- Archie Goodwin: As I entered the front room, there were words on the tip of my tongue - apparently that's as far as they got.
- Rita Ramsey Sorrell: You mentoned my husband. Are you brave?
- Archie Goodwin: Well, I would be if you were watching.
- Archie Goodwin: If you're a real top flight detective like me, you'd rather go after an alibi than the truth.
- Saul Panzer: [During poker game] Why do you always do that?
- Orrie Cather: What?
- Saul Panzer: You lose, you keep losing, and yet you bet.
- Lon Cohen: You know why?
- [faking Irish accent]
- Lon Cohen: As me old mother used to say, "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her
- [glares at Orrie]
- Lon Cohen: think."