- Cigarette Girl: Cigarette?
- Shaft: No, thank you. What else can you help me with?
- Cigarette Girl: Well, I'm off at four o'clock.
- Shaft: What are you buzzards doing here?
- Bumpy Jonas: Well, well. Ha. We go to a lot of funerals, Shaft, Willy and me. One day, we'll drop in on yours.
- Willy: Real soon.
- Shaft: You're not invited.
- Gus Mascola: Have you considered renewing your partnership with Cal Asby?
- Johnny Kelly: Come on, man. He's dead!
- Gus Mascola: Precisely.
- Gus Mascola: You looking for me? I've been hearing quite a bit about you, Mr. Shaft. You're a - quite a boy.
- Shaft: I prefer man.
- Gus Mascola: Alright, man.
- Shaft: Has Kelly been around here to see you lately?
- Bumpy Jonas: Lots of cats come and go around here.
- Shaft: So, what do you want from me, Captain?
- Capt. Bollin: Put the word out. Nobody better try to come in here and mess up the status quo. And nobody's comin' in here to sell sh*t to our kids or put whores on our streets.
- Cabaret Dancer: I'm not a gamblin' woman.
- Shaft: I'm a gamblin' man.
- Cabaret Dancer: I thought it was my action you were diggin' here. I never took you for a gambler.
- Johnny Kelly: We made a deal.
- Gus Mascola: And I just called it off. You see, Mr. Kelly, I made a sort of a house call with Mr. Shaft. It didn't work out so well. It cost me a dead second cousin and a friend's kid brother with two hits in the chest.
- Gus Mascola: Oh, honey, you sure were right about that water bed. Wow!
- Mascola's Girl: I thought you'd dig that, baby.
- Johnny Kelly: Where the hell you been with the goddamn elevator?
- Old Lady: [sweetly and softly] You oughtn't not talk to a lady that way.
- [angrily]
- Old Lady: Where are your fuckin' manners, anyways?
- Johnny Kelly: I wanna see your boss.
- Willy: What about?
- Johnny Kelly: Insurance.
- Willy: Only insurance he need is me, sweet pea.
- Numbers Runner: Hey, man, please man, don't don't don't shoot me. Hey, hey, look man, take the money. I got a wife and six kids and an old Buick to support.
- Johnny Kelly: Now, you don't know what that dude is into. He's Bumpy's boy. You understand that? And they're lookin' to take over my wheel in Queens.
- Gus Mascola: The only reason I won't spill your guts out right here and now, man, is that its easier to send you back to Bumpy with my message than to call Western Union. And the message is: you keep the hell outta Queens!