- Daniel Decatur Emmett: He's quite a cuss all right. He's a fake, he's got no morals, no integrity, no loyalty, but he's very colorful.
- Millie Cook: I once heard a doctor say the same thing about scarlet fever.
- Millie Cook: What an eventful evening. The show was a triumph, I've been engaged to two men, and the theater burns down. I wonder what'll happen next.
- Mr. Cook: But I've always felt you had character. And I'd hate to find out that you didn't have.
- Millie Cook: Why?
- Mr. Cook: Oh, I don't know. Character's supposed to be a good thing.
- Mr. Bones: While you've dilly-dallied with this boarding house Cleopatra, I've been out selling the manager of the Maxwell a new act.
- Millie Cook: I just couldn't cope with Mr. Bones tonight. He has the instincts of a boa constrictor.
- Daniel Decatur Emmett: I knew he was a snake, but I didn't know what kind.