- Mary Turner: Why does a man always choose the most innocent flowers when he's up to the blackest villainy?
- Mug Shot Photographer: This joint is full of dames like you that we got that say we got no right; but, they're here ain't they?
- Joe Garson: Would you like a little shot of booze? I got some I could swear to.
- Mary Turner: No, thanks. I'm not much given to drinking anything.
- Joe Garson: It's a good idea. A moll that guzzles is a moll that gabs. And I can't have nothin' but deaf and dumb gals around me.
- Joe Garson: Say, you look good to me.
- Mary Turner: Do I? It makes it better, doesn't it?
- Joe Garson: Uh-hu. How do I look to you?
- Mary Turner: Well, I'm here, aren't I?
- Joe Garson: And don't I know it.
- Joe Garson: You know, you burn me up.
- Mary Turner: I guess you've known lots of girls, haven't you?
- Joe Garson: Oh, you know, comin' and goin'. But, I'm crazy to get one to hang on to. And I think you're it.
- Joe Garson: [after facing a frigid Mary] I'm wise. You ain't a regular. You're only a volunteer. I just got you.
- Mary Turner: But, I - I - well, I don't know what you mean?
- Joe Garson: You ain't never - you know what I mean. That's right, ain't it?
- Mary Turner: Well, yes.
- Joe Garson: I thought I had you pegged.
- Joe Garson: I wasn't wise then.
- Mary Turner: And now?
- Joe Garson: Wise as a tree full of owls, that's me.
- Bob Gilder: I lied to you about coming here. And I'd have made love to you, if you'd let me. Because, you're in my heart and soul. And I don't much care of what happens to you or me, so long as I'm with you.
- Mary Turner: That comes too easy, Bob, - and too late.
- Bob Gilder: Oh, that's the trouble with lunatics like me. We say things we don't mean so much that we can't put any real feeling over when we need to most.
- Agnes Lynch: Listen, big boy, you ain't got any right crashin' in a private home with a lot of stress. This ain't Russia!
- Police Sergeant Cassidy: She's pretty smart. But, the smart ones slip too. And that little tramp ain't no exception.
- Joe Garson: That little - what did you call her?
- Police Sergeant Cassidy: Oh, you've been playin' Mama and Papa with her?
- Police Sergeant Cassidy: Smarter birds than you have tried to cross me - and they're all up in the old home right now wonderin' how it happened.
- Prison Matron: [walking prisoners to the communal showers] All right girls, disrobe. - - I said disrobe!
- Female Prisoner: Oh, what do you think we're doin'?
- Prison Matron: I mean this girl!
- [Mary disrobes]
- Red: Some dick's comin' up here!
- Agnes Lynch: What's he want?
- Joe Garson: I knew that last racket was too hot!
- Mary Turner: You lost your head again, Joe, with Cassidy.
- Joe Garson: I'm sorry, Mary. But, every time I see that big monkey, I want to twist his tail!
- Mary Turner: That's an old gag, Joe. When they haven't anything on you, they'll pick a fight. Then, the first thing you know, you're jugged for assault.
- Mary Turner: Don't ever do it again, Joe. Not even for me. We're playing it safe now. You're gonna lose your head once too often and we're all going for a ride.
- Joe Garson: Listen, any time anybody makes a crack about you, they're gonna get clipped.
- Mary Turner: Four years ago you took away my name and gave me a number. Now, I've given up that number and I've got your name!
- Eddie Griggs: Ever hear of a painting called the Mona Lisa?
- Mary Turner: You mean the one that was stolen out of the Louvre?
- Eddie Griggs: That's the big museum in Paris. Well, I know where I can lay my hands on it in an hour.
- Mary Turner: How can you when they found it and took it back?
- Eddie Griggs: The French claim they found it to save their face. But, what went back is a fake. The real Mona Lisa's hanging in a library of a certain millionaire right here in this town.
- Joe Garson: Well, what of it?
- Eddie Griggs: I know where I can get 200 hundred grand for it tomorrow. That's what of it!
- Red: $200,000 for a daffy painting?
- Joe Garson: What about Mary?
- Red: Mary ain't runnin' me. And, besides, I got my future to think about. And a blonde that goes through a $100 bill like a rabbit eatin' lettuce.
- Inspector Burke: She's already left town. On her own accord.
- Edward Gilder: When?
- Inspector Burke: Why, she took the 20th Century this afternoon. I expect you'll find her in in Chicago.
- Police Sergeant Cassidy: Hello, Aggie.
- Agnes Lynch: Well, I was sittin' pretty until you horned in, old kidney foot. Why ain't you out stealin' peanuts off the push carts?
- Police Sergeant Cassidy: That'll do it from you. That'll do.
- Inspector Burke: Now, what do you say?
- Agnes Lynch: I say you can take a running jump at a galloping goose! Say, what made you guys think I'd turn stool pigeon? Is it my shape or what?
- Inspector Burke: It's very rare you see a real romance in this racket.
- Mary Turner: What are you leading up to now, Inspector?
- Inspector Burke: Only this, it occurs to me that you owe your husband an even break; because, there are no bridal suites where you're headed for.
- Joe Garson: You know what undertaker's he's at?
- Inspector Burke: Why?
- Joe Garson: Why, I'd like to send him some flowers.
- Inspector Burke: That's real white of you, Joe.
- Joe Garson: Only I don't know whether these florist sell stinkweed.