- Charlie Chan: Believe if you will consent to bait trap, we may catch same.
- Mary Conover: I'll be very glad to do anything I can to help.
- Charlie Chan: Thank you. My first thought, of course, was police, but ancient proverb say, "Never bait trap with wolf to catch wolf."
- Birmingham Brown: [Referring to Charlie] Hey, Jimmy, what does he mean about Bureau of Missing Persons?
- Jimmy Chan: Well, that's where you find things that are missing.
- Birmingham Brown: I'm missing my breakfast. Let's find that.
- Jimmy Chan: Com'on, Birmingham. Shake a leg.
- Birmingham Brown: Who do you think I am? Man O' War? I ain't run this fast since I ran into a hornet's nest!
- Jimmy Chan: [Watching a frightened Birmingham repeatedly crash into the wall on the stair landing of the morgue] Where are you going, Birmingham? That's not a door up there!
- Birmingham Brown: It will be in a minute.
- Curio Shop Owner: [to Birmingham and Jimmy in the curio shop] Are you gentlemen interested in buying any curios?
- Birmingham Brown: Well, I'm curious enough to make my departure. Would you kindly tell me where the door is please?
- Charlie Chan: [to Tilford as he enters bus station on stormy night] Hot stove make all akin on night like this.