- Frank 'Legs' Gordon: I'll handle her myself. You guys are all the same. Just like Simelli, you can't forget the rough stuff. Oh, I don't know why I'm so successful with a lot of lame brains like you guys in my organization.
- Frank 'Legs' Gordon: I'm gonna throw her some of my business if she'll handle it. She's a smart dame with plenty of moxie. We could use her.
- Frank 'Legs' Gordon: Did you get away clean?
- Augie Simelli (henchman #1): I'm here, ain't I? The old Dutchman tried to grab me, but, I hung one on his chin. He went out like a light.
- Frank 'Legs' Gordon: Aw. More rough stuff, eh? I ought to punch you in the nose. He's liable to squawk.
- Mary Wentworth: Sorry I'm late, Franz; but, it isn't everyday that a girl gets sworn in as a lawyer.
- Eddie O'Malley: It kinda makes me feel warm all over. You know, I ain't never had a lady client before and workin' for you is gonna be a feather in my cap.
- Dorothy 'Dot' Davis: Well, Eddie, if it's feathers you want, I hope we give you enough papers to serve to make you an Indian Chief.
- Eddie O'Malley: Gee, thanks, Miss Davis! Thanks.
- Frank 'Legs' Gordon: [to Mary] From now on you're gonna be my mouthpiece. And here's $10,000 - just as kind of a retainer.
- Eddie O'Malley: I was lookin' for Mr. Wentworth and Mr. Davis, but, I see they ain't in.
- Dorothy 'Dot' Davis: Well, you're talking to the Davis of the firm right now.
- Eddie O'Malley: Oh, you mean you're a - a lady lawyer?
- Dorothy 'Dot' Davis: I mean that I'm Davis of the firm Wentworth and Davis, Counselors at Law. We'll forget that lady part.
- Mary Wentworth: Jesse James is a Boy Scout compared to him. Why, he's the biggest racketeer in town.
- Mary Wentworth, Dorothy 'Dot' Davis: [phone rings] A client!
- Dorothy 'Dot' Davis: Bread and butter.
- Mary Wentworth: Needles and pins.
- Dorothy 'Dot' Davis: Knives and forks.
- Mary Wentworth: [picks up the phone] Wentworth and Davis...
- Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell: It's a long time since I've ridden the subway out to Brooklyn.
- Mary Wentworth: An aristocrat, eh? Well, it won't hurt you this once. Besides it's good for the circulation, it shakes up the liver. You never heard of anyone from Brooklyn needing an osteopath, did you?
- Mary Wentworth: I thought the court was a place where they served justice.
- Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell: Look, Mary, why don't you give it all up?
- Mary Wentworth: Give up?
- Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell: I'm making forty-five hundred a year now and that's enough for both of us. Mary, will you marry me?
- Mary Wentworth: Give me a year. I can learn a lot of tricks in a year.
- Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell: Okay, it's a bargain. The worst of luck to you.
- Mary Wentworth: I'm going to stick it out, Bob. You don't want to marry a failure.
- Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell: But, what if you don't succeed? Mary, the law's no profession for a woman.
- Mary Wentworth: My, but you're encouraging. Don't tell me you're one of those 'woman's place is in the home' me.
- Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell: Ah, no. I didn't mean it the way it sounded. But, Mary the legal profession is full of tricks and technicalities. It's not for a woman.
- Mary Wentworth: Women have been known to learn tricks.
- Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell: Sure. I don't want my wife to know too many of them.
- Mary Wentworth: I'm surprised you even wanting to call on a shyster like me.
- Frank 'Legs' Gordon: You're no shyster. You're just a stubborn, pig-headed, wise-cracking, female and you ought to be turned over somebody's knee and have the 'by golly' spanked right out of you!
- Mary Wentworth: Naughty, naughty. I got a legal separation last week for a woman whose husband spanked her.
- Asst. Dist. Atty. Robert Mitchell: In the law racket, it ain't in how many books you got, not what you can find in 'em, it's the tricks you can dig up out of your old noggin. Now, ain't you got an idea or two in that head of your's, huh?
- Frank 'Legs' Gordon: How's my beautiful mouthpiece this morning?
- Mary Wentworth: All right, but, I wish you'd stop talking like a dentist office.
- Herman Keys - Henchman #2: You know, sister, I knows your a dame with brains when I first sees ya.
- Dorothy 'Dot' Davis: Yeah?
- Herman Keys - Henchman #2: And swell company too. What do you do for a livin'?
- Dorothy 'Dot' Davis: I'm a lawyer.
- Herman Keys - Henchman #2: A lady mouthpiece? Jes like your gurlfriend?
- Herman Keys - Henchman #2: You won't give me a stand up?
- Dorothy 'Dot' Davis: Not me!
- Herman Keys - Henchman #2: Gee, baby, you're the class.