- Wilkie Ballou: Your theory's full of holes. It won't hold water!
- Charlie Chan: Sponge is full of holes. Sponge holds water.
- Charlie Chan: [solemnly] There is old saying, 'Death is a black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate.' Tonight black camel knelt here.
- Alan Jaynes: [angrily] Look here, Inspector, I haven't time to sit around for Chinese picture puzzles! My ship sails at midnight!
- Charlie Chan: You are rejected suitor.
- Alan Jaynes: But I've given you an airtight alibi.
- Charlie Chan: Sorry, but alibi have habit of disappearing like hole in water.
- Charlie Chan: Kashimo, I despair trying to make you smart man. Soap and water never can change perfume of billy goat.
- Kashimo: [smiling] Yes!
- Charlie Chan: [in car being driven by Chan] May I ask your, uh, continued assistance? Sometimes very difficult to pick up pumpkin with one finger.
- Tarneverro: [reacting to Chan's poor driving] Have you been driving long?
- Charlie Chan: No. At first I'm pretty bad driver. But now me and road turn corner same time.
- Charlie Chan: [after finding a desperate letter from the murdered woman] Always happens- When conscience tries to speak, telephone out of order.
- Charlie Chan: A thousand pardons. Assault and battery not permitted without license from boxing commission.
- Kashimo: Think we make mistake?
- Charlie Chan: Who can say? Even wisest man sometimes mistake bumblebee for blackberry.
- Tarneverro: Would you be surprised if I asked you to arrest a murderer?
- Charlie Chan: No, all foxes come at last to fur store.