Quotes

Bowery Bombshell

Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: Louie, I told ya before your eyes are gettin' bad. It's about time you went to see an optimist.

Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: I'm sorry we was so enforced in our work we didn't observe your intrusion.

Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: This guy is cuckoo. He drinks chemicals before dinner and has explosions for dessert!

Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: Would you do me a favor, Whitey? Unpeel your optics and peruse the accompanying print.

Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: If you gentlemen are quite through, I'd like to pass on a little choice information to ya. I happen to be a young man that knows more than somewhat about his institutional rights, which knowledge includes the fact that you can't hold me here without a specific cause or a very indefinite charge.
Detective O'Malley: Well...
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: All right, you did your talk and now it's my toin. You're not holding me here as an accomplishment to the crime because I never accomplished anything in my life, so what's the charge? Fragrancy? No, it couldn't be, cuz I ain't fragrant. And foithermore, as a taxpayer, I demand that I be deliberated this very instant to consume my place among the respected citizenry of this town. And another thing, if my name is slenderized or dilapidated in any way, I'm gonna sue. I'll take this case right to Extreme Court of the United States!
[Slip snaps his fingers in the detective's face]

Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: 'Samatter, ya manners gettin' a little municipal?

Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: Course you realize these interruptions are regenerating our whole business schedule.

Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: [facing a fatal beating] Well, uh, lemme tell ya somethin', shorty. There's been a misdemeanor here. You're a pretty smart guy. I can tell that by lookin' in your eyes. You got a future in this racket, but you wanna know somethihn' else? You can get ten years in this town for assault without a battery.

Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: Don't make no discriminations you can't prove, George!

Cathy Smith: The professor is a very nice man. He lives up there and he also has a laboratory where he experiments on his ideas of invention. Say, keep your fingers crossed and hope the professor hears us. Besides being absent-minded, he's also a little eccentric.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones: So he's eccentric. So he don't eat meat. So what?

Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: [xtarts to explain how anyone could plant stolen money on Sach] Take a guy like dis that's lackin' intelligence in such large proportions, ya just tap him on the shoulder to extract his attention.

Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: [trying to appear innocent by dictating a letter] Indifference to your letter of the twenty-fifth insting, which is the date that March happened have, we regret to deform you that your material will be somewhat delayed due to the present day difficulties in railroad transformation. Uh, would ya... translate that back to me, Miss Smith?
Cathy Smith: Yes, sir. "In reply to your letter of March twenty-fifth, I regret very much that your order has been delayed due to shipping problems."

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