- Josh: [to Mike] Why don'tcha go and see your girl? Let her tell ya how wonderful you are. That's what girls are for... partly.
- Mike Perrivale: [Mike is interviewing Mr Trimble who is in bed. His wife, Margaret, is by his side] Are you afraid of dying?
- Hugo Trimble: Splendid! Everybody's got to die sometime. That is a universal question. No, no I'm not afraid of dying because it brings me nearer to my reward.
- Mike Perrivale: Your reward, Sir?
- Hugo Trimble: Yes, Mr Perrivale. A teacher's reward must be in the next world. Cos' it certainly can't be in this one.
- Hugo Trimble: [He kisses Margaret's hand; she sobs silently] I'm not afraid of dying, Margaret. I'm sorry I am.
- Hugo Trimble: [to Mike] If you never remember anything else I taught you. Remember, when you see a woman crying, the only thing a man can do is to kiss her.
- Mike Perrivale: Yes, sir.
- Hugo's Doctor: [the doctor enters] I thought I told you... .
- Hugo Trimble: Get out of here!
- Hugo's Doctor: I said: "No visitors".
- Hugo Trimble: Look here, you told everybody I had 48 hours to live. Now, if you keep coming on in here and annoying me, I'm going to make a liar out of you and die right away!
- Hugo's Doctor: And you're just the man to do it.
- Hugo Trimble: Doctors! Take it from me, a doctor is nothing but a plumber in a white coat.
- Fireman: [at the fire, seeing Mike watch a stretcher with a dead body go by] Here kid, coffee.
- Mike Perrivale: [takes the coffee] What's the matter, you think I never saw a stiff before?
- Fireman: Sometimes they're like bacon - crisp.
- Mike Perrivale: Is the student of today smarter than your student of yesterday?
- Hugo Trimble: Ohh, they certainly are. Children are getting smarter all the time. It's only the grown-ups that are getting dumber.
- Eloise: [Mike arrives at the gambling house] Mike, hi.
- Mike Perrivale: Eloise...
- Mike Perrivale: Keep me company?
- Mike Perrivale: I'd love to keep you company if it weren't for the company you *keep*.
- [he walks away]