A Lion Is in the Streets

Verity Wade:
It's these folks. They're all so wonderful.

Hank Martin:
Well, all folks is wonderful. You just have to know the right place to kick 'em in.

Verity Wade:
What?

Hank Martin:
Sure. It's like learnin' to play a musical instrument by ear. All you gotta know is what place to push to get what note. Then pretty soon, everybody's dancin'...to your tune.

Flamingo:
I've been your wife ever since I knowed what the word meant.

Hank Martin:
Brighten up, sweet-face, brighten up, 'cause you married a winner, not a loser!

Hank Martin:
Polli, anyone ever warn you - Flamingo ever warn you about makin' a house pet of a wildcat?

Guy Polli:
I don't believe she ever mentioned it.

Hank Martin:
Well, you might get bit.

Hank Martin:
[Angrily] Castleberry, there's a disease called Pellegra. You ever hear how it's ommunicated?

Verity Wade:
Hank, we were talkin' about the house...

Hank Martin:
It's communicated by not gettin' enough to eat, and it's very common in counties where your cotton gins are. [to Jules] Jules, I'm very sorry. I don't mean any offense to you, but my wife and I can't eat where a man what's been committin' pellegra.

Jules Bolduc:
Well, I don't...

Robert L. Castleberry IV:
I think I do. Would you mind explainin' your remark, sir?

Hank Martin:
Not at all. I'm callin' you a thief... a blood-suckin' thief!

Jules Bolduc:
Hank, that's enough. You know very well there's a state inspection board that takes care of them things.

Hank Martin:
What I wanna know is who inspects the inspectors?

Jules Bolduc:
Governor Charles Swindon inspects the inspectors. He's a self-made man just like you, and he's my friend... and he's honest, just like Robert Castleberry, who also happens to be my godfather.

Hank Martin:
Well, Jules, I never had no godfather, and I was almost too poor to have a father, so I must be poor, and you must be vey. very, right.

Hank Martin:
Wheels within wheels within wheels.

Hank Martin:
Well, sometimes a man just don't got time for common sense.