- Phelps: I don't need to tell you, Mr. Austin, that anybody who sees the light, will never go home in the dark.
- Joe Austin: Don't worry. we've always kept the wolf from the door.
- Sarah Austin: At the rate we're going, we soon won't have a door!
- Joe Austin: There's a pickle if you want one.
- Sarah Austin: Why should I want a pickle?
- Joe Austin: Hard boiled egg.
- Sarah Austin: me?
- Joe Austin: no. Will you have one?
- [offers an egg]
- Joe Austin: Say, what's this all about?
- Sarah Austin: It's about the Owen's boy. I won't have him around here.
- Joe Austin: Well, whatsa' matter with him?
- Sarah Austin: Never mind! I won't have him hangin' around.
- Joe Austin: Now, look here, Sarah. He's a nice little fella'. Alice likes him, and I like him.
- Sarah Austin: Naturally, you like him - he's a chronic loafer, like yourself.
- Joe Austin: He's not a loafer, he's an inventor.
- Sarah Austin: Hmm, so are you. You can invent more excuses for not finding work than any man I know.
- Bill Hepburn: [in the pool hall, just after seeing Larry Owens] How does a sap like him rate that Austin dame?
- Associate of Bill Hepburn's: Well, whaddyou care?
- Bill Hepburn: She wouldn't be a bad kid... if she was educated.
- Associate of Bill Hepburn's: Well if you hadn't tried to educate that dame in Boston, we wouldn't be hidin' out from the cops in *this* dump.
- Bill Hepburn: What's the matter with this dump? We're doin' alright, aren't we?
- Associate of Bill Hepburn's: Yeah? Well *don't* start educatin' any more women. Whaddya think we got screws for!