- Katherine Shelley: See, you are running away.
- Steve Singleton: From what?
- Katherine Shelley: From the world.
- Steve Singleton: Unless a man wants to live on dried fish and coconuts, he has to run away from the world between jobs.
- Sir Cecil Daubrey: Whereas Mousey and I were two against one, we are now distinctly in the minority. I don't think you have to doubt our love and affection.
- Steve Singleton: He wants to make a deal with me to freeze out you and Sykes.
- Sir Cecil Daubrey: Understandable. Did you?
- Steve Singleton, Sir Cecil Daubrey: Well, I told him I'd like a little time to think it over. You see, I've had other offers.
- Sir Cecil Daubrey: Mousey?
- Steve Singleton: Surprised?
- Sir Cecil Daubrey: Not at all. I was about to make you an offer myself.
- Steve Singleton: I was rather hoping you would.
- Algernon 'Mousey' Sykes: I never had the benefit of anyone at Oxford, but we think alike.
- Sir Cecil Daubrey: That, I question. Let's say that objectively we are working toward the same end.
- Steve Singleton: The first sign of a double-cross from you two cockroaches and I'll pin faces with Johnson against you.
- Katherine Shelley: I heard the music, so I put two and two together and said to myself... mmm, you're cooking pancakes.
- Steve Singleton: You don't make sense, but you've got a pretty good sniffer.
- Gerald 'Jumbo' Johnson: Singleton, before we bring up these last two bars, I'd like to make you a proposition.
- Steve Singleton: It'll be crooked, but I'm listening.
- Gerald 'Jumbo' Johnson: Your partners?
- Steve Singleton: Sure. Two of the scummiest waterfront rats that ever put a knife in a man's back You'd like 'em, Jumbo. They're just your type.