- George Lang: We must never forget that we are human, and as humans we dream, and when we dream we dream of money.
- Jimmy Dell: I think you'll find that if what you've done for them is as valuable as you say it is, if they are indebted to you morally but not legally, my experience is they will give you nothing, and they will begin to act cruelly toward you.
- Joe Ross: Why?
- Jimmy Dell: To suppress their guilt.
- Jimmy Dell: Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
- George Lang: How are things in the outer office?
- Susan Ricci: My troika was pursued by wolves.
- George Lang: It's a good thing this cookie arrived unscathed.
- Jimmy Dell: You now have a Swiss bank account if anybody asks. Crédit Nationale Du Génève code name 'PADDY'. Lavish awkward gesture. All of fifteen Swiss Francs in it, but if you ever want to impress anybody, they can find out you have a Swiss account. But, Swiss law prohibits the bank from revealing the balance. Thus are all men made equal.
- Joe Ross: Stun gun? What if you missed?
- United States Marshal: Well then, it would be back to the range for me...
- [last lines]
- Susan Ricci: [being arrested] Can you help me? You're the Boy Scout. Can I be your good deed for today? Can't you help me, Joe?
- Joe Ross: I'm afraid you're gonna have to spend some time in your room.
- Joe Ross: You could call me Joe.
- Susan Ricci: Yeah, long as I didn't take that as inducement to, you know, further intimacy.
- Jimmy Dell: Do the American thing.
- Joe Ross: What's that?
- Jimmy Dell: Marry a rich widow.
- Joe Ross: We used to say, a nymphomaniac who owns a liquor store.
- FBI Team Leader: It's an interesting setup, Mr. Ross. It is the oldest confidence game on the books. The Spanish Prisoner. Fellow says him and his sister, wealthy refugees, left a fortune in the home country. He got out, girl and the money stuck in Spain. Here is her most beautiful portrait. And he needs money to get her and the fortune out. Man who supplies the money gets the fortune and the girl. Oldest con in the world.
- [first lines]
- Airport Security: What is the purpose of your trip, please?
- Joe Ross: Business.
- Airport Security: Thank you and welcome to St. Estéphe.