- Paul Madvig: I'm going to society. He's practically given me the key to his house.
- Ed Beaumont: Yeah, a glass key. Be sure it doesn't break in your hand.
- Nick Varna: I'm too big to take the boot from you now.
- Paul Madvig: You may be too big to take it laying down, Nick, but you're gonna take it. You are taking it.
- [On the phone to the police chief]
- Paul Madvig: Look, Rainey, I just got the tip that Nick is opening his Golden Club, tonight. Yeah, slam them down so hard they'll splash.
- [Hangs up]
- Paul Madvig: Well, Nick, now you know where you stand.
- [to Janet Henry]
- Ed Beaumont: I get along very well with Paul because he's on the dead up-and-up. Why don't *you* try it sometime?
- Nurse: Are you awake? There's a lady here to see you.
- Ed Beaumont: What kind of a lady?
- Nurse: Miss Janet Henry.
- Ed Beaumont: Tell her to go away.
- Nurse: I can't do that. She knows you're better.
- Ed Beaumont: When are we gonna be alone again?
- Nurse: *Never* if I can help it.
- Ed Beaumont: Then I suppose I'll *have* to see her.
- Nurse: No wonder people *beat* you up.
- Ed Beaumont: What'll we talk about?
- Janet Henry: You.
- [pause]
- Janet Henry: Comfortable here?
- Ed Beaumont: More or less.
- Janet Henry: No fun?
- Ed Beaumont: No fun.
- Janet Henry: Hasn't your *nurse* been treating you well?
- Ed Beaumont: Not as well as I'd like.
- Janet Henry: Poor boy. If I'd known you were being neglected, I would have come sooner.
- Man at campaign headquarters: But Paul, I can't make my boys vote the reform ticket!
- Paul Madvig: Why not? Most of them come from the reform school.
- Paul Madvig: [to hospital doctor] Look... If that guy dies, I'm gonna turn this place into a warehouse.
- Jeff: Well, if it ain't sock-me-again Beaumont!
- Ed Beaumont: Hello, Jeff.
- Jeff: Hey, Gang! Meet the swellest guy I ever skinned a knuckle on.
- Jeff: We're gonna have a little drink.
- Ed Beaumont: Okay.
- [Walks to the bar]
- Jeff: No, not with these mugs!
- [Directs Ed toward the stairs]
- Jeff: I got just the place for me and you - a little room upstairs that's too small for you to fall down in. I can bounce you around off the walls. That way we won't be wasting a lot of time while you get up off the floor.
- [Turns to the crowd]
- Jeff: Excuse us, gents. We gotta go up and play handball. Me and Cuddles.
- Ed Beaumont: [Mock toasting Jeff] Here's lookin' at ya.
- Jeff: I don't wanna look at you. You're a heel.
- Jeff: Sit down. Go on, sit in any chair you want to sit in. If you don't like that one, take another one. I want you to consider yourself my guest. We'll have a couple of drinks, and then I'm gonna knock your teeth out.
- Jeff: I know what you're up to. You're a heel! That's what you are. You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna beat the hide off you.
- [to the waiter, after Jeff has strangled Nick Varna]
- Ed Beaumont: Get the cops. Better get a doctor, too, in case Varna's not dead.
- Jeff: Better get an undertaker in case he is.
- [laughs]
- [Jeff has just strangled Nick Varna]
- Ed Beaumont: Take it easy, Jeff.
- Jeff: I'm just a big, good-natured slob. Anybody can push me around all they want to. And I never do anything about it.
- [laughs]