfortable.
- Jennie Reed: Well, since you own the railroad, Mr. Stobridge, why don't you do something about it?