- Peckinpaugh: Next time you see somebody drop money, don't think about it so long before you decide to give it back.
- Al Judge: I couldn't quite tell for sure, but I got the impression you were packing a gun.
- George La Main: I still am.
- Al Judge: In that case I guess I can take the time to find out whatever your beef is, or were you just planning to shoot me without letting me in on the secret?
- George La Main: Why's he get so burned up just 'cause I talk about Frances? She hasn't been around in a couple weeks. More. The way they were getting along, I thought they'd end up being married.
- Flanagan: How long you, your dad and I live together?
- George La Main: About sixteen years, since my mother died.
- Flanagan: Yeah, since then. Sixteen years to learn better than to ask me something that your father won't tell you.
- George La Main: You don't have to know people long. I mean... Well, doesn't it ever happen to you? You meet somebody and you take one look and you know they're all right.
- Marion Rostina: I mean, each of us has got secret things deep inside, and if we don't have someone we can share them with, we usually go all haywire. That's what I mean by lonely.
- George La Main: Were you laughing at me? Were you still thinking I was wet behind the ears and smelled of milk? Were ya?