Norah Porter: Whatever became of Frances Bilky?
Captain Bill Hodges: I don't know. She married a colonel, I think. Maybe it was a general. At any rate, she outranks all of us.
Norah Porter: But that's wonderful! Now she'll have her lifelong ambition to lead the cotillion. Well, I guess that's what I always wanted too.
Captain Bill Hodges: You don't have anything like that around here, do you, Captain?
Captain David Porter: Oh, I don't know. The Indians come down once a month and dance for us.


--Randolph Scott (as ) in Thunder Over the Plains

Sherry Balder: Oh, Dan, if you care anything about me at all, take me away.
Dan Mitchell: Sherry, I... I wouldn't be any good to you running away. Being afraid would take half the fun out of life for me.


--Randolph Scott (as Dan Mitchell) in Abilene Town

Doretta Mims: [sobbing after the ordeal is over]
Pat Brennan: Come on now. It's gonna be a nice day.


--Randolph Scott (as ) in The Tall T

Sam Boone: [Brigade loosens the noose around Billy's neck] I thought for a minute there you were gonna let him swing.
Ben Brigade: So did I.


--Randolph Scott (as ) in Ride Lonesome

Sam Boone: Brigade? I don't suppose there's any way of getting Billy from you? Aside from going over you?
Ben Brigade: Come and get him.


--Randolph Scott (as ) in Ride Lonesome

Rita: You know, I think what I like least about you is you're so sure of yourself.
Dan Mitchell: When a man rides down the middle of Texas Street, confidence is all he's got.


--Randolph Scott (as Dan Mitchell) in Abilene Town

Mrs. Carrie Lane: They told me why you're taking the boy to Santa Cruz.
Ben Brigade: Did they?
Mrs. Carrie Lane: They'll hang him, won't they?
Ben Brigade: Yes, ma'am.
Mrs. Carrie Lane: He's so young.
Ben Brigade: He killed a man.
Mrs. Carrie Lane: It doesn't bother you, bringing him in, I mean.
Ben Brigade: No, ma'am.
Mrs. Carrie Lane: You just don't seem the kind that would hunt a man for money.
Ben Brigade: I am.


--Randolph Scott (as ) in Ride Lonesome

Mrs. Carrie Lane: You don't seem like the kind that would hunt a man for money.
Ben Brigade: I am.


--Randolph Scott (as ) in Ride Lonesome

Jack Slade: Suppose I don't let you go?
Vance Shaw: Why don't you stop me?


--Randolph Scott (as Vance Shaw) in Western Union

Nancy Lowe: If-if you had a woman taken by the Comanche and-and you got her back... how would you feel knowing?
Jefferson Cody: If I loved her, it wouldn't matter.
Nancy Lowe: Wouldn't it?
Jefferson Cody: No ma'am, it wouldn't matter at all.


--Randolph Scott (as ) in Comanche Station