Johnny Kernan: Once they make you walk up an alley, you never use a front door again.

- Richard Widmark (as Johnny Kernan) in O. Henry's Full House (1952)

Soapy: It may interest to you to know, my good man, that I and the minutest coin of the realm are total strangers.
Waiter: How's that?
Soapy: I said I was broke!

- Charles Laughton (as Soapy) in O. Henry's Full House (1952)

Sam 'Slick' Brown: [Being chased by a bear] We're going up a tree, William!
Bill Peoria: Can bears climb trees?
Sam 'Slick' Brown: Here he comes! We'll soon find out!
Sam 'Slick' Brown: [after shimmying up the tree] William, I think it's a cinnamon bear.
Bill Peoria: I don't care what flavor he is. He's more apt to taste me.

- Oscar Levant (as Bill Peoria) in O. Henry's Full House (1952)

Sam 'Slick' Brown: An oil well is a hole in the ground surrounded by suckers.

- Fred Allen (as Sam 'Slick' Brown) in O. Henry's Full House (1952)

Sam 'Slick' Brown: Pull yourself together, William! What's a confidence man without confidence?

- Fred Allen (as Sam 'Slick' Brown) in O. Henry's Full House (1952)