Tommy Chan: I don't get it, Pop!
Tommy Chan: [laconically] You are weak limb to which no family tree may point with pride.

- Benson Fong in The Chinese Cat (1944)

Charlie Chan: Not glad to see me, Birmingham?
Birmingham Brown, Taxi Driver: Oh, it's nothing personal, Mr. Chan, but the last time we met was in Washington. If I remember right, there was two or three murders.
Charlie Chan: Murder is my business.
Birmingham Brown, Taxi Driver: Murder's all right, Mr. Chan, but you wholesale it!

- Mantan Moreland in The Chinese Cat (1944)