- Diana Kenyon: May I offer you a drink?
- Gay Lawrence: Never before sundown.
- Diana Kenyon: And after that?
- Gay Lawrence: After that the deluge.
- Diana Kenyon: What about tonight?
- Diana Kenyon: You know, I can't understand how such brilliance could get you in a spot like this.
- Gay Lawrence: I'm always a sucker for a beautiful woman.
- Diana Kenyon: [Sarcastically] You and mankind.
- Inspector Mike O'Hara: [to Lawrence] Oh, the great Falcon! I haven't seen you in half a dozen murders!
- Inspector Mike O'Hara: Start talkin' and talk fast, or I'll tell you where you're goin'.
- Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke: Go ahead. Put the cuffs on me. A stretch in the clink will be like livin' at the Ritz after what I've been through.
- Inspector Mike O'Hara: I accept your resignation.
- Ann Riordan: [after Marriot has fired a shot at him and been murdered himself] Are you all right?
- Gay Lawrence: Nobody ever got killed by a blank cartridge.
- Gay Lawrence: [Not wanting to work for a client who leaves him in the dark] I think you better get someone else.
- Lindsey W. Marriot: I don't like your manner.
- Gay Lawrence: I'm not particularly intrigued by yours either.
- Detective Bates: [Driving while looking for the Falcon's car] I don't see any cars, Chief.
- Inspector Mike O'Hara: Did it creep into that skull of yours that maybe he deliberately gave you a bum steer?
- Detective Bates: No, sir, did it in yours?
- Inspector Mike O'Hara: No! Shut up!
- Inspector Mike O'Hara: Go ahead, Follow 'em!
- Detective Bates: Why, Chief?
- Inspector Mike O'Hara: [Condescendingly] Because I got a gold badge and you only got a silver badge, and I want you to follow him. You don't mind, do yuh?
- Detective Bates: No, of course not, Chief.
- Inspector Mike O'Hara: This case ain't as simple as it seems. If it ain't handled right, it's liable to land me and you and your boss right in the middle of the East River in a concrete nightgown!
- Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke: So?
- Inspector Mike O'Hara: [Trying to pin a badge on Goldy] So all I want you to do is accept this little token of my esteem and consider yourself my special confidential deputy.
- Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke: [Angrily slapping the badge away] It's still a stool pigeon where I come from!
- Inspector Mike O'Hara: OK, take a choice: sing or Sing-Sing.
- Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke: Listen, O'Hara, you can't scare me, see. I know the law. You can't pin nothin' on me until you prove Corpus Delicious!
- Inspector Mike O'Hara: I'll give you 24 hours to make up your mind.
- Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke: [Obviously frightened of the brutish Moose, who has commandeered his car] I guess I better drop you now. I got a date.
- Moose Malloy: [Ominously] You wouldn't want it with an angel, would you?
- Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke: [Meekly nervous] No, sir.
- Moose Malloy: Then keep on drivin'.
- Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke: [Meekly resigned] Yes, sir.
- Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke: I tell ya the guy ain't human! He's a mountain!
- Gay Lawrence: So, like Muhammad, we go to the mountain.
- Inspector Mike O'Hara: We happen to know your boss is gettin' himself mixed up in this murder. And what we want to know is where he goes and what he does.
- Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke: You're on wrong floor, mister. The rats is in the basement.
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