- Lucy Johnson: Officer, I'd like to file a complaint.
- Officer Bob Johnson: Well, madam?
- Lucy Johnson: I haven't been kissed all day!
- Nick Scanlon: [talking about sending his brother to four colleges] The last one I had to buy him a chair. Ah, not like that.
- [kicks chair]
- Nick Scanlon: Endowment they call it. Professor's graft. And it's stiff, too. An endowed chair in civic, to get him his... em... uh, whaddaya call it... uh...
- Captain Thomas McQuigg: Diploma.
- Nick Scanlon: Diploma! I got it okay.
- Nick Scanlon: [speaking about all he did for his younger brother] I sent him to four colleges. Four!
- Booking Sgt. Sullivan: [booking Joe Scanlon, then examining the gun he was caught with] Receipt for your toy, sonny. My granddaughter could use that for a paperweight - in her kindergarden.
- Paradise Club Manager: [Irene singing in the background] That? To meet Irene Hayes?
- Dave Ames: Just an introduction.
- Paradise Club Manager: You want a receipt or a mortgage?
- Dave Ames: [Holding a solitary bill in his fingers] What's... What's wrong with a tip?
- Paradise Club Manager: [Looking down at the money] It's so lonely.
- [Snatches the money away anyway]
- Officer Bob Johnson: [after killing two henchmen sent to kill him] A confession would have been better.