- Coroner Wilbur Strong: His end of telephone conversation in a restaurant: "Yes, this is the coroner... I will? Over my dead bodies... Well, I can't help you looked all afternoon, I'm at an important meeting of the International Committee for the Elimination of Starvation... All right, but I want you gentlemen to remember one statement, made in my official capacity: 'I'll be seein' ya.'"
- Perry Mason: Well, Wilbur, what is the latest error of my astute grand jury friends?
- Coroner Wilbur Strong: Some geek by the name of Gregory Moxley.
- Perry Mason: Sounds like a toothpaste!
- Coroner Wilbur Strong: Was laid gently to rest 4 years ago at Meadowbrook Cemetery.
- Perry Mason: Say, That's mighty nice country up there. You get a marvelous view of the mountains and ocean.
- Coroner Wilbur Strong: Some lunatic thinks he saw Moxley on the street and the grand jury wants me to look in the coffin.
- Perry Mason: Better look in the coffin, Wilbur. We'll finish our coffee at the morgue.
- Coroner Wilbur Strong: [to a morgue assistant] Get a can opener, son. We'll see whether this Moxley died of pneumonia or wild hair.
- Coroner Wilbur Strong: [to assistants as he is entering the morgue with Mason and Spudsy] Get three slabs ready - I'm bringing friends!
- District Attorney Stacey: [Referring to the whereabouts of Detective Lucas, who's obviously avoiding Perry] Probably find him at the club. Out yesterday I shot a...
- Perry Mason: [Frustrated] You boys ain't playin' golf. You're playing hide-and-seek. It's a kid's game at best, Mr. D.A.
- Perry Mason: [a frustrated Mason uses his cane to hit one of the golf balls on Stacey's floor and it hits a nearby lamp] Bad shot, Mr. Mason.
- Perry Mason: [On his way out the door] Hah-hah!
- Toots Howard: How do you figure it, toots?
- Coroner Wilbur Strong: It looks to me like Perry was born with a lot of horseshoes.
- Toots Howard: Yes, he always puts one in his glove when he swings a fast one at the D.A.
- [laughter]
- Fremont Hotel Telephone Operator: [Sarcastically to Spudsy, who has just asked her to have lunch with him] Well, I generally don't accept invitations from gentlemen, but I think you're pretty safe.