- Sgt. Orville Gahagan: [to a gaggle of reporters trying to get into the crime scene, including Torchy] Orders is no reporters, male or female - especially female!
- Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride: Why don't you stop trying to be a detective?
- Torchy Blane: [Sassily] Why don't you start?
- Hughie Sprague: Pardon me, but, do you know my wife?
- Reporter With Sprague: No, I don't think I do.
- Hughie Sprague: [Sarcastically] Allow me to congratulate you.
- Hughie Sprague: Are you a married man?
- Sgt. Orville Gahagan: And how! Is it noticeable?
- Hughie Sprague: Unmistakably so.
- Hughie Sprague: Well, Gahagan, it's been a very successful experience! Athens, Bagdad, Alexandria, and I shall never forget you in the Acropolis by moonlight.
- Sgt. Orville Gahagan: [Wistfully] It was positively incandescent!
- Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride: Mmm. I smell steak. There must be a restaurant around here.
- Torchy Blane: You can smell a porter house further than any woman I know.
- Maxie Monkhouse: Treachery! That's what it is - treachery! I took her on when she didn't know the difference between a murder and a blessed event. I made her the smartest reporter in this cockeyed town. And how does she repay me? By running out to marry some bourgeois boob!
- Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride: Oh, Torchy, you're a nice kid and I'm sorry you didn't have a little better luck. But, running down criminals is a man's job. It takes a masculine mind with years of experience to crack these cases. Well, you just go back to your office and write a nice little story about what the women's clubs are doing to support world peace and I'll take you out for dinner.
- Torchy Blane: Mr. Vance, you've always told me play up the feminine angle in my stories. A woman doing anything is good copy.
- Desk Sergeant: What'll these women do next?
- Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride: What women?
- Desk Sergeant: You know who I mean. What's her name? Your girlfriend, Miss Who's it, here? Torchy Blane.
- Policeman Announcing Miss Sayre: Oh, Lieutenant, there's a good lookin' young dame outside waiting to see you.
- Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride: Take care of yourself, you little idiot.
- Torchy Blane: You too, you big roughneck.
- [kiss]
- Policeman Announcing Miss Sayre: Croy's guilty and I hope he gets the chair.
- Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride: You must be crazy about him.
- Policeman Announcing Miss Sayre: Well, nobody's going to cross me up and get away with it.
- Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride: It would have been a cinch to smuggle these through the Customs. They wouldn't have *bothered* anyone on the world flight.
- Lucien 'Sonny' Croy: You can't arrest me, McBride. You haven't any authority.
- Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride: You'll change your mind after a couple of days in Frankfurt hoosegow.
- Sgt. Orville Gahagan: What is so rare as a day in June, Nature in tune, Nature in tune, Roses in bloom, And overhead, An awesome moon.
- Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride: All right, get going Longfellow.
- Sgt. Orville Gahagan: Oh, what a day, what a day!
- Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride: We might as well go out and eat.
- Torchy Blane: Oh, I'm sorry. I haven't time.
- Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride: You mean to say you're refusing a chance to eat?
- Torchy Blane: Yes. I'll see you on the Zeppelin.