- Lee Ying: Race prejudice has always existed, my son. Fighting it will not help. The only weapon one can use, to defeat it, is tolerance.
- Sam Lee: They are liars and hypocrites. Their religion teaches love and brotherhood and equality. But, they worship money and prejudice!
- Lee Ying: The virtuous man must learn to find all that he wants - within himself. Its the inferior man who must find in others what he lacks.
- Lee Ying: Remember, Sam Lee, that you are a son of the gods, for they sent you in answer to prayer. You will not let me give you money; but, I have tried to fill your mind with gems of wisdom. You are going far, my son, where I will no longer be able to guide you. But, you must go. And I shall await your homecoming.
- Eileen: I brought you something to take along. It'll do you no harm and it may do you some good. It's a Catholic scapular, Sam. I don't know if my religion is any better than yours and Lee Ying's; but, won't do any harm to mix them.
- Sam Lee: A Catholic scapular on a Chinese breast. No harm should come to me, Eileen.
- Kicker: Why don't you come along with us? We've got a extra dame on our hands and the girls are just admiring your new petting wagon.
- Kicker: Children, make way. Gather around one and all. Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! This is to give you notice, that Mr. Sam Lee, the gentleman that owns this chariot, will join us this afternoon in our festivities. So, you dames will not have to ride in my Lizzie.
- Alice Hart: I just can't keep up with the new songs. I haven't a radio. There isn't room for one in my little apartment. It's about the size of a canoe.
- Kicker: We don't think of Sam as a Chinaman. Why, he's a high class gentleman. You've got to go through with this.
- Mabel: And have him ask us to dance? I'd die!
- Connie: So would I! Are you going to take us home?
- Kicker: Say, who do you think you are? Besides, Sam doesn't look Chinese and nobody here knows him.
- Mabel: Oh, is that so! Well, Connie knows one of the girls who saw us come in with that *yellow* friend of yours. She told us! Sam Lee - huh! - a chink! Oh, I wouldn't let him touch me.
- Spud: Oh, is that so? Well, Alice let him touch her, all right. Everything would have been jake if that yap friend of yours hadn't started a broadcast.
- Kicker: Why, Sam's father is the richest Oriental in New York. Why, he has more stores than Carter has pills. Why, he's the Chinese Marshall Fields. Sam has millions! More millions than you half-wits can think of.
- Sam Lee: He's from Oklahoma. When he first saw her, he fell madly in love with her. He was trying to arrange an introduction when, one day, she surprised him by smiling at him.
- Allana: Spanish hussy.
- Sam Lee: But, she's not Spanish. That's just it. She's an American Indian from his own state. And she knew him as a child. When Bathurst first told me about it, I thought it was an extraordinary love match.
- Allana: Extraordinary? Why?
- Sam Lee: Because most people have such strong racial prejudices.
- Allana: Sam, you have the strangest ideas. There're no taboos among people of our class.
- Moy: Do you like to laugh, maybe? Sometimes?
- Sam Lee: Why, of course, I do.
- Moy: Then tonight you come along with me and have - good time. You hear funny song. Funny music. Do you like dance? Do you like white arms?
- Sam Lee: White arms? Do you know any white women, Moy?
- Moy: Oh, plenty! Nice kids! They taught me American dancing.
- Wagner: What I'm going to say to you is not nice; but, it's necessary - like a surgeon's knife. Sam Lee is not even a decent Chinaman. The night I went looking for him, I found him in the "Claudia". It's a - dance hall, an Oriental taxi dance hall, where white women dance with - oh, the reputation of the place is bad enough; but, its nothing compared to the place itself. It's vile! Disgraceful! Degrading! And Sam spends most of his time there.
- Kicker: [During a group date when three women discover Sam is oriental, they refuse to go on with their date for a group dinner with Sam and his two male friends. After they inform Sam, and the other two men are waiting to take the women home, Kicker says to Spud] "You know, Spud, I feel like I just stepped on a baby's fingers."