- Cop: Hold it. You can't go in there, lady. There's been a hold-up and a murder.
- Torchy Blane: You're wrong, boys. Hold-ups and murder are my meat. Here's the open sesame that swings wide all portals - my press pass. Torchy Blane of the Star.
- Detective Lieutenant Steve 'Stevie' McBride: [to Torchy] Well, newshound, you got your ears pinned back.
- Torchy Blane: Gahagan, lead me to Steve.
- Detective Gahagan: Oh, Torchy, this is moider!
- Torchy Blane: No, just a little quiet mayhem.
- Torchy Blane: Why you're so dumb that all our kids, if we had any, would probably turn out to be morons!