Jerry Denham: Miriam might like to grab the number-one bachelor in the country.
Hugh Halsworth: I can assure you, my boy, Miriam will cheerfully spit in his eye.


--Macdonald Carey (as Hugh Halsworth) in Let's Make It Legal

Deputy Lane Travis: Remember when I told you once about never having to dodge bullets from a dead man? Well, that still goes.


--Macdonald Carey (as Deputy Lane Travis) in Copper Canyon

Jack Graham: It seems to go crazy every now and then, like your Uncle Charlie.


--Macdonald Carey (as Jack Graham) in Shadow of a Doubt

Jake Davis: While you were singing he couldn't keep his eyes off your voice.


--Macdonald Carey (as ) in South Sea Sinner

James Bowie: So this is the mighty Quisima who sat on the council of the white man in Washington. This is Quisima who gave one hand in friendship to his white brothers while the other hand held a knife. This is Quisima whose words is shifting as the wind, whose tongue twists like a river of many branches. this is Quisima, breaker of treaties. Today, the Comanche is held in honor and respect like the mountain that never yields, or the sun that never changes. Tomorrow he will be driven off like a dog that wanders close to a campfire to tkae his place among men.


--Macdonald Carey (as James Bowie) in Comanche Territory

Johnny Carter: When you kill a man, he dies just as bad or just as stupid as the moment when you put the bullet in him. If you let him live, he's still got a chance to learn things.
Deputy Lane Travis: Well, that's smart... provided he learns the right things.


--Macdonald Carey (as Deputy Lane Travis) in Copper Canyon

Miriam Halsworth: We can't be rude to Victor, can we?
Hugh Halsworth: I'd like to make it my life's work.


--Macdonald Carey (as Hugh Halsworth) in Let's Make It Legal

Miriam Halsworth: What's the use? You'll never stop gambling.
Hugh Halsworth: Do you want to bet?


--Macdonald Carey (as Hugh Halsworth) in Let's Make It Legal

Miriam Halsworth: You don't believe in the, the sanctity of divorce, do you?
Hugh Halsworth: It's all right for people who've never been married.


--Macdonald Carey (as Hugh Halsworth) in Let's Make It Legal

Katie Howard: All right, mister, draw! I said, draw!
James Bowie: Sorry, ma'am. Back in Louisiana, when we meet any pretty ladies, we make love to them, we kiss them, spank 'em on occasion... but we never go around shootin' 'em.


--Macdonald Carey (as James Bowie) in Comanche Territory