- Rick Daniels: Ahhh. This'd be Mrs. Pedals, eh?
- Mrs. Weebles, the Housekeeper: Mrs. Weebles.
- Cole King, Impresario: No banter, Daniels.
- Rick Daniels: Well, cheer up. Youth and beauty have arrived and brilliant wit. The old house will re-echo to music and laughter.
- [Rick and Cole exit]
- Mrs. Weebles, the Housekeeper: [tutting after them in disgust] Show people!
- Adelaide Brandt: Oh, it does not matter. We have lived through so much; we will overcome this. I live with you in jail, in hovels. I even live with you in pork pies.
- Doc Brandt: [laughs] It's pig sties, honey.
- Adelaide Brandt: Oh, what's the difference?
- Mrs. Weebles, the Housekeeper: [serving a barbecued sausage] The root of evil.
- Madge Mudge: You said it. Lots of evil has come out of the sea - the whirl for instance.
- Mrs. Weebles, the Housekeeper: Liquor is the root; crime the stem and branches.
- Ruby: [disrespectfully] And what's the fruit?
- Birmingham Brown: Jimmy's just gotten murdered. I just got it over the telephone.
- Charlie Chan: What? Where? Where call come from?
- Birmingham Brown: Uh, uh, 126 Malibu Drive. There's a whole lot of girls there and say they just got murdered.
- Cole King, Impresario: How do you expect to get co-orperation from one you so obviously and wrongly accuse?