Dark Alibi

Charlie Chan:
[to Morgan] Government work keep me hopping like dissatisfied flea from dog to dog.

Anthony R. Morgan:
Charlie, what can one man do against the entire legal force of the state?

Charlie Chan:
Ancient proverb say, "One small wind can raise much dust."

Charlie Chan:
[to Birmingham and Tommy] Always sitting! Wish you would wear out brains instead of seat of pants.

Tommy Chan:
Pop, we have been thinking...

Charlie Chan:
Most impossible.

Birmingham Brown:
Oh, yes sir, Mr. Chan. We've been thinkin'.

Charlie Chan:
And now you have a headache.

Charlie Chan:
Please continue.

Mrs. Foss:
That's all I have to say.

Charlie Chan:
That's what woman always say, yet go right on talking.

Charlie Chan:
[Encouraging June] Remember old saying: "Earthquake may shatter rock, but sand upon which rock stood still right there in same old place."

Birmingham Brown:
[Driving] Mr. Chan, is this the shortest way to prison?

Charlie Chan:
No, shortest way is commit crime.

Charlie Chan:
Skeletons in closets always speak loudest to police.

Charlie Chan:
You two not afraid?

Tommy Chan:
Afraid of what, Pop?

Charlie Chan:
That you sit down so often you get concussion of brain.

Tommy Chan:
Pop, I got a swell idea!

Charlie Chan:
Good. Save it for old age.

Charlie Chan:
I will sit in car while you two enjoy nervous breakdown.

Birmingham Brown:
Hurry? Why do you always have to hurry to a murder? Why can't you just ooze on down to one?

Mrs. Foss:
Being a detective is an ugly trade.

Charlie Chan:
Ugliest trade sometimes have moment of joy. Even gravedigger know some people for whom he would do his work with extreme pleasure.

Emily Evans:
Listen, are you trying to pin something on me?

Charlie Chan:
[holding her skimpy dance costume] No, merely at moment trying to figure how you pin upon yourself such very few feathers.

Tommy Chan:
You don't even know what a lawsuit is.

Birmingham Brown:
Sure I do. It's something that the police wears.

Charlie Chan:
Son Tommy is noisy woodpecker on family tree.

Tommy Chan:
I see where the bullets are coming from.

Birmingham Brown:
Yeah, but I don't wanna look no bullets in the eye.