- 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.
- 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?
- Nifty Bailey: Heh, shows you what a little salve can do.
- Peaches O'Day: It don't mean a thing, if you don't pull a string.
- Fritz Krausmeyer: Forgive me, please, I did not wish to be late, but when I was running around the corner I slipped in the slush, and my feet went up, and the rest of me went down.
- Peaches O'Day: Well, that's life for ya, ups and downs.
- Nifty Bailey: Just lay low 'til I give you the high sign. Do you follow me?
- Peaches O'Day: I just passed ya!