- Eliot Ness: [after a long day searching] Those securities must be in cold storage.
- Agent Cam Allison: That's where I'd like to put my feet!
- Dink Conway: [Courtney objects to his owning a black cat] Surely a big man like you isn't superstitious!
- Joe Courtney: I don't like black cats. I don't like spilled salt, and I don't walk under ladders. What does that make me?
- Dink Conway: [Resignedly] Superstitious.
- Joe Courtney: So take that thing away!