- Dodie DuBois: Do you like this outfit?
- Alexander Mundy: Do I like that outfit? You look like a hundred pounds of gorgeous stuffed into a 90-pound sack.
- Runyon: Do you know how to make a cement overcoat?
- Alexander Mundy: Oh, I thought those went out of style?
- Runyon: Oh, they have. But I still remember how to make 'em. You know how deep the Thames is?
- Alexander Mundy: Deep enough, right?
- Runyon: Deep enough. Sluggish, and muddy. You could lose a lot of things in the Thames. You get the drift? Ho-ho - I made a funny, didn't I?
- Alexander Mundy: Very funny.
- Runyon: If anything happens to those two kids, so help me I'll tear off his arm and I'll beat him to death with it.
- Alexander Mundy: Koufax couldn't have thrown a better one, Herbie.
- Herbie DuBois: Neither could Joe Louis.