- Anthony R. Morgan: Charlie, what can one man do against the entire legal force of the state?
- Charlie Chan: Ancient proverb say, "One small wind can raise much dust."
- Charlie Chan: Please continue.
- Mrs. Foss: That's all I have to say.
- Charlie Chan: That's what woman always say, yet go right on talking.
- Birmingham Brown: [Driving] Mr. Chan, is this the shortest way to prison?
- Charlie Chan: No, shortest way is commit crime.
- Birmingham Brown: Hurry? Why do you always have to hurry to a murder? Why can't you just ooze on down to one?
- Charlie Chan: [to Birmingham and Tommy] Always sitting! Wish you would wear out brains instead of seat of pants.
- Tommy Chan: Pop, we have been thinking...
- Charlie Chan: Most impossible.
- Birmingham Brown: Oh, yes sir, Mr. Chan. We've been thinkin'.
- Charlie Chan: And now you have a headache.
- Charlie Chan: [Encouraging June] Remember old saying: "Earthquake may shatter rock, but sand upon which rock stood still right there in same old place."
- Charlie Chan: You two not afraid?
- Tommy Chan: Afraid of what, Pop?
- Charlie Chan: That you sit down so often you get concussion of brain.
- Tommy Chan: Pop, I got a swell idea!
- Charlie Chan: Good. Save it for old age.
- Mrs. Foss: Being a detective is an ugly trade.
- Charlie Chan: Ugliest trade sometimes have moment of joy. Even gravedigger know some people for whom he would do his work with extreme pleasure.
- Emily Evans: Listen, are you trying to pin something on me?
- Charlie Chan: [holding her skimpy dance costume] No, merely at moment trying to figure how you pin upon yourself such very few feathers.
- Tommy Chan: You don't even know what a lawsuit is.
- Birmingham Brown: Sure I do. It's something that the police wears.
- Tommy Chan: I see where the bullets are coming from.
- Birmingham Brown: Yeah, but I don't wanna look no bullets in the eye.