- Harry 'Heliotrope Harry' Melton: [to Eddie Smith, just before shooting him] Enjoy your cigarette. Because after that you're going to quit smoking.
- Harry 'Heliotrope Harry' Melton: I don't know what to say. I feel like a heel, as if I'd let you take the rap alone.
- Flo Melton: Forget it. Having a kid's something every woman's got to do on her own.