The Black Camel Quotes

Alan Jaynes: [angrily] Look here, Inspector, I haven't time to sit around for Chinese picture puzzles! My ship sails at midnight!

Charlie Chan: You are rejected suitor.

Alan Jaynes: But I've given you an airtight alibi.

Charlie Chan: Sorry, but alibi have habit of disappearing like hole in water.

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Alan Jaynes: [angrily] Look here, Inspector, I haven't time to sit around for Chinese picture puzzles! My ship sails at midnight!
Charlie Chan: You are rejected suitor.
Alan Jaynes: But I've given you an airtight alibi.
Charlie Chan: Sorry, but alibi have habit of disappearing like hole in water.

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Charlie Chan: [in car being driven by Chan] May I ask your, uh, continued assistance? Sometimes very difficult to pick up pumpkin with one finger.

Tarneverro: [reacting to Chan's poor driving] Have you been driving long?

Charlie Chan: No. At first I'm pretty bad driver. But now me and road turn corner same time.

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Charlie Chan: [solemnly] There is old saying, 'Death is a black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate.' Tonight black camel knelt here.

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Charlie Chan: A thousand pardons. Assault and battery not permitted without license from boxing commission.

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Charlie Chan: A thousand pardons. Assault and battery not permitted without license from boxing commission.

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Charlie Chan: Kashimo, I despair trying to make you smart man. Soap and water never can change perfume of billy goat.

Kashimo: [smiling] Yes!

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Charlie Chan: [after finding a desperate letter from the murdered woman] Always happens- When conscience try to speak, telephone out of order.

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Charlie Chan: Death is a black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate.

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Charlie Chan: Alas, mouse cannot cast shadow like elephant.

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Charlie Chan: Always harder to keep murder secret than for egg to bounce on sidewalk.

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Charlie Chan: [about his assistant Kashimo] Can cut off monkey's tail, but he's still monkey.

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Charlie Chan: Way to find rabbit's residence is to turn rabbit loose and watch.

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Charlie Chan: Secret of this case harder to determine than alley cat's grandfather.

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Charlie Chan: You quench fire of my curiosity with handful of *straw*!

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Charlie Chan: Learn from hen- Never boast about egg until *after* egg's birthday.

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Kashimo: Think we make mistake?

Charlie Chan: Who can say? Even wisest man sometimes mistake bumblebee for blackberry.

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Rita Ballou: If I were a dose of poison, I'd give myself to you.

Charlie Chan: Thank you so much.

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Tarneverro: Would you be surprised if I asked you to arrest a murderer?

Charlie Chan: No, all foxes come at last to fur store.

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Wilkie Ballou: Your theory's full of holes. It won't hold water!

Charlie Chan: Sponge is full of holes. Sponge holds water.

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[after the murder has been solved]

Kashimo: Clue, clue!

Charlie Chan: Too late. Save for next case.

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[after the murder has been solved]

Kashimo: Clue, clue!

Charlie Chan: Too late- Save for *next* case!

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