- Buzzie Fenwick: Binnie. A barometer with gut hygrometer.
- Binnie Fenwick: [sarcastically] Just what I've always wanted.
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Madam, what is it you would have me do, appear in court? Besides, only yesterday you asked not to be put in the middle.
- Carolyn Muir: But he could get ten years
- Capt. Daniel Gregg: Yes. Think how long that would keep you out of the middle.
- Norrie Coolidge: [conducting the hearing within his restaurant] All right. All right. All right. Get this hearin' down to business. It's got to be over and done before the lunch rush.
- Claymore Gregg: Oh. Oh, no, no, no, Norrie. You're not going to arrest me.
- Norrie Coolidge: If I don't, Claymore, Sheriff will. I... we need the business.
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- Carolyn Muir: Don't go out into the water too far, don't throw sand, don't bring home any smelly starfish, don't wander off and don't fight, and have a real good time.
- Jonathan Muir: How?
- Carolyn Muir: Don't get smart.
- Carolyn Muir: Claymore, what happened? The whole township is talking about you.
- Claymore Gregg: Hoo-hoo, I'm sure they are, Mrs. Muir. Schooner Bay's Justice of the Peace in jail? How do you think I feel in here behind bars? The smell of onions is awful.