- Paladin: Well, sir, I dislike being identified as a butcher. I dislike intensely the idea of these two knocking my head in.
- Colonel Draco: Mr Paladin moves like a dancer.
- [Mr Paladin has taken on all the town's bullies upon arrival]
- Paladin: If memory serves me properly, the belief is that if the saint receives a gift he favours, he will perform a miracle.
- Myra Draco: And what gift do you bring, Mr Paladin? Death?
- Colonel Draco: Now that you're here, your legs will be my legs. Your eyes, my eyes. And your gun, my gun.
- Paladin: No, Colonel, this has been a very bad mistake. I don't hire out for hatred. I don't hire out for revenge.