Side Street Quotes

[first lines]

Capt. Walter Anderson: New York City: an architectural jungle where fabulous wealth and the deepest squalor live side by side. New York is the busiest, the loneliest, the kindest, and the cruelest of cities - a murder a day, every day of the year and each murder will wind up on my deak.

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Capt. Walter Anderson: [to other cops at the murder scene] That's evidence you know - no souvenirs!

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Gus Heldon: [behind the bar] Hello, young fella.
[Noticing the marks on his face]

Gus Heldon: Say, you been in an accident?

Joe Norson: Yeah, I'll have a beer.

Gus Heldon: What you need is a pick-me-up.
[he gives him a shot glass]

Gus Heldon: 100 proof.
[giving him a beer]

Gus Heldon: You can pay for the chaser.

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Emil Lorrison: I couldn't raise the whole amount, only half. That's all I'll be able to raise.

Lucille 'Lucky' Colner: Oh, come on now, sweetie. That isn't what Dun and Bradstreet says. They give you a Double A rating.

Emil Lorrison: Those ratings mean nothing. $15,000 was all I could manage.
[Angrily]

Emil Lorrison: The entire affair was a filthy frame-up!

Lucille 'Lucky' Colner: [with contempt] Take a look at yourself, Grandpa! First you sell yourself I'm nuts about you, crazy for your manly charms, and now you think this is bargain day! Well, go down to Gimbel's Bargain Basement! You're in the wrong department! Take the other fifteen grand out of your pants opr get out!

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Harriette Sinton: [drunkenly putting her arm around him] Hey, I fit, don't I?

Joe Norson: Like a motorman's glove!

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Jimmy O'Farrell: Hello, Patrick. How are you tonight?

Patrick Doyle: Well, I'm better than I was before I was as bad as I am now.

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Jimmy O'Farrell: Hello, Patrick. How are you tonight?

Patrick Doyle: Well, I'm better than I was before I was as bad as I am now.

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Jimmy O'Farrell: Hello, Patrick. How are you tonight?
Patrick Doyle: Well, I'm better than I was before I was as bad as I am now.

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