- Scorpio: Gee, she's swell. Is she hard to get acquainted with, Johnny?
- Johnny Franks: Nah, But, blondes come high.
- Scorpio: [Comparing his slaughterhouse job to a life of crime] I'd rather have a belly full of guts, anytime, than a belly full of lead.
- Newton: [after being shot in the back by Scorpio] Well, that serves me right. That's the first time I ever turned my back on you, you rat!
- Scorpio: I got a swell job. You know how much money I made last week - not counting overtime? Thirty-five bucks.
- Peaches: Oh, Johnny, going out tonight?
- Johnny Franks: Sure. What of it?
- Peaches: Nothin'. But, don't stay out too long, honey, will ya?
- Johnny Franks: Go on! Go on, cut the apple sauce!
- Johnny Franks: Got a rod?
- Scorpio: Sure.
- Johnny Franks: Got it on ya?
- Scorpio: Sure!
- Johnny Franks: If you're interested, come on along.
- Newton: What if they have raided a still? What's one still? They think they can stop me? As for the rest of you, keep your mouths shut. Run back to the holes you came from. You spineless rats! Run! Run away!
- Scorpio: Hey, wait a minute. Where do you get off rating a hog's share? I bring in more dough to this joint than all of you yids put together.
- Scorpio: Hello, Sweetbread.
- Peaches: You keep your big hands off me! Or, I'll have Johnny kick you outta the gang.
- Scorpio: Who, me?
- Peaches: Yeah, you!
- Scorpio: Oh, listen, you. You'll be crawling on your hands and knees to me some day.
- Peaches: Yeah?
- Scorpio: Yes, me!
- Peaches: Not while I'm sober! You big side of beef!
- Waiter: Good evening, gents. What'll you have?
- Johnny Franks: Beer!
- Scorpio: Make mine milk - and not skim.
- Scorpio: [after being set up and ambushed by a rival gang] Well, they winged me.
- Johnny Franks: I'm glad they didn't get you kid.
- Scorpio: Thanks, Johnny.
- Johnny Franks: Have a little drink and I'll get you a sawbones.
- Carl: Come on, Hank, let's chow!
- Hank: Eh, much obliged, Carl, but, I got to go down to see my grandmother.
- Carl: Oh, does she live in Centro?
- Hank: Yeah.
- Carl: Yeah, well, I'll go with you. Maybe she's got a girl friend.
- Hank: I'm not kidding.
- Carl: No, well, neither am I. So does my Aunt Emma. Well, so long, Hank. Give my - love - to Grandma.
- Donlin: Who sent for me?
- Mizoski - the Gouger: Me! The Honorable Nick Mizoski - your new mayor. I just wanted to have a word with the - eh - ex-Chief of Police.
- Donlin: What do you mean?
- Mizoski - the Gouger: You know what I mean. I'm in and you're out!
- [laughter]
- Donlin: Now, you shut up, all of you! I've got something to say and you're going to listen to me. The night my kid was - bumped off, I swore I'd drive every one of you outta this country and I'm going to do it! And you newspaper guys, making heroes out of hoodlums. You're going to stop that now. I mean it! Now, don't forget, you birds, I've just begun to fight!
- [Storms out]
- Scorpio: Now, ain't that too bad.
- Scorpio: What's the big idea? Thirty grand - under last week?
- Phillip: Yes sir. They raided 12 stills and closed 75 speakeasies.
- Scorpio: Last week?
- Phillip: Yes sir.
- Scorpio: Get Newton on that telephone.
- Phillip: He's on his way up here now sir.
- Scorpio: Those guys! Didn't I donate 10 grand, last week, to the Policeman's Charity Ball? Well, it's just like feeding a hungry dog and having it turn around and bite you on the leg!
- Phillip: Quite true, sir.
- Scorpio: If I can't conduct an honest business, with those guys chiseling and muscling in every five minutes of the day, I'm going out and start a milk route. I got expenses of my own to keep up. I'll go out on a desert island where there ain't no coppers and then I won't be bothered with 'em.
- Manicurist: Good morning, Mr. Scorpio. Did you rest well, Mr. Scorpio? Gee, it sure is a fine day.
- Scorpio: I wish everybody was as dumb as Metz.
- Manicurist: Ain't I dumb enough for ya?
- Scorpio: Shut up.
- Manicurist: Okay!
- District Attorney: This tribunal, known only as the Secret Six, represent the greatest force of law and order in the United States. These men have gathered together - to fight and destroy the vicious power of the gangster.
- Newton: What excuse did you give him for pretending to be a deaf-mute?
- Metz: Well, I said I was married to a dame that was on the hunt for me and if she found me, she'd send me up for a rap.
- Newton: And what did Mr. Scorpio say to that?
- Metz: He said he was sorry for all married men. Wouldn't spill the beans.
- Scorpio: Don't let that dame get away from you and get right back here. We might have to use the rods to get out of this joint. Scram.
- Mr. Jones - Juror: So, you're stickin' up for these bootleggers, eh?
- M, Juror: The public is as guilty as the bootleggers. Who buys the liquor? Do you?
- Mr. Jones - Juror: No! I make my own.