Quotes

Chico: Right now I'd do anything for money. I'd kill somebody for money. I'd kill *you* for money.

[Harpo looks dejected]

Chico: Ha ha ha. Ah, no. You're my friend. I'd kill you for nothing.

[Harpo smiles]

Hammer: I'm gonna put extra blankets, free, in all your rooms, and there'll be no cover charge.

Hammer: Wages? Do you want to be wage slaves? Answer me that!

Bellhops: No.

Hammer: No, of course not. But what makes wage slaves? Wages!

Jamison: Any luck with the 4:30?

Hammer: Yeah. It didn't hit me.

Mrs. Potter: Get out of this room, or I'll scream for the servants.

Hammer: Let the servants know! Let the whole world know! About us!

Mrs. Potter: You must leave my room. We must have regard for certain conventions.

Hammer: One guy isn't enough, she's gotta have a convention.

Hammer: Why, it's the most exclusive residential district in Florida. *Nobody* lives there.

Hammer: Believe me, you gotta get up early if you want to get out of bed.

Hammer: All along the river, those are all levees.

Chico: That's the Jewish neighborhood?

Hammer: Well, we'll pass over that.

Hammer: Jail is no place for a young fellow. There's no advancement.

Hammer: Get away from that tree before it dies.

Hammer: Well, my mother and father talked it over and they finally moved to New York, a little house in the Bronx. And it was in that little house that Abraham Lincoln was born, much to my father's surprise. And that, boys and girls, was the beginning of the Lincoln Highway.

Bob Adams: Oh Mr. Hammer, there's a man outside wants to see you with a black mustache.

Hammer: Tell him I've got one.