- Alec Stiles: I haven't seen you around lately.
- Gene Cordell: [as George Manly] I've been away.
- Alec Stiles: Is that right?
- Gene Cordell: Weekend in the country.
- Alec Stiles: Courtesy of the city?
- Gene Cordell: Something like that.
- Alec Stiles: [to Cordell] There's only one scientific way to get rid of a stoolie: let the cops bump him off.
- Shivvy: Out kinda late, ain'tcha?
- Gene Cordell: What's the idea?
- Shivvy: Where ya been, Georgie?
- Gene Cordell: I took a ferry across the river.
- Shivvy: What for?
- Gene Cordell: What's it to ya?
- Shivvy: What business you got across the river?
- Gene Cordell: I said, what's it to ya?
- Shivvy: You don't take ferryboat rides in the middle of the night for your health. What did ya pull?
- Gene Cordell: Ya got a long nose. Why don'tcha keep it to yourself!
- Shivvy: From now on y'ain't got no business that ain't Alec's.
- Gene Cordell: Ya mean I gotta share my special numbers with you mugs?
- Shivvy: [Smiles] What's the matter with the dames on *this* side of the river?
- Gene Cordell: [Playing Shivvy's solitaire hand] you got a red queen on a red king.