- Clicker Watson: [after washing soot off his face] Pop, is uh, is the face all right?
- Pop Whipple: Well, it's uh, clean anyway.
- Jerry Hamilton: I mean it, Pepper. I think you're... the salt of the earth.
- Pepper Whipple: That's funny. Pepper - I think you're the salt.
- Jerry Hamilton: When you're in love, you can't see the patches.
- Pepper Whipple: I know. But they're there, just the same.
- Pop Whipple: Say, them black seed sandwiches is swell, ain't they, huh?
- Mr. Hamilton: That's caviar.
- Pop Whipple: Yeah, yeah. Never had any of it in my beanery, no siree.
- Jerry Hamilton: Oh, Pepper, money isn't everything.
- Pepper Whipple: I know. But it'll do till something better comes along.
- Penelope 'Penny' Whipple: Pardon my split lip.
- Boots McGee: I'm sorry I didn't split it.
- Penelope 'Penny' Whipple: Oh, don't be so plebeian
- William Jordan: You mean to tell me that you're falling in love with a waitress?
- Jerry Hamilton: No.
- William Jordan: I thought you were kidding.
- Jerry Hamilton: I've already fallen. I'm lying flat on my back.
- Boots McGee: [to Penny Whipple] You know, if I'm ever electrocuted, I would love to have you sitting on my lap.
- Clicker Watson: Say, Bill, are there any "S"es in Cincinnati?
- Bill - Telegrapher: No, you're thinking of Chicago.
- [He snorts and chuckles]
- Penelope 'Penny' Whipple: Clicker Watson, you're going to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing BUT the truth you big palooka!