- Nick Catapoli: Is no Merry Christmas for me. I may be only fella in the whole world who don't like it. I hate Christmas.
- Hitchhiker: What's the matter with it?
- Nick Catapoli: What's the matter with it. All year, everybody is stingy, is mean, squeeze the money - all of a sudden, it come Christmas; everybody smiles, got a false face. Not Nick - I'm no phony. Why everybody gotta change, just because it Christmas, huh?
- Hitchhiker: Because we can't get away from it. Because the true meaning of Christmas is peace, and brotherhood, and love. Seems to me that's a remedy for all the world's troubles.
- First Cowboy: Howdy, folks! That's some star you got out there, pardner - lights up half of the county.
- Third Cowboy: Yeah - we was ridin' along out on the desert when we see that there star.
- First Cowboy: Followed it for ten miles.
- Second Cowboy: More than that, even.
- [last lines]
- Nick Catapoli: [reaching to shake hands] ... Merry Christmas.
- Hitchhiker: Merry Christmas, Nick.
- [he leaves, turning at the door to smile; Nick watches him go, then looks at the nativity scene in his calendar as he hears the visiting choir sing "Silent Night" from one of the cabins; he looks out the window at the cowboys visiting the newborn baby in his shed, as a tear rolls down his face]
- Nick Catapoli: Shame on you for bein' such a fool.
- Hitchhiker: You're wrong, Nick. You only believe what you see. But what does that prove? Nobody sees the stars in the daytime - that's no sign they aren't there. Everybody's been rubbin' you the wrong way, that's all. Say, I've been running up against all kinds - bad ones, and good ones. And the good ones make a man forget all the others.
- Hitchhiker: I thought maybe I might step inside and warm up a bit. Maybe you could spare a hot cup of coffee?
- Nick Catapoli: Is no flop joint. I don't have no business for the free lunch.
- Hitchhiker: Oh. Well, I thought tonight, everybody'd want to show a little goodwill.
- Nick Catapoli: Goodwill? What are you talkin', goodwill? Is no such thing. You see that sign? It cost me plenty money - even second-hand cash. I can't buy 'em with goodwill; I can't buy nothin' with goodwill. See?
- Hitchhiker: OK.
- Mr. Dilson: How do you like that? I'm buyin' cigars, instead of him... Congratulations! Here - you have one on me.
- Rosa Catapoli: [as he tears up his shirts for bandages] But Mr. Dilson...
- Mr. Dilson: So what? Skip it. These make the best bandages in the world... See? Here.
- [Nick stares at him, stunned]
- Mr. Dilson: Well, why not? Look at all you're doin'... Say, you know something? I guess I had you figured all wrong. You're not such a bad guy, after all.
- Nick Catapoli: [sheepishly] ... Is nothing. I don't do too much.
- Rosa Catapoli: You know, long time ago, I was in town and a horse falls down and hurt his leg - and a see a man cry because he's so sorry for the horse. And I ask, "What's that man's name?" And they say, "Nick Catapoli." So, I go home, and - and I write on a piece of paper "Rosa Catapoli". And I like it - so I marry him!
- Nick Catapoli: [giving him a coat] You gonna be cold - you better put this on.
- Hitchhiker: [stunned] But it's yours!
- Nick Catapoli: Is old; he never fit me too good - I gonna throw him away anyhow.
- [first lines]
- First Cowboy: Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way...
- Third Cowboy: Now, ain't we a fine example of three full-growed hombres? "Look at all them pretty doodads in that store window," he says.
- Second Cowboy: Yeah - plum cleaned out that whole store, we did.
- Third Cowboy: Just showin' off to make a impression on that pretty-lookin' sales gal. Well, pardner, here's us a-totin' all this stuff. Now, who do we know to give presents to, anyhow?
- First Cowboy: Oh, shoot. I never took no heed of that pretty girl that sold us these things. All I know was that somethin' inside of me made me feel all fine and warm-like to be doin' it - to be buyin' presents to give to somebody. I knew it was the right thing to do - and I was content.