- Archie Goodwin: I won't even bother listening to you. Not after the way you've bungled things up here.
- [He reaches for the phone and while dialing adds in a teasing tone]
- Archie Goodwin: All because a pretty girl called you by your first name.
- Nero Wolfe: She isn't pretty.
- [Indignantly and with a huff]
- Nero Wolfe: Not pretty!
- Archie Goodwin: [while handing him the receiver, in a don't argue tone] She was pretty!
- Archie Goodwin: [waiting for an apprehensive Wolfe to get out of the car and step in the snow] Let's do it! C'mon while we're young!
- [sarcastically commenting on Wolfe's awkwardness walking in the snow]
- Archie Goodwin: Indeed, just like Ray Bolger!
- Archie Goodwin: [reacting to a proposed bribe by Mrs. Pitcairn] I was liking this more and more. We had our pick of goin' to jail and taking fifty grand.
- Nero Wolfe: [affronted] I fully expect you to lie! A fool could solve a case if everyone told the truth!
- Nero Wolfe: All I want is a talk with you people. May I sit down?
- Mr. Joseph Pitcairn, Donald Pitcairn, Sybil Pitcairn: No!
- Nero Wolfe: I must overrule you.
- Nero Wolfe: [after he has fallen while tangled in brush] It was as if a serpent had entangled my legs!
- Archie Goodwin: Get up. Get up. GET UP!
- Nero Wolfe: Did you see that? Did you witness that? Saul?
- Saul Panzer: Yeah, I saw it, Mr. Wolfe. He went for 'ya.
- Nero Wolfe: How can I protect both Mr. Krasicki and you people when one of you is a murderer? No, I'm sorry. I did not go home for dinner! I fought my way through a snowstorm at night!