- Frank Murphy: Hey, you stay away from that loose girl down on River Street. I don't want any half-slut grandkids.
- Kevin Murphy: We're not doing anything!
- Frank Murphy: Neither was I. That's how you got here!
- Bill Murphy: Dad, do you anything about magnets?
- Frank Murphy: A buddy of mine from the war has one in his head. We used to throw paper clips at it. Does that help you?
- Frank Murphy: [On the phone irritably just as he was about to eat dinner with his family] Murphy residence! Oh, let me tell you something you goddamn son of a bitch! I don't need a goddamn engraved family bible!
- [to his family]
- Frank Murphy: You see? You see? What'd I say? Every goddamn time!
- [to the telemarketer]
- Frank Murphy: I am eating dinner with my family young man! I don't need a $20.00 Bible to teach me about God! I almost bled out in Korea, all right? I have met God! What did you say to me? Oh, you come down here and say that to me like a man! I swear to God, I'll pull your tongue out through your goddamn neck!
- [He tries to slam the phone on the receiver, but has trouble doing so since it's a wall phone. He finally does so]
- Frank Murphy: Why did they have to put the goddamn things on the wall?