- [Marshal Pennock enters Kate's restaurant]
- Kate Mulvaney: Speak of the devil - and that's an insult to Satan.
- [Bill asks Kate for a list of town ordinances]
- Bill Longley: If he's going to throw the book at me, maybe I'd better read it first.
- Ruth Avery: Looks like we're always making trouble for you.
- Bill Longley: I've been told I make plenty for myself.
- Marshal Bart Pennock: [to Kate] You're going to give that badge to a stranger?
- Bill Longley: The way I understand it, for a man to be a stranger, he doesn't have any friends.
- Bill Longley: Do you know what a marshal is, Kate? It's the whole town standing in one pair of boots.
- [to Dell who shot the man trying to bushwhack him]
- Bill Longley: There were two of them... and two of us.