- Dutch Barnes: Now, listen, I don't want to have to drop a nice loud pineapple on your doorstep. But, if you ask for it, you'll get it. Now, lets you and me be friends, huh?
- Lily 'Lil' Duran: Swell. That'll look great with your picture and fingerprints.
- Dutch Barnes: Don't talk like that, babe. This is libel to get you a necklace.
- Lily 'Lil' Duran: Yeah. Necklace for me and bracelets for you.
- Marriage Clerk: By virtue of the authority vested in me as clerk of the County of Queens, State of New York, I pronounce you man and wife. Two dollars please.
- Lily 'Lil' Duran: Well, this racket you're complainin' of was started by a mug named Dutch Barnes. He did it when his brewery laid and egg.
- Lily 'Lil' Duran: Listen, Mr. District Attorney, I ain't yella. If I was I wouldn't have gone to Sheffner with that evidence. I'm just a girl tryin' to get along and keep her figure and they tell me bullet holes ain't bein' worn this season.
- Lefty: What's eatin' the kid?
- Dutch Barnes: Thinks he's gonna quit.
- Lefty: What do you think?
- Dutch Barnes: I think he ain't.
- Dutch Barnes: I thought I put some sense into you. Now, get this, I sometimes drop a guy, see, but nobody ever quits. You understand?
- Dutch Barnes: Lefty, what's our racket?
- Lefty: Beer!
- Dutch Barnes: Beer, huh, you're five minutes late. We're going in the drug business.
- Lefty: Not me. I got a brother doing twenty years for going into the drug racket and all they found on him was two decks of coke.
- Mae LaRue: [Bursting in on Dutch and Lil in Dutch's office] I told you he was in!
- [Sizing up the situation]
- Mae LaRue: Hello, lover.
- Dutch Barnes: [Straightening his tie nervously] Hello, Mae.
- Lily 'Lil' Duran: Hello Mae? You bet he's in; he's in my hair.
- [turning to Dutch]
- Lily 'Lil' Duran: Why you double-crossing, two-timing slug. So that's why you want to send me to Europe, huh?
- Dutch Barnes: Now wait a minute, honey, wait a minute.
- Lily 'Lil' Duran: Oh, wait a minute - breezin' me off so you can play post office with this queen. What gutter'dja pick her out of?
- Mae LaRue: [Doing a Mae West hand-on-hip hair fluff] I don't believe I know you.
- Lily 'Lil' Duran: [Kicking her in the rump] Well how's this for an introduction?
- Mae LaRue: Why I'll knock your head off and throw it right in...
- [They start to wrestle]
- Lily 'Lil' Duran: You and what army?
- [They continue fighting and hair-pulling and yelling at each other. After thirty seconds or so, Dutch intervenes]
- Dutch Barnes: [Pushing the women apart] Now listen, you two dames. What's the matter with ya?
- Lefty: [to Slim] Get Jimmy.
- [Lefty and Dutch go into the next room and close the door]
- Dutch Barnes: [to Lefty] *There's* a couplea phone numbers for the ashcan!
- Lefty: Maybe we'd better go in for nail files.
- [as a next line of business]
- Dutch Barnes: Shut up. Where's Jimmy?
- Lefty: Slim's sending him in.
- Jimmy Morrell: [Entering] Mr. Barnes, what's happened?
- Dutch Barnes: My tomatoes blew up.
- Dutch Barnes: Now, listen. You're dying of starvation, ain't you? You ain't got enough dough in your cash register to buy your kitten cream.
- Norma Nelson: Oh, Mrs. Fagan, what a lovely boy.
- Mrs. Fagan: Not lovely, Miss Nelson, good natured. He's my sister's child. I come in to get some plaster for his ears.
- Norma Nelson: Plaster for his ears?
- Mrs. Fagan: Adhesive plaster. Just look at them ears.
- Norma Nelson: Well, they are sort of large.
- Mrs. Fagan: Large? Why, he was two years old before his mother knew whether he was going to walk or fly!
- [first lines]
- Norma Nelson: [scooping ice cream] That'll be six cents now.
- Boy Buying Ice Cream: *Six* cents? You mean, with everything going down, ice cream cones gotta go up?
- Norma Nelson: That's a sales tax - government gets it.
- Boy Buying Ice Cream: The government? What for?
- Norma Nelson: Why, for the support of the government!
- Boy Buying Ice Cream: You mean, because I like ice cream cones, I gotta support the government?... Ohhh, I gotta support the government... My pop can remember when ice cream cones were only three cents.
- Norma Nelson: My father can remember when there weren't any ice cream cones.
- Man Requesting Change: Hi ya, Beautiful.
- Norma Nelson: Okay, what your's?
- Man Requesting Change: Nothing you can bring me on a plate, baby. A pair of nickels, honey, I want to phone.
- [Norma gives him the change, rolls her eyes]
- Man Requesting Change: Thanks, babe.
- Norma Nelson: Well, the Depression's over.
- Jimmy Morrell: Yeah?
- Norma Nelson: I just made a 15 cent sale.
- Lefty: Give me a bottle of Hercules beer.
- Norma Nelson: No can do. I can give you Blue Seal or Nightclub.
- Lefty: I want Hercules.
- Norma Nelson: Well, I want a seal skin coat too, but I can't have it.
- Dutch Barnes: How did you get in?
- Lily 'Lil' Duran: [points at the door] They're still using that for an entrance, aren't they?
- Dutch Barnes: I didn't think you came in through the window.
- Lily 'Lil' Duran: Oh, that's been done too.
- Dutch Barnes: I never use my own judgment. I'm pretty easy, see. But, if you can fool those mugs in there, you're doing something.
- Jimmy Morrell: But, I can't make Pearly Dent toothpaste. That wouldn't be honest.
- Dutch Barnes: All you have to do is make the stuff and keep your mouth shut. We'll do the rest.
- Jimmy Morrell: How are you, honey?
- Norma Nelson: It's a wonder you wouldn't come around and see me sometime.
- Dutch Barnes: Now, look, Jimmy, here's a few hundred dollars. I want you to go out and buy a flock of samples. You know, all the junk that women use: compacts, perfume, powder, see. I tell you what you do, buy it in your own store. Nothing like keeping the money in the family, huh?
- Dutch Barnes: That should be a swell trip, honey.
- Lily 'Lil' Duran: Gee, think of me going to Europe.
- Dutch Barnes: I am, baby.
- Dutch Barnes: I tell you what we'll do, we'll make the only antiseptic in the world that ain't antiseptic.
- Jimmy Morrell: Of course I knew it was wrong, but, well, when you get mixed up with racketeers, Mr. Sheffner, it isn't easy to quit.
- Dutch Barnes: Jimmy, how would you like a little bonus, huh?
- Jimmy Morrell: Bonus?
- Dutch Barnes: A grand. A thousand bucks. You're a swell kid. I want to help you. I want to help you get somewhere. But, you've got to play ball with me.
- Dutch Barnes: Take it off your mind, kid. You're all hopped up. Now, the cops don't know anything about this job - and they won't. Only right now the heats on. Thought I'd drop around and tip you off. Don't make any phone calls and don't go out.
- Mr. Sheffner: Somebody'll have to spot the dame for me. I wouldn't know her if was to trip over her.
- Norma Nelson: Doctor, do you know anything for expectant fathers?
- Norma's Doctor: For expectant fathers, I have to prescriptions: whiskey or work. In this case, I suggest work.
- Dutch Barnes: When I want to know anything, I'll ask you. In the meantime, you make the stuff the best way you can. And remember what I told you. I takin' no squawks.
- Jimmy Morrell: This is no squawk. I won't do it!
- [last lines]
- Jimmy Morrell: That's what we're here for: To give people what they want. Credit, gossip, stamps... medical advice, slugs for the telephone. We're gonna be just a neighborhood drugstore again. I don't know. I may never be a success - but I'll never be a sap again.
- Norma Nelson: Never?
- Jimmy Morrell: Well, hardly ever.
- [kiss]
- Jimmy Morrell: Black snakes aren't poisonous.
- Boy Buying Ice Cream: Black snakes ain't poisonoua? Listen - if a black snake can make you jump off a fifty-foot cliff, it don't have to be.