- Perry Mason: Uh, remind me to give me a raise in the morning.
- Della Street: I'll remember to forget that.
- Paul Drake: [Trying the door] It's locked!
- [He starts looking through his skeleton keys]
- Paul Drake: Which will it be? Conscience or curiosity?
- Perry Mason: Curiosity.
- Jim Magooney: [On the phone to Perry and Della] Hello, this is Magooney. I still can't remember what I wanted to remember to tell you.
- District Attorney Hamilton Burger: [after Perry arrives at the pier] Tell me, what are you doing down here?
- Perry Mason: Why, uh, my presence here is purely coincidental.
- District Attorney Hamilton Burger: Whenever you show up immediately after a murder has been committed, there's only one answer.