- Anne Leeds: I thought I was too much like your sister to take out.
- Stowe Devlin: Well, the content is similar, but the form is different.
- Tony Armotti: That's your opinion, baby.
- Anne Leeds: [angry] My name is Anne Leeds. You can call me Anne, Miss Leeds or "hey you", anything but baby!
- Anne Leeds: Hussein, I think your name is beautiful.
- Hussein Mohammed: In Mecca maybe but not in Brooklyn!
- Ivy Corlane: Friends and neighbours the time is right! This could be the night!
- Tony Armotti: Ivy, could you give a lift? For Hussein get a new name we got to find a costumer who can add X and Y and get Z.
- Tony Armotti: Mike, another slug.
- Waiter: Hey Tony, how come Baby quit?
- Eduardo, the Headwaiter: Roc wants to talk to you, I know that it's none of my business but I'm curious about why Baby quit.
- Tony Armotti: Eddie, please, don't ask me, if you know what's good for you, don't ask me.
- Anne Leeds: You live like a Casanova with a string of women running up and down the stairs, but when somebody tries to talk to you truthfully you react like an outraged prude. Let me tell you something, you're the museum piece, not me.
- Ivy Corlane: It's a good thing you didn't take that bet, Tony, baby. That's right! No runs. No hits. No errors.
- Patsy St. Clair: Oh boy, four burners, two ovens and a spit. The way other people want diamonds, that's how I want that stove.
- Tony Armotti: Please, not the haughty princess bit. Not when my head is splittin' open.
- Anne Leeds: Oh, would you like me to get you an aspirin?
- Tony Armotti: No, no, no. You can't help me bake a cake either, or pass algebra or get over a heartburn
- Bruce Cameron: Aw, Anne, what are you planning to be when you grow up, an old maid?
- Anne Leeds: Somebody told you.
- Stowe Devlin: I don't know what's come into your life lately, but what it's doing to your disposition is a crime.
- Tony Armotti: Well, it's my life, my club and my disposition.
- Tony Armotti: So what do you want? An amusing item for the eggheads back home? A chapter headed, "Interesting morons I've known"?
- Crystal St. Clair: I'm a girl. An old girl, mind you, but a girl nonetheless. There's certain things we don't tell guys.
- Hussein Mohammed: Yes, I passed algebra. Yes, I picked a new name - Harry Armotti, it was going to be. But if why I'm beginning to think Baby quit is why she quit, I wouldn't use that name of yours for a million bucks!
- Anne Leeds: I vote, the Board of Education lets me teach, and when it comes to knowing my way around, I'll match myself against any dame in the place!
- Tony Armotti: I spotted you the minute you opened your mouth.
- Anne Leeds: I may have some sort of New England accent, if that's what you mean, but I can't help it any more than you can help your New York accent.
- Tony Armotti: What New York accent?
- Tony Armotti: I want to talk to Patsy about Patsy. She's been like a sleepwalker all week. You know, it's gettin' so the customers are too polite to applaud. They're afraid they'll wake her up.
- Bruce Cameron: Why should a girl like Ivy go to night school? And if she does go to night school, why should she take algebra?
- Waiter: Give me a break, Tony.
- Tony Armotti: Oh, you said a mouthful. I'm gonna give you a break!
- [slugs him]
- Tony Armotti: .
- Tony Armotti: I'm free. I got plenty of dough, a club we run to suit us and not the customers, and sense enough to know when I'm well off.
- Rocco: You know who she reminds me of? My ex.
- Tony Armotti: Oh, that must make you happy. How much was it Tina took you for?
- Anne Leeds: Oh, you must hate doing this so conventionally. What a pity you can't hit me like you did that man in the alley.
- Tony Armotti: Don't kid yourself, honey. If I caught you dipping your fingers in the till, I'd clip you, too. But him I didn't fire because he's good at his job, which you're not. Is that nice and clear?
- Anne Leeds: Perfectly. If you're a thief or a liar, you belong at the Tonic. Otherwise, you don't.
- Tony Armotti: Yeah, you tell 'em, sister. Get a soapbox and tell 'em.
- Tony Armotti: There are two waiters and at least four musicians at the club who I know for a fact hate my guts. Let 'em. I don't care.
- Anne Leeds: Maybe I'm not as insensitive as you are. I do care.
- Rocco: You don't understand about Tony. He's the kind of a guy who could wind up in the clink easy, or drivin' a truck, or somethin'.
- Tony Armotti: I kissed a good-looking girl. It's happened before, and the chances are pretty good it'll happen again.
- Tony Armotti: I stood still for a shelacking because I figured I owed you somethin' after ten years. But that paid me up. If you ever raise your voice to me again let alone your hand, I'll beat your brains out.
- Anne Leeds: But I left Massachusetts because I wanted to meet new people and make new friends. Live a litte.
- Tony Armotti: Not in my club.
- Tony Armotti: Do you know anything about the guy?
- Anne Leeds: I know he's one of your best friends.
- Tony Armotti: Well, if you had any sense, that should be enough.
- Tony Armotti: What do you mean hiring a girl like that?
- Waxie London: What do you mean what do I mean hiring a girl like that?
- Master of Ceremonies at Cooking Contest: Tell me, my dear, are you enjoying our contest?
- Patsy St. Clair: Go away!
- Rocco: You must have a pretty good education, huh?
- Anne Leeds: Well, I graduated from Smith last year.
- Rocco: Never heard of it. What kind of a team they got?
- Anne Leeds: Oh, it's a woman's college. A very good one.
- Rocco: What can you do?
- Anne Leeds: Can you tell me what you need, Mr. Rocco.
- Rocco: Anything I say I need, you'll say you got, that's human nature. Besides, I asked you first.
- Patsy St. Clair: Say, Roc, Ma says I'm wearing too much. What do you think?
- Rocco: I don't know, Patsy. Ask Tony.
- Patsy St. Clair: Ah, he'll agree with Ma.
- Rocco: And I'll agree with both of them.
- Patsy St. Clair: Take 'em off! Take 'em off! Take 'em off!
- Anne Leeds: Paula Lee was scratched at the post and horse called, Puddy Tat, made 7.50, and you made something called a round robin.
- Anne Leeds: His attitude was - a little unfortunate.
- Rocco: Made a pass, huh? Well, it figures, a writer sittin' around on this can all day, thinkin'. What else has he got to do? Well, it won't happen here. We got a house rule, me and my partner, no monkeying with the help.
- Ivy Corlane: What's this dolly got that's so special, Roc?
- Rocco: Well, she - she don't know from nuttin'. It's cute.
- Ivy Corlane: You can't mean from nothing?
- Rocco: From nothin'!
- Tony Armotti: That's going a little too far, Roc. She's a hick, I'll grant you; but, so are a lot of farmer's daughters. And you heard about them.