Jock Mahoney: Yancy Derringer

Quotes 

• [Colton's desk is covered with money] 

  John Colton : Have a look at this.

  Yancy Derringer : I am. In my present financial condition, I've never seen anything so beautiful.

  John Colton : Yes you have. It's all bogus!

• [Before he starts his investigation, Yancy talks Colton into paying for his dinner] 

  John Colton : Please see that I get a return on the investment.

  Yancy Derringer : I'll save the after-dinner mints for you.

• Yancy Derringer : My daddy used to say, "Always go to the aid of people with money. If you're in time, they may reward you; if not you can still go through their pockets before the police arrive."

• Lonesome Jackson : What's an Indian like this wandering around the streets of New Orleans?

  Yancy Derringer : He loves French cooking.

• [Yancy sits in on a poker game with only a small stake] 

  Lonesome Jackson : Oh Yancy, you ain't much of a plunger. That's just chicken feed.

  Yancy Derringer : Don't you know you can get the whole Mississippi River inside a riverboat just by punching one little hole.

• [Yancy has lost all the money Colton gave him to play poker with Lonesome Jackson] 

  Yancy Derringer : Hello, Mr. Colton, can I buy you a drink?

  John Colton : With what, Mr. Derringer?

  Yancy Derringer : You mean you're broke, too?

• [last lines] 

  Miss Mandarin : Yancy, would you be my guest at the Sandric for a midnight supper?

  Yancy Derringer : Your guest? Celestial lady, I'll be your slave.

  [Yancy kisses Miss Mandarin's hand] 

  Miss Mandarin : You and your heathen customs.