- Det. Tim Tilson: Don't you think he did it?
- Capt. Amos Burke: Burke's Law, Burke's sad law. Juries don't convict because what Burke thinks.
- Capt. Amos Burke: I'll bite. What is black and white with fuzz inside?
- Athelstone Scone: A police car. Like those outside.
- Capt. Amos Burke: Did you kill her?
- Hooper: Surely you jest, Inspector!
- Capt. Amos Burke: I don't jest about murder
- Hooper: A butler commit a slaying? I don't think such a thing has happened since the earlier works of Miss Agatha Christie.