- Matt Dillon: I was wonderin' if you were going to come to say goodbye.
- Kitty Russell: I was wonderin' too. It isn't easy.
- Matt Dillon: No, Kitty, it isn't.
- Kitty Russell: Matt, I-I don't you want to think... Well, it isn't that it's...
- Matt Dillon: Kitty, we've never needed explanations, have we?
- Kitty Russell: No. Goodbye, Matt
- Matt Dillon: Goodbye, Kitty
- Dr. Galen Adams: Kitty, I know this has been harder on you then anybody. He's going to be all right. I promise.
- Kitty Russell: What about next time, Doc? What can you promise me about that?
- Matt Dillon: You know, Kitty, it's really been good seeing you again. Maybe when all this is over and I get back...
- [his sentence is incomplete as Kitty responds]
- Kitty Russell: I'll be here.
- [as Matt closes the door behind him]
- Kitty Russell: Aren't I always?
- [first lines]
- [to two young Indian boys]
- Logan: Git!
- [to Dillon, who is carrying a bale of furs]
- Logan: Them papooses - I'd keep 'em out if I was you. If it ain't nailed down, they'll steal it.
- Matt Dillon: They live here.
- Logan: Well, I guess a squaw is better than no woman a'tall, huh?
- Matt Dillon: You were given 15 years in territorial prison, Logan. What are you doin' out?
- Logan: Lookin' for you. Been a long look, Dillon, but I promised myself I'd pay you back. Here I am.
- Matt Dillon: Mister, you aren't the first gunny come lookin' for me. There's two more buried out in back there. Now you better drop the gunbelt.
- Logan: Now why should I do that?
- Matt Dillon: 'Cause I got one aimed right at your belly.
- Logan: You gotta be desperate runnin' a bluff like that.
- [Dillon shoots the cup out of Logan's hand]
- Matt Dillon: Drop the gun... Now that hideout gun that's holdin' up your backbone.
- Logan: You don't leave a man a lot, do you, Marshal?
- Matt Dillon: Mister, you didn't bring a whole lot with ya!
- Logan: What's that I hear?
- Matt Dillon: Oh, that's just a little whitewater up ahead.
- Logan: I can't swim!
- Matt Dillon: You can walk can't you?
- Logan: Walk?
- Matt Dillon: Yeah. You have to make two trips. First you take these pelts down around the rapids, then you come back and carry the canoe. It's only a couple of miles.
- Logan: Carry the canoe? The hell I will!
- Matt Dillon: The hell you won't.
- [Matt has just knocked out a young Army officer who tried to arrest him]
- Matt Dillon: I'm sorry, Lieutenant, but I don't have time to play games.
- Bright Water, Jake Flagg's Daughter: He was looking for my father, too?
- Matt Dillon: That's right. Bright Water will you look after him? The boy is as green as they come, but he does have backbone. One of these days, he'll make a hell of an officer.
- Bright Water, Jake Flagg's Daughter: A blue belly?
- Matt Dillon: A blue belly who near got himself killed lookin' out for you.
- Matt Dillon: Glad ya came. You're lookin' great.
- Kitty Russell: You cut that out.
- Matt Dillon: What?
- Kitty Russell: You listen to me, cowboy. I've got you out from underneath my fingernails and you're gonna stay out. Do you hear me?
- Matt Dillon: Yes, ma'am... Kitty, I understand the rules and all, but it doesn't mean we can't still be friends, does it?
- Kitty Russell: Friends? Friends? I'm staying at the Long Branch while I'm in town, so when you feel up to it, I might even buy you a beer.