Yancy Derringer Quotes
John Colton: Since becoming administrator of this city, I've come across a very astonishing fact. From the highest to the lowest places - particularly the lowest - your name is being spoken with the greatest respect.
Yancy Derringer: Well, I've been around the track.
John Colton: I want you to work for me.
Yancy Derringer: I'm a rebel, Mr. Colton.
John Colton: Ex-rebel. The war is over, Mr. Derringer, and these are hard times. New Orleans has become a treasure chest. The fortune hunters of the world are here. I want a man who loves this city, loves the South, who'll work without pay, without portfolio, without protection, as my personal agent.
Yancy Derringer: Sounds like absolutely nothing.
John Colton: I want an angel, a black angel, who'll be on the inside before something happens, a man who'll do anything for law and order, anything and get away with it, because if that man were ever caught, Mr. Derringer, I might be compelled to hang him.
Yancy Derringer: Charming proposition.
Yancy Derringer: Well, I've been around the track.
John Colton: I want you to work for me.
Yancy Derringer: I'm a rebel, Mr. Colton.
John Colton: Ex-rebel. The war is over, Mr. Derringer, and these are hard times. New Orleans has become a treasure chest. The fortune hunters of the world are here. I want a man who loves this city, loves the South, who'll work without pay, without portfolio, without protection, as my personal agent.
Yancy Derringer: Sounds like absolutely nothing.
John Colton: I want an angel, a black angel, who'll be on the inside before something happens, a man who'll do anything for law and order, anything and get away with it, because if that man were ever caught, Mr. Derringer, I might be compelled to hang him.
Yancy Derringer: Charming proposition.
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Yancy Derringer: Well, I declare - a homecoming party.
Amanda Eaton: Yancy, th-there's something I didn't tell you.
Yancy Derringer: Amanda, there have been so many surprises tonight, let me figure this one all by myself.
Amanda Eaton: Yancy, th-there's something I didn't tell you.
Yancy Derringer: Amanda, there have been so many surprises tonight, let me figure this one all by myself.
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Yancy Derringer: You are pushing the Southern Belle pretty hard.
Patricia Tappworth: Scared?
Yancy Derringer: No, ma'am - worried.
Patricia Tappworth: She'll take it.
Yancy Derringer: You realise there have been a series of unexplained accidents on the Mississippi lately.
Patricia Tappworth: The Natchez rammed into a sandbank, the Crescent City blew her boilers, the Paducah burned and the Chauncey L. hit a snag. I'm not a fool.
Yancy Derringer: No, ma'am - foolhardy.
Patricia Tappworth: Scared?
Yancy Derringer: No, ma'am - worried.
Patricia Tappworth: She'll take it.
Yancy Derringer: You realise there have been a series of unexplained accidents on the Mississippi lately.
Patricia Tappworth: The Natchez rammed into a sandbank, the Crescent City blew her boilers, the Paducah burned and the Chauncey L. hit a snag. I'm not a fool.
Yancy Derringer: No, ma'am - foolhardy.
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Yancy Derringer: Oh, by the way, your cousin is alive and well, despite the fact that you neglected to ask.
Hon Lee: My humble apologies.
Yancy Derringer: And she said you were an honorable gentleman.
Hon Lee: Most kind of her.
Yancy Derringer: Well, I'll tell her she's wrong - on both counts.
Hon Lee: My humble apologies.
Yancy Derringer: And she said you were an honorable gentleman.
Hon Lee: Most kind of her.
Yancy Derringer: Well, I'll tell her she's wrong - on both counts.
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Yancy Derringer: Well, Mr. Colton, if you can still read you can see I have been appointed the administrator of New Orleans by the President of the United States. [Colton tears up Yancy's "appointment letter"]
John Colton: Will you stop playing the fool?
Yancy Derringer: In fact, I've been looking for someone to work for me outside of the law, sort of an underground agent, and I have been seriously considering you for the job.
John Colton: Get out of my chair.
John Colton: Will you stop playing the fool?
Yancy Derringer: In fact, I've been looking for someone to work for me outside of the law, sort of an underground agent, and I have been seriously considering you for the job.
John Colton: Get out of my chair.
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[Yancy is playing in a high-stakes poker game with several ships' captains]
Yancy Derringer: Well, I'll just have to call you, Captain Brown.
Captain Brown: Three little mermaids.
Yancy Derringer: Beats my three nines.
Jessie Belle: How goes the battle, Mr. Derringer?
Yancy Derringer: I'm being scuttled.
Yancy Derringer: Well, I'll just have to call you, Captain Brown.
Captain Brown: Three little mermaids.
Yancy Derringer: Beats my three nines.
Jessie Belle: How goes the battle, Mr. Derringer?
Yancy Derringer: I'm being scuttled.
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