- Hotshot Charlie: How you doin'? Get the short fixed?
- Terry Lee: Yeah. How's the radio?
- Hotshot Charlie: Good old Hotshot, boy genius, has done it again.
- Terry Lee: Let's get goin'. Drag up the ladder.
- Hotshot Charlie: Aye-aye... yi-yi-yiyiyiyi.
- [a beautiful blonde climbs aboard Terry's airplane]
- Georgia: Well, I declare you boys aren't Chinese a'tall. Hope y'all don't mind me bargin' in like this.
- Terry Lee: Mind?
- Hotshot Charlie: Well, fan my brow and hand me a mint julep.
- Hotshot Charlie: I'm Georgia Pettigrew.
- Hotshot Charlie: Charles C. Charles, ma'am.
- [indicates Terry]
- Hotshot Charlie: Terence Lee, noted airplane driver.
- Chopstick Joe: Now that you've got that body out of here, I can breathe again.
- Lt. Leong: According to his papers, Ed Norton was the mate on the coastal freight Mandarin. I ask you again - did you know this man?
- Vorick: I've told you "no". Now what you are getting at, Lieutenant?
- Lt. Leong: Merely that where murder and violence are, there also is Mr. Vorick. Sometime we will prove this is no coincidence.
- Chopstick Joe: You come in on the Canton flight? Where's my Romeos?
- Georgia: I declare you've got the darlin'est flyer in the world! I'm so crazy about him, I can't tell you.
- Chopstick Joe: Lieutenant, all right if I go talk to my flyboys? Cornpone is too much for me.
- Chopstick Joe: You and your cheesecake. A noose is around my throat and all he can think of is dames!
- Terry Lee: Yeah, where are your feelings, Chaz?
- Hotshot Charlie: In there with Miss Dixieland of 1952.
- Terry Lee: Aw, relax, Chops. You're in the clear - that's the main thing.
- Chopstick Joe: Lots of guys have said that just before the jury's brought in the wrong verdict.
- Lt. Leong: Experience has taught us the guilty one makes the most noise about his innocence.
- Chopstick Joe: Experience, Lieutenant, is word police use for mistake.
- Lt. Leong: Who killed Mr. Norton?
- Chopstick Joe: Not having crystal ball in good working order, nor hindsight, nor foresight... I do not know.
- Terry Lee: You know, when he got off the hook with the lieutenant this afternoon, I thought he'd be a nice, sweet, lovable guy.
- Chopstick Joe: Don't laugh, Terry. I was on the spot!
- Hotshot Charlie: Why? You were innocent.
- Chopstick Joe: That's what made it rough. I didn't know how to handle myself.
- Terry Lee: Hey, Chops, where are those manifests? We want to get going.
- Hotshot Charlie: Aw, he's probably guzzling tea in the privacy of his boudoir... one of those solitary drinkers.