- Nick Coster: [to Flo] When I get a break, I'll hang a jewelry store around that lovely neck of yours.
- Hoffman the Great: [Showing up for work drunk, before his lion-taming performance] A real man can drink and *still* do his work!
- Hoffman the Great: Yes, and now me, the Great Hoffman, all my life a headliner, all over the world. Now I'm kicked out without even my cats. And for what? To make room for a young monkey, whom I have taught everything.