- Jason McCord: You left something behind?
- Princess Salome: Yeah?
- Jason McCord: Your accent.
- Princess Salome: Oh yeah.
- Phineas T. Barnum: Big fella, do you think that Napeleon and Abe Lincoln would sue me?
- Jason McCord: Not very well, they're dead.
- Phineas T. Barnum: So are you, McCord, now that you've made the history pages. And as far as the law is concerned, you are as dead and as extinct as a dodo bird.
- Phineas T. Barnum: Big fella, I don't believe you ran at Bitter Creek, and if you did... it wasn't from anything human.
- Jason McCord: I'd like my money.
- Charlie Stark: What money?
- Jason McCord: Money! That astonishing, incredible, unbelievable $50 you owe me.
- Charlie Stark: I don't keep that kind of money on me.
- Jason McCord: Let's go where you do.
- Phineas T. Barnum: Carnival? You're talking to Phineas T Barnum. This is the biggest show on earth.
- Jason McCord: Fine. You oughta be good for $50.
- Hotel Clerk: Princess, western men, they don't understand art.
- Princess Salome: Western men, they're are PIGS!
- Hotel Clerk: Pigs who pay a dollar to look, mm?
- Phineas T. Barnum: I'll bill you as the Pride of the Plain, the Fiery Cyclone, the Towering Terror, or anything you like. I'll have your pictures on the billboards ten feet high.
- Phineas T. Barnum: All right, all right. You drag your two pals out of here and get them glued together.
- Hotel Clerk: Well, you're a very shrewd businessman, BT, and I try to copy you. They tell me you follow one hard and fast rule, never sell a good thing outright, you know, well, lock, stock and barrel.
- Phineas T. Barnum: You want a percentage. Is that it? NO DEAL!
- Phineas T. Barnum: What happened to your accent?
- Princess Salome: Relax, blue eyes, they don't no come here to hear my accent.
- Phineas T. Barnum: Barnum always gets the first billing, and there'll never be a Barnum and Bailey Circus, big fella.