- Judy Perrie: Maybe some day there'll be a law to abolish the blues. Something big, like an amendment to the Constitution. For all of us.
- O'Hara: You ask me why I'm for oppressed people? Because I've got a background of oppression myself, and O'Haras and elephants never forget.
- O'Hara: [to Judy] Let me tell you, dreamboat. Don't think I fell for you. A tree with a flower on: I'd've fallen for that, the way I was feeling. A fish on a dish would-a got me.
- Peter Perrie: This is no place for us, China.
- Judy Perrie: Isn't it, Pete?
- Peter Perrie: A man ought to die at home. A Christian death.
- Peter Perrie: Well I must say, what a funny world where a man's own daughter don't trust him. I must say.
- O'Hara: [to Judy Perrie, after killing Peter Perrie] I'm not sorry for him. He took a job, he knew what was involved. I'm sorry you had to get into this mess. I said it before. You can't do this kind of work and die in bed. It was my life or his.