- Biff: Hey, Frankie, she reminds me of my mother.
- Martha Grant: No self-respecting mother would claim YOU, ya big lug.
- Biff: Hey, she even talks like my mother.
- Claymore Gregg: [shaking hands with Duke's gun] My, you have a cold finger.
- Duke: Mother was an iceberg.
- Duke: [learning of a betrayal] My own kid sister, the only one I trusted. How could she do it after all the good times we had together? Stealing pennies when we were kids. Knocking off banks when we grew up. Where did I go wrong?
- Carolyn Muir: He'll be back in a minute. Now, you've got to do something.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: No, madam, you do not need me. By your own words, you are perfectly self-sufficient.
- Carolyn Muir: That's not the point. They are...
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Ah, but it is.
- [using her own words against her]
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: You take care of people, I take care of ghosts.
- [Scruffy attacks]
- Duke: Get him off me, lady, or you'll have somethin' smaller than a moose head to put over the mantle.
- Duke: My mother blows a whistle on me, a woman judge gives me five years, my girlfriend leaves me and moves in with my wife who divorces me. No dame's gonna cross Duke again. Get me?