Jock Mahoney: Yancy Derringer

Quotes 

• Yancy Derringer : There are three knaves from New Haven, the Devon brothers and a man named Travers...

  John Colton : Yes, never mind them. What's this about Duquense Street?

  Yancy Derringer : Well, the three knaves are buying all the property from Royal Street to the levee. Now, I smell smoke, Mr. Administrator, and I want you to tell me about the fire.

  John Colton : This is a state secret.

  Yancy Derringer : Oh, not any more.

  John Colton : Is there anything about New Orleans that you don't know, Mr. Derringer?

  Yancy Derringer : Well, yes. There's a young lady...

• Blair Devon : After all, it is only a pawnshop.

  Yancy Derringer : Only a pawnshop? Mr. Devon, it's the last haven of the poor poker player who believed in two pair. It's an institution. I personally shall miss it.

• Claude de Graaf : I'm not a superstititous man, and yet...

  Yancy Derringer : And yet, what happened to Mr. Arlington and Mr. Spencer?

  Blair Devon : Nothing happened to Mr. Spencer. He just left town, that's all.

  Yancy Derringer : Face down, by way of the Mississippi, short voyage?

• Joshua Devon : Tokens of my solvency. In Connecticut, we say it's money that makes a man.

  Yancy Derringer : We put it a different way in New Orleans - it's not money that gives a man his standing, but his name.

• Yancy Derringer : It's a curious thing about bullets. In poker, you need only two, preferably three, you dream of four - in life, one takes the trick.