- Verity Wade: It's these folks. They're all so wonderful.
- Hank Martin: Well, all folks is wonderful. You just have to know the right place to kick 'em in.
- Verity Wade: What?
- Hank Martin: Sure. It's like learnin' to play a musical instrument by ear. All you gotta know is what place to push to get what note. Then pretty soon, everybody's dancin'...to your tune.
- Hank Martin: Polli, anyone ever warn you - Flamingo ever warn you about makin' a house pet of a wildcat?
- Guy Polli: I don't believe she ever mentioned it.
- Hank Martin: Well, you might get bit.
- Hank Martin: [Angrily] Castleberry, there's a disease called Pellegra. You ever hear how it's ommunicated?
- Verity Wade: Hank, we were talkin' about the house...
- Hank Martin: It's communicated by not gettin' enough to eat, and it's very common in counties where your cotton gins are.
- [to Jules]
- Hank Martin: Jules, I'm very sorry. I don't mean any offense to you, but my wife and I can't eat where a man what's been committin' pellegra.
- Jules Bolduc: Well, I don't...
- Robert L. Castleberry IV: I think I do. Would you mind explainin' your remark, sir?
- Hank Martin: Not at all. I'm callin' you a thief... a blood-suckin' thief!
- Jules Bolduc: Hank, that's enough. You know very well there's a state inspection board that takes care of them things.
- Hank Martin: What I wanna know is who inspects the inspectors?
- Jules Bolduc: Governor Charles Swindon inspects the inspectors. He's a self-made man just like you, and he's my friend... and he's honest, just like Robert Castleberry, who also happens to be my godfather.
- Hank Martin: Well, Jules, I never had no godfather, and I was almost too poor to have a father, so I must be poor, and you must be vey. very, right.