- Nathaniel Ridpath: [quieting a normally threatening dog] He's a fightin' dog. I've raised 'em.
- Nathaniel Ridpath: [to the dog] You'd rather die than admit you're beaten, right boy?
- Nathaniel Ridpath: [reflectively] That's the way a man must live.
- Nellie O'Shea: I know your sort. Coax honey from the bees, you would, then fly off on the next wind.
- [thinking Nellie's dog killed the stranger, Chief Stamp locks Shamrock in the town jail]
- Hec Ramsey: Well, Chief, if you can show me how a dog can make a fist, then I'll tell you you're entitled to keep him right where he is.
- Nellie O'Shea: Ahh, you sweet-talkin' leprechauns are all alike. You'll promise the moon, but don't try to collect till the day after the end of the world.
- Doc Amos B. Coogan: [explaining a placebo] See, it's mind over matter. You tell a man that something's medicine and that it's gonna make him feel better and, by gum, it does.
- Hec Ramsey: And, by gum, you're gittin' spookier every day.