Edmund Lowe credited as playing...
Police Captain Jim McCarey
- John Quade: This thing reflects on my honesty
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: Honesty?
- John Quade: Yes, have you ever heard it questioned?
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: I've never even heard it mentioned.
- Peaches O'Day: They got me all wrong. I might crack a law now and then, but I ain't never broke one.
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: The only law you ain't never broke is the law of gravity.
- Peaches O'Day: That's an idea. I'll go to work on that right away.
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: You got good stuff in you, if you'll only give it a chance to work. You've got brains, you're clever, plenty of talent, and, well... You ain't hard to look at.
- Peaches O'Day: Yeah.
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: Well, with those qualities, if you went straight, there's no reason in the world why you shouldn't go to the top.
- Peaches O'Day: The top of what?
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: I happen to be chump enough to like you.
- Peaches O'Day: I ain't expectin' no flatfoot to like me any more than I'm likin' a flatfoot.
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: So you're back in town.
- Peaches O'Day: I ain't got no twin.
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: Too bad you ain't. Maybe you'd get her to sit in jail for you.
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: I wouldn't borrow trouble if I were you.
- Peaches O'Day: Borrow it? Why, I got it to give away.
- Peaches O'Day: Quade? Why that cheap, graftin' heel. He's sore 'cause I wouldn't hand him a tumble.
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: You mean he made love to you?
- Peaches O'Day: Well, he went through all the emotions.
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: Brush that chip off your shoulder and listen a minute.
- Peaches O'Day: Take that badge off your vest and maybe I will.
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: Peaches, whatever you think of me, ain't nearly as important as what you should think of yourself. You got good stuff in you if you only give it a chance to work. You've got brains, you're clever, plenty of talent, and - well, you ain't hard to look at.
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: Why don't you admit the truth: why you sent for me tonight?
- Peaches O'Day: Why you think I sent for you, huh?
- Peaches O'Day: Sit down - while I take off something.
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: Huh?
- Peaches O'Day: Just the bracelet.
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: Peaches has done her part. I hope you do yours. I want to do mine. So, free beer for everybody!
- Police Captain Jim McCarey: I've been a cop for 15 years. You get to know about civic government pounding the pavements on the Bowery, Fifth Avenue, and Delancey Street. All you have to know is that everybody's got to get a job, a place to sleep, something to eat, and...
- Peaches O'Day: A diamond tiara.
- Larmadou Graves: Here, here. He said just what the Reform Committee's been saying for months.
- Peaches O'Day: Well, then make him your candidate.
- Van Reighle Van Pelter Van Doon: Well, sure, but we'll have to ask the other gentlemen.
- Peaches O'Day: Don't ask 'em. Tell 'em!