Murphy: All right, all right, I'll make the announcement. The Ralph Caesar murder case is solved.
Marx: That's right, gentlemen. And I think that you should know that the credit belongs to Inspector Richard Queen, the Homicide Bureau, and not to Mr. Irwin Murphy, that well-known political hack.
Ellery: Oh, boy, how's that for a resignation?

Inspector Queen (about Murphy): Now there's a man who wants to be governor in the worst way.

Caesar: How do I look?
Inspector Queen: Like a man in a false mustache.

Velie: Listen, Caesar, I gotta guard you but I don't have to listen to any of your guff.

Caesar: What if I want some fresh air?
Inspector Queen: If you open a window remember that first breath may be your last.

Murphy: This had better be the most thorough murder investigation ever conducted by the homicide bureau.
Inspector Queen: They're all thorough!

Ellery: How'd he look when you found him?
Inspector Queen: Dead.

Velie: Inspector, we got a break.
Inspector Queen: We could use one.

Ellery: The Commissioner's your age. Nobody's saying he's over the hill.
Inspector Queen: He's not on the firing line.

Franks (to Ellery): Readin' about murder--that helps me relax.