- George Bellow Ferguson: Look! This, Dean Light, is a petticoat. And these here are net stockings. And here is a pair of cheap lace bloomers. Frills and furbelows! All garments designed to confuse the minds of men! Weak men! And you are weak. And because you're weak, I've lost three of my best men!
- George Bellow Ferguson: I understand you're supposed to be my brother. That's not exactly a compliment to the memory of Jefferson Lucius Ferguson, my father. Or should I say, uh, *our* father?
- George Bellow Ferguson: Dean, you're a bright boy. Let me give you a piece of advice. Forget about women. They don't let a man think. And a man has to. He must be able to build, create, and not be distracted by inferior beings.
- [to bartender]
- George Bellow Ferguson: Tom, two whiskeys. Yes, inferior beings. Because they're morons, animals, whose main purpose is to reproduce. That's why I married Edith - to have an heir. But my wife couldn't even fulfill that function.
- Lope: Listen to me, I don't know what you intend to do with that pistol but I wouldn't want to see anyone make you eat it.
- George Bellow Ferguson: So you don't like it, do you? Well, you want to know what it is that I don't like? That among all of you there doesn't exist one ounce of that rather special virtue called honor! To think that I helped out vermin like you! Remember when you were deep in debt, Babcock? And you came to me begging for help? Well, who was it who honored those debts? George Bellow Ferguson, that's who. And you Robson, Doctor Robson, honored member of the medical profession! But only because the lawyers of George Bellow Ferguson got you acquitted when you were about to be hung by your scrawny neck for murder! And you, Judge Herryman, your honor. Would you be quite so honorable if one George Bellow Ferguson hadn't pulled you out of the gutters of Austin when you were a hopeless, stinking alcoholic? Oh, yes. Honorable men today, all of you - because your friend's name is George Bellow Ferguson. But your honor is only an escutcheon, while mine is a way of life. You all make me want to vomit!