- Joe: When a man with .45 meets a man with a rifle, you said, the man with a pistol's a dead man. Let's see if that's true. Go ahead, load up and shoot.
- [last lines]
- Joe: Mmh. Well, guess your government will be glad to see that gold back.
- Silvanito: And you? You don't want to be here when they get it, eh?
- Joe: You mean the Mexican goverment on one side? Maybe the Americans on the other side? Me right smack in the middle? Uhn-hn. Too dangerous. So long.
- Silvanito: Adios.
- Joe: You see, I understand you men were just playin' around, but the mule, he just doesn't get it. Course, if you were to all apologize...
- [Men Laugh]
- Joe: I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.
- Silvanito: I'm alive, and I want to remain with the living, understand? And when I'm dead, I want to remain with the dead. And I would be unhappy if somebody living forces me to remain with the living.
- Chico: Our orders are to make sure he does not die... but also to make sure he regrets the day he was born.
- Esteban Rojo: My name is Esteban Rojo, my bother asked me to... what are you doing?
- Joe: Moving.
- Esteban Rojo: Don't you know all our men sleep here with us?
- Joe: Well that's all very cozy, but I don't find you men all that appealing.
- Don Miguel Rojo: That's the right idea? You didn't misunderstand?
- Joe: I get the wrong idea only when it suits me.
- Ramon Rojo: You are well informed, eh?
- Joe: A man's life in these parts often depends on a mere scrap of information. Your brother's own words.
- Ramon Rojo: Tell me. Why are you doing this for us?
- Joe: [Holds out his hand with a response that is almost a question] Five hundred dollars.
- Joe: Baxter's over there, Rojo's there, me right in the middle.
- Silvanito: Why are you the one?
- Joe: Crazy bell-ringer was right. There's money to be made in a place like this.
- Silvanito: If you're thinking what I suspect, I tell you, don't try it.
- Joe: Which one of the two is stronger?
- Silvanito: Which one of then - is stronger? Well, the Rojos. Especially Ramon.
- John Baxter: Wait! Ramon! We'll pack up we'll leave, anything!
- Ramon Rojo: Are you sure Baxter?
- John Baxter: I swear it Ramon.
- Ramon Rojo: Maybe you should discuss it with your wife. I don't think she'll be too happy!
- [shoots him]
- Baxter gunman #1: [to Joe] Saludos, amigo. It's not smart to go wandering so far from home.
- Baxter Gunman 2: I reckon he picked the wrong trail.
- Baxter gunman #1: Or he could have picked the wrong town.
- Baxter Gunman 2: His big mistake, I think, was getting born.
- Baxter gunman #1: You any work, looking like that, try being a scarecrow.
- Baxter Gunman 2: Oh no, the crows are liable to scare him maybe.
- Joe: [He's hiding in an empty coffin outside the coffin-maker's shop] Come here.
- Piripero: I can't see anybody.
- Joe: Come here!
- Piripero: [Goes over to a coffin on a wagon; Joe is inside] Dios mio!... What are you doing in there?
- Joe: Never mind. Get me out of here.
- Piripero: But, you're not dead yet.
- Joe: I will be, if you don't get me out of here, quick. Get that lid down!
- Joe: [Newly arrived in San Miguel, looking over the town from a balcony] Who are they?
- Silvanito: Hmm. Bandits. Bandits and smugglers. They come down from Texas. They cross the frontier to stock up on guns and liquor. The cost is much less here. Then they go back and sell the guns and liquor to the Indians.
- Joe: Any town that sells guns and liquor has gotta' be a rich one.
- Silvanito: Not the town. Only those who buy and sell, and the bosses are the ones who clean up.
- Joe: Yeah? Somebody has to run the place. Every town has a boss.
- Silvanito: That's true. But when there are two around, then I'd say that there is one too many.
- Joe: "Two" bosses? Very interesting.
- Consuelo Baxter: Don't be worried. I'm a woman who's rich enough to appreciate the men that my money can buy.
- Joe: The dead can be very useful sometimes. They've helped me out of tough spots - more than once. First, they don't talk. Second, they look alive, if I manage it. And third, well, third, if you shoot them there's no worry cause they're dead already.
- Consuelo Baxter: [Directed at the Rojos, who have just slaughtered her family] Murderers. They had no guns. Murderers! I hope you rot in hell! May you and your brothers die spitting blood! Curse you for this! MURDERERS!
- [Esteban Rojo levels his revolver and calmly shoots her]
- Joe: This is all very, very touching.
- Ramon Rojo: You mean you don't admire peace?
- Joe: It's not real easy to like something you know nothing about.
- Silvanito: My roulette wheel. That too was murdered. No one ever comes here to play. We spend our time here between funerals and burials.
- Juan De Dios: Welcome to you, stranger. My name is Juan de Dios. l am the bell-ringer! Why are you here? To see the Rojos? No, not the Royos? Is it the Baxters maybe? No, maybe not even the Baxters. You want to get rich, huh? Well, for that you have come to the right place. If you use your head. That's because everybody here has become very rich. Or, else they are dead.
- Silvanito: I know, you have no money. After all, you just got into town. But if you don't mind doing a little killing, you will no trouble finding someone eager to pay you.
- Silvanito: They've enlisted all the scum that hangs around both sides of the frontier. And they pay in dollars.
- Esteban Rojo: But, I was only thinking...
- Don Miguel Rojo: You must don't think of anything! You let me do the thinking instead.
- Silvanito: Oh, no, wait. I'm coming too. I want to see for myself how you're going to get yourself in trouble.
- Esteban Rojo: You've gone out of your mind, Ramón.
- Ramon Rojo: No, I've come to my senses, Esteban. Believe me. Trust.
- Ramon Rojo: I don't like that Americano. He's too smart to be just a hired fighter.
- Don Miguel Rojo: At shooting a pistol, no one can touch him.
- Ramon Rojo: I can see that. But, someone with that face, works with his gun, you can count on two things. He's fast on the trigger, but he's also intelligent. That makes him too dangerous for you, I think, my brothers.
- Silvanito: Pig, Ramon!
- Joe: Tell me, what's Ramon got to do with them?
- Joe: No one told you? In this part of the world, the story's very old. A happy little family until trouble comes along. And trouble has the name of Ramon. Claiming the husband cheated at cards, which wasn't true, he gets the wife to live with him as hostage.
- Joe: And the husband?
- Silvanito: Oh, him. There's nothing for him to do. The Rojos threatened to kill his little boy, Jesus, and he was forced to accept things.
- Joe: That Ramon is smart.