Richard Denning: Michael Shayne

Quotes 

• Adam Quick : Thanks a lot, Mike, for paying my fine, but I am not budging.

  Tim Rourke : Adam, be reasonable for a change.

  Adam Quick : I am going into that courtroom, I'm going to have a jury trial and I'm going to let the whole world know what that chiselin' Graves did to me. If they don't give me a good conduct medal for workin' him over, I'm takin' it to the Supreme Court.

  Michael Shayne : All right, we don't blame you for being sore.

  Tim Rourke : But staying in jail is no good for you. It's no good for Dusa.

  Adam Quick : It's the principal of the thing! Has an artist got any rights or hasn't he? Thoreau went to jail for what he believe in. Mahatma Gandhi went to jail for what he believed in, didn't he? Okay, what's good enough for them is good enough for me.

• Michael Shayne : [to Lt. Gentry]  You know, I learned something from Adam. What you see in a picture depends on the guy who's looking at it.

• Michael Shayne : What about Joe Demerest? How are his scruples?

  Tim Rourke : Adjustable.

  Michael Shayne : Tell him I want to see him right away.

• Lucy Carr : And they really did get married?

  Michael Shayne : So now Claire's not a cultural adviser, she's a wife. She doesn't advise, she commands.

• [last lines] 

  [Adam has painted Mike's portrait using abstract art techniques] 

  Dusa : It's the way Adam sees you.

  Michael Shayne : That's what frightens me.