- Johnny Yuma: I'm a pretty respectable fella, Johnny Yuma. Just ask anybody in the territory.
- Demetria Angelica: But you are a man, Senor!
- Johnny Yuma: What would you know about men?
- Demetria Angelica: I considered this whole subject in my last year at the convent. Horrible!
- Johnny Yuma: I expect you girls built us up a little.
- Demetria Angelica: For the love of heaven, Senor Yuma, to be alone with me, day and night, for perhaps a week in the desert, no man alive could keep such a vow.
- Johnny Yuma: Well, all I can do is try. That is, if you don't keep bringing up the details.
- Johnny Yuma: Wipe your nose, son, I'll take you wherever you're headed.
- Demetria Angelica: And what of my reputation, Senor?
- Demetria Angelica: We both know very good why your hands tremble. Mine tremble when I'm near you also.
- Johnny Yuma: Huh?
- Demetria Angelica: Is that all you can say to a beautiful declaration: huh? Am I an old woman on a broomstick? Never once since we are alone, you take me in your arms like a maniac and kiss me helpless!
- Demetria Angelica: In the convent, we are taught embroidery, refined conversation, and the care and feeding, if you'll pardon the expression, of babies. But to look through a fan, to hold a rose on the teeth, to sing the songs of love, all these things, any daughter of Mexico is proficient from the day's she's born. Wait! I will show you the Spanish dance!
- Don Diego: We accept your assurances as you stood here before us with your closest secrets all laid bare before the sight of heaven.
- Johnny Yuma: Don Diego, if everything was open and known, nobody but the Good Lord would shake hands with any of us.
- Padre: True, true. Gracias. Your words have edified us, Senor.
- Don Diego: My grandson is only a fretful child. I have seen a fearless caballero who pays himself for the honour and dignity of my household. The obligation is eternal, Senor.
- Johnny Yuma: [She has been espousing her plans for their elopement] Where would I get a ladder?
- Demetria Angelica: Senor, in a country where there are many chaperons, there are also many ladders.
- Johnny Yuma: You out of your mind? Ronaldo is watching us like a sidewinder.
- Demetria Angelica: Ronaldo is a very nice boy. But you are a nice man.
- Johnny Yuma: Well, right now, that boy is fixing to slice up the nice man's liver.
- Don Diego: You know in Spanish we have a book by Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote, a comedy of a knight who suffered every imaginable mischance and humiliation. But one does not altogether laugh, for always into the eyes come tears for the unpretending nobility of his soul.