- Andrew Morton: Until we do away with the type of neighborhood that produced this boy, ten will spring up to take his place, a hundred, a thousand. Until we wipe out the slums and rebuild them, knock on any door and you may find Nick Romano.
- Distict Attorney Kerman: Was there a floor show that night at the bar?
- Butch: There was a dame - a lady.
- Distict Attorney Kerman: Was the lady a blonde or brunette?
- Butch: You think I was looking at her hair?
- Andrew Morton: I could still teach you a few, kid. You're just a tin-horned thug and you always will be. You haven't got the guts to be anything else!
- Adele Morton: If I were as cynical as you, I'd hang myself.
- Andrew Morton: I would be too cynical to trust the rope.