- Tampico Tess: What do you boys think of me, anyway?
- Ben Lear: Well, Tess...
- Dan Manton: We think you're a perfect... lady.
- Tampico Tess: [laughing] Well, if you do, you're crazy.
- [still smiling]
- Tampico Tess: I know what you think, and you're right! I'm a '23 model with a '33 paint job. I'm running a honky-tonk, and I've run lots worse ones than this. When I was young, I got what I wanted by loving; now that I'm old, I get what I want by fighting. I like a fight.
- Tampico Tess: Here's what he says at the end of it, "And if I can ever repay you for that favor, just call on me. Gratefully yours, William Conway." You get that? Gratefully yours. Boys, that's what I'm banking on!
- Bill Conway: All right, then, I'll give you 50. And you two boys will have to work hard to make up the difference. Business is business. But, I like Tess. Sort of a sentimentalist touch.
- Dan Manton: She was sorry she couldn't come up.
- Bill Conway: I'm glad she couldn't. She'd have got 200,000.
- Bill Conway: I'd like to have you out to the house for dinner; but, I'm leaving town for two or three days.
- Dan Manton: Oh, that's quite all right. I'll look out for myself.
- Bill Conway: Too bad to turn a young man loose in a big city, alone. Say, Dill, can't you fix up some entertainment for him?
- Mr. Dill (Conway's secretary): I think that can be arranged; if Mr. Manton doesn't mind there being a feminine element.
- Dan Manton: Oh, that's quite all right!
- Mr. Dill (Conway's secretary): Good, I think I know just the type. Where can I reach you Mr. Manton?
- Dan Manton: I'm stopping at the Commercial Hotel.
- Mr. Dill (Conway's secretary): I'll call you there.
- Dan Manton: Thank you.
- Bill Conway: Dill is our ladies man, around here. He'll probably fix you up with some charming young girl that will entertain you.
- Dan Manton: That's fine!
- Dan Manton: Miss Gordon?
- Claire Gordon: You're Mister - ?
- Dan Manton: Dan Manton. I hope you don't think I have a lot of nerve.
- Claire Gordon: Oh, no. I always think things that happen unexpectedly are much more fun! Don't you?
- Dan Manton: Just like a wildcat comin' in a gusher!
- Harry Banning: She's the wrong kind! You understand? I thought he'd get wise to her. Instead of that, he goes and marries her. What gets me is, what chance have I got for my investment, when he can go so far wrong on a woman! I tell you - she's - she's no good!
- Ben Lear: On a job like this, a dame is a cinch to gum up the parade. It's tough enough to keep up this gang's mind on work without flashing a skirt in front of 'em.
- Dan Manton: What's the matter, honey?
- Claire Gordon: I was hoping Ben would like me.
- Dan Manton: Don't pay any attention to Ben. He's a little grumpy from working too hard.
- Claire Gordon: I want to be a help, Dan. I don't want to - gum up the parade.
- Dan Manton: Forget about it. He'll like you. He likes anything I like. Say, this is gonna be the greatest three-way partnership that ever was!
- Ben Lear: Three million guys in New York and you have to pick out Dan. He looked like big dough and you went after the money and you married him.
- Ben Lear: See you in the morning. You know, morning's are a great invention. Every one of 'em is the beginning of a new day.
- Ben Lear: You know Dan, from now on there ought to be one of us on the job all the time.
- Dan Manton: Yeah.
- Ben Lear: What'll I take the day or the night shift? - - What'll I wear? Overalls or pajamas?
- Dan Manton: Take the night shift.
- Ben Lear: Okay. Gee, that's tough. I was just gonna break in a new pair of silk pajamas.
- [last lines]
- Dan Manton: Did you ever see a gusher come in?
- Claire Gordon: No.
- Dan Manton: Well, you're gonna see ours.
- Claire Gordon: Ours?
- Escort Service Proprietor: [the phone rings, and a blonde in a flimsy negligee enters to answer it] I hope this is business! Hello?
- Mr. Dill (Conway's secretary): This is Dill... Yes. Have you got a good-looking girl for two or three days to entertain a friend of Mr. Conway's from out of town?... No, I don't know whether he likes blondes or brunettes. But get someone snappy who won't scare him to death. In other words, a lady... OK, send me the bill.
- [They hang up]
- Escort Service Proprietor: Claire?
- Claire Gordon: Yeah?
- Escort Service Proprietor: Snap into it, you're going to work.