- Claude Dupree: Poor Karkov! He becomes so deeply attached to all the members of our 'family'. He's really a most sensitive creature.
- Claude Dupree: Look at Jack the Ripper. It's as if he knows what I'm contemplating. He doesn't want me to sell.
- Amos Burns: Dupree, that's hogwash.
- Claude Dupree: None of them want me to sell. They like it here. We've been together so long.
- Amos Burns: Look my operation in New York is very big, it's just off Broadway. Now, I'll set the figures up exactly as they're set up here - your friends won't know the difference, Believe me!
- Claude Dupree: And then there's poor Karkov.
- Amos Burns: I'm not buying any live monsters - just wax ones.
- Claude Dupree: The poor fellow knows nothing but this museum.
- Amos Burns: There are institutions for freaks like that - now let's get these papers signed.
- Harry Flexner: He always promised that I would end up with the place!
- Amos Burns: A man forgets his promises when you shove a fistful of money in his face.
- [after Harry shows up to work with a hangover]
- Julia Hawthorn: You're late and you look a disgrace!
- Harry Flexner: I feel splendid!
- Julia Hawthorn: Put him in an institution!
- Harry Flexner: No, I gave my word I would always look after him.
- Julia Hawthorn: You and Karkov must just work out your own domestic difficulties.
- Margaret Collins: That was brutal, Julia. He's sensitive - an artist!
- Julia Hawthorn: He's a leech, a bloodsucker who attached himself to Dupree for years and probably stole him blind.