- Opening Title Card: Manhattan... the double-crossroads of the world _ _
- Vamp: Listen, sailor, would you like to go rowing or would you like to go *rowing*?
- Charley Lee: You get some good horse today?
- Bill McCaffery: Sure. I got a three-horse parlay that can't lose.
- Charley Lee: No, no. No more parly. Parly keep Charley broke. You give one horse here.
- Bill McCaffery: All right. Play Honey Bunch in the first race.
- Charley Lee: Honey Brunch? You tink she win?
- Bill McCaffery: She can't lose!
- Bill McCaffery: There you go with that plumbing again, Pop. That's all I hear out of you is plumbing.
- Molly Gilbert: Oh, gee, Bill, you had me so nervous. I thought I always told you to wait upstairs. Didn't I?
- Bill McCaffery: Yeah and now I know why you told me. What do those guys get off that mauling you?
- Molly Gilbert: Oh, he wasn't mauling me. It's all in the business.
- Bill McCaffery: That's why I'm not so strong for my girl in that kind of a business.
- Molly Gilbert: We had that out once before, didn't we?
- Bill McCaffery: All I can say is if they do that with their hands over the table, what do they do with their knees under the table?
- Molly Gilbert: You would think of something like that.
- Molly Gilbert: Why, Bill, everyone's dressed in here.
- Bill McCaffery: Why, to hear you talk, you'd think we were naked.
- Molly Gilbert: But, Bill, it's just like throwing money away! Three dollars and fifty cents for dinner?
- Pop McCaffery: What's this under the wire business got to do with you getting to that job on time?
- Bill McCaffery: Ah, keep cool, Pop. I'm way out front, huggin' the rail and breezin'.
- Pop McCaffery: Huggin' the rail and breezin' and under the wire? What kind of language is that anyway?
- Bill McCaffery: Mr. Bigsby, I don't like to bother you about that plumbing bill for a $100, but, it's way overdue.
- R.M. Bigsby, Undertaker: I'm sorry Mr. MaCaffery, but the undertaking business is in a deplorable state and it makes me very unhappy.
- Bill McCaffery: Well, maybe your prices are too stiff.
- R.M. Bigsby, Undertaker: Quite the contrary. No one will ever live the day, when they could be buried as cheaply as now.
- R.M. Bigsby, Undertaker: Thanks for calling. Don't be a stranger. I'm glad to see you lookin' so well.
- Bill McCaffery: I never felt better in my life.
- R.M. Bigsby, Undertaker: Oh, dear.
- Scotty: $50 on a 30 to 1 shot. Why, that's fifteen hundred smackers. Boy, are you hot!
- Bill McCaffery: Hot? I'm hotter than a firecracker!
- Molly Gilbert: Bill, why can't you see things my way?
- Bill McCaffery: Okay. From now on, I'll do anything you say. Come on, Molly.
- [kiss]
- Bill McCaffery: Oh, Scotty. Will you finish this dance out for me?
- Scotty: Sure.
- Heavy Wedding Guest: I hope I'm not too heavy.
- Scotty: No. You know, you'd make a great anchor for a ship.
- Scotty: Oh, Bill, I forgot to tell you. I asked that little redhead, you know, across the hall, to come in and have a drink. You don't mind do you?
- Bill McCaffery: I don't want to listen to some chatter from some dizzy dames.
- Scotty: Well, I've already asked her in. What'll I tell her?
- Bill McCaffery: Tell her you're not dressed.
- Scotty: That won't keep her out.
- Scotty: What do you say we drink a Big Drink to the Big Town?
- Ruby 'Babe' Norton: Well, let's start with the Village and work up.
- Scotty: This is good stuff. It's 20 years old.
- Goldie Williams: Don't let it live another minute.
- Ruby 'Babe' Norton: Whisky always makes me dizzy.
- Scotty: Yeah? Why blame it on the whisky?
- Scotty: What Chinese restaurant will we go to?
- Ruby 'Babe' Norton: It doesn't make a bit of difference; just as long as its kosher.
- Scotty: Well, I'm with you.
- Goldie Williams: I watched you around the track and I thought you were a fellow with a lot of color, a fast worker, a live wire.
- Bill McCaffery: What's wrong? Sweetheart turn the fan on you?
- Goldie Williams: What made you say that?
- Bill McCaffery: I know just how you feel. I'm in the same boat.
- Goldie Williams: You're carrying a torch too? Bigger than the one on the statue of liberty.
- Bill McCaffery: [drunkenly] Well, the night didn't turn out to be such a bust after all, did it?
- Goldie Williams: Much better than I expected!
- Bill McCaffery: I think we better go home now. Come on, I'll take you up to the door.
- Goldie Williams: Just to the door?
- Bill McCaffery: [Bill and Goldie laugh] There you go again. Fresh again.
- [laughs]
- Bill McCaffery: Playing the horses is no different than, well, gambling on the stock market. It's a racket and I've got the combination.
- Pop McCaffery: Take my advice and quit while the quittin's good. Gambling's a bad business.
- Bill McCaffery: Pop, you talk just like Molly.
- Pop McCaffery: Listen, I had an uncle once who was a great card player. He owned three farms and he lost two of 'em trying to fill an inside straight; finally, he filled the inside straight and he lost the third one.
- Bill McCaffery: Well, I'll see you later Pop.
- Pop McCaffery: Where're you going?
- Bill McCaffery: I have to get a new pair of ear muffs.
- Bill McCaffery: The next time I come into your joint, I'm gonna wear my bathing suit.
- Edward Shelton: [laughs] That's jake with me.
- Edward Shelton: A little drink?
- Bill McCaffery: Yeah. I'll take a Bromo-Seltzer. Well, what will you have, Scotty?
- Scotty: I'll have a double Bromo-Seltzer.