- The Tong Leader: Have you ever had your bones scraped, Captain? It is painful in the extreme I can assure you.
- Tang How - Tong Leader's Aide: Why is it these Occidentals indulge their vices the same way they run their lives, full of noise and vulgarity?
- The Tong Leader: It's fortunate that they should choose to indulge in these vices. It gives us the opportunity to gratify them.
- Tang How - Tong Leader's Aide: The police have been called in.
- The Tong Leader: The police? The police have been ineffectual for the last hundred years, and will doubtless continue to be so.
- Tang Hao, tong enforcer: [to Jackson as he fakes illness to pull a gun] You underestimate the Oriental mind, Captain. The Chinese theater is the oldest in the world.