- Johnny Eager: Oh, now don't turn ordinary on me. I get tired of ordinary dames. And I don't want to get tired of you.
- John Benson Farrell: You couldn't stop being a thief any more than a weasel could stop sucking chicken blood.
- Garnet: Is there any dame you haven't got in your pocket?
- Johnny Eager: You don't feel crowded do you Sugar?
- Garnet: [Quizzing a drooped over Jeff whose nose is stuffed inside a coffee cup] Hangover?
- Jeff Hartnett: Not in the least. I feel like fighting Joe Louis or adopting some other form of quick suicide.
- Jeff Hartnett: Poor Garnet. She'll hang around in Florida eating her heart out until it finally dawns on her that Lancelot is not coming. Johnny, why didn't you tell her the truth, the poor kid?
- Johnny Eager: Poor Garnet? I thought you didn't like her?
- Jeff Hartnett: I don't.
- Johnny Eager: Well, then, why do you feel sorry for her?
- Jeff Hartnett: Well, Johnny, you can feel sorry for someone you don't like - if you've got a heart or soul or decency.
- Garnet: Well, did you break your finger and can't dial a phone? In case your memory's bad you were going to stop by or call last night. You know I worried. You know you're a character that can always have an accident. Oh, I sat by that phone wondering whether you were laying somewhere full of bullet holes.
- Matilda: That Miss Bard, anytime you wanna whistle, she'll come running.
- Johnny Eager: Forget that!
- Matilda: Anytime you wanna whistle. I watched her eyes. You watched 'em too. You know it.
- Garnet: Well, you're not exactly Romeo.
- Johnny Eager: You're not exactly Juliet.
- Garnet: You might say you like it.
- Johnny Eager: Anytime I don't like it, you'll hear me loud and clear.
- Johnny Eager: Look, Billy, can you just keep on dumping the ash trays and bringing in the ham and eggs, I'll dress myself.
- Billiken: But, look boss, I'm supposed to be a gentleman's gentleman or somethin'. Now, ain't I? You gotta take my ad-vice about these things.
- Johnny Eager: Behave.
- Johnny Eager: If I give you any more you'll just put it on the horses or give it to that dame of yours. You stop playing sucker and we'll talk about a deal.
- Judy Sanford: Isn't that Eager individual the handsomest thing you ever saw?
- Lisbeth Bard: I don't think handsome is just the word. His face is well cut, but, once for a moment there, it became hard. I think he'd beat a woman if she made him angry. I wonder?
- Judy Sanford: What?
- Lisbeth Bard: Oh, what sort of a woman he goes around with.
- Benjy: That Julio gives me the creeps. I don't mind tapping the guy out if he's got it comin'. That Julio gets a big kick out of it. Like every time he was bein' knocked down by some swell lookin' dame.
- Johnny Eager: This town's liable to explode on me any minute, I've got four million things to think about, and you want to talk about love at four o'clock in the afternoon.
- Johnny Eager: Why do you keep pouring that stuff into you?
- Jeff Hartnett: I told you. Every now and then I've got to look in the mirror.
- Johnny Eager: Say Jeff. You know these things. That guy - Cy - Cyrano - Cyrano de Bergerac or somethin'. Does a dame really fall for the type of chatter he gave out?
- Jeff Hartnett: Are you starting to encounter literate dames?
- Johnny Eager: Who said anything about dames?
- Johnny Eager: You'll wake up dead one of these days.
- Jeff Hartnett: Well, everybody does - sooner or later.
- Johnny Eager: Now, look. This town's sizzling, Sugar, and I'm going to have to walk awful soft. This new prosecutor's going to make things so tough I'll have to keep moving like a - like a light mouse in a revolving cage.
- Johnny Eager: One of these days you're going to start picking me apart and I'll slap you up from between your ears.
- Jeff Hartnett: My condition renders me immune to assault.
- Johnny Eager: You're always telling me I don't understand something or other. But, you're the guy who doesn't understand, because you're a sucker and a sucker never understands a smart guy. If you weren't a chump for booze, you'd probably be a chump for some dame. Yeah, decent and pure about it too, until she walked off with some bald headed bankroll and had you back on the booze again.
- Marco: Listen, Johnny, this is no good. She's dangerous. Besides it isn't like you to blow your topper over some dame - especially when things are going haywire.
- John Benson Farrell: You made the typical thief mistake: you banked too much on an honest man's honesty.
- Johnny Eager: This town's full of women and I had to pick the most dangerous one in town. The one woman most likely to upset my apple cart.
- Johnny Eager: Oh, now don't turn ordinary on me. I get tired of ordinary dames. I don't ever want to get tired of you.
- Lisbeth Bard: I didn't mean to turn ordinary on you, Johnny. It was just an approach to get you to say you love me.
- Johnny Eager: Jeff, from here on we're in clover.
- Jeff Hartnett: In high hats, crawling under the stomach of our favorite snake.
- Johnny Eager: You told him about us?
- Mae Blythe: Oh, sure. I think he'd black my eye if he'd knew about this. Sure I told him, Johnny. I had to be honest with him. You see, I love the guy.
- Johnny Eager: Love. Grade A. Pasteurized. I get it, kid.
- Mae Blythe: No you don't. You don't get it at all. You don't even know what I'm talking about. So long, Johnny.
- Johnny Eager: She's no different from any other dame. A little better quality, I'll admit. But, just a kid, after all, Just a kid who thinks she's carrying a torch.
- Johnny Eager: Its the last job you do for me. There's five yards in it.
- Julio: I ought to do it for free for old times sake. But, I could use 500.
- Johnny Eager: See what I mean about a sucker? There comes a time he doesn't keep his eyes on the ball.
- Jeff Hartnett: An eight ball, Johnny. That's all right. I'm glad.
- Johnny Eager: You better start drinking again.
- Jeff Hartnett: When a woman loves like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.