Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944)

Sidney Toler: Charlie Chan

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Quotes 

• Tommy Chan : If you're stuck, I'll help you out.

  Charlie Chan : You are like business end of water spout - always running off at mouth.

• Charlie Chan : If man places self in way of finger of suspicion, must not be surprised if he receive poke in the eye.

  Paul Arranto : You suspect me?

  Charlie Chan : Suspicion like rain - fall upon just and unjust. You protect yourself with umbrella of innocence, but at moment I'm afraid your umbrella have big leak.

• Charlie Chan : Very strange woman, Mrs. Hargue.

  Tommy Chan : Yeah, Pop. She's strictly icky, right off the cob and way off the beam.

  Charlie Chan : Could possibly speak English?

  Iris Chan : He means she's a slick chick gone to seed, Pop. She got bats in her head and bees in her bustle.

  Charlie Chan : Language sound very strange to elderly ears.

  Tommy Chan : Sure, Pop, but we're hepcats of the younger generation. You're Confucius and I'm Confucius Junior.

  Charlie Chan : Conficius Junior... Please, go.

• Charlie Chan : Detective without curiosity is like glass eye at keyhole - no good.

• Charlie Chan : Man who never leave wheelchair should never wear out shoe leather.

• Charlie Chan : May learn something of Germans and Japanese here.

  Sgt. Billings : All I wanna know about them is what I can get lookin' over a rifle sight.

  Charlie Chan : Most excellent viewpoint!

• Charlie Chan : You are David Blake, D.P.E. What does that stand for, please?

  David Blake : Department of Political Economy. If you read your newspapers, you'd know more about me.

  Charlie Chan : I, uh, know what columnists say about you in morning paper: Quote, "What David Blake does not know about political economy would fill many books," unquote.

• Charlie Chan : You told to remain in hall!

  Tommy Chan : We were upstairs looking for clues, Pop.

  Charlie Chan : Looking for clues upstairs while murderer downstairs shooting at honorable parent.

  Tommy Chan : Gosh, did they kill you, Pop?

• Charlie Chan : When alibi pushed at me, always suspect motive in woodpile.

• Charlie Chan : [referring to Tommy and Iris]  Children go through life with same tact as tornado.

• Charlie Chan : How can man walk around after he is dead?

• Charlie Chan : Now, Mrs., uh, Winters. When Miss Arranto scream, you ran out into hall?

  Mrs. Winters : Well, not at first. I couldn't move. I was simply putrified.

  Charlie Chan : Excuse, please, I do not believe you mean "putrified."

  Mrs. Winters : My dear man, I KNOW what I mean.

  Inspector Jones, Secret Service : [laughs]  Well, I'll be a pop-eyed pollywog.

  Mrs. Winters : So will I. Oh, my goodness, I mean no such thing!

• Paul Arranto : Murdered? But how?

  Charlie Chan : Electrocution.

  Mrs. Winters : Oh, how shocking!

• Charlie Chan : The trouble with modern children is that they do not smart in right place.

  Tommy Chan : Did Confucius say that, Pop?

  Charlie Chan : No, I say that!

• Tommy Chan : Hey, Pop.

  Charlie Chan : Quiet. Detective at work.