Ambassador Trentino: Have you been trailing Firefly? Chicolini: Have we been trailing Firefly? Why, my partner, he's got a nose just like a bloodhound. Ambassador Trentino: Oh really? Chicolini: Yeah, and the rest of his face don't look so good eithe...
Rufus T. Firefly: [to Trentino] Now, how about lending this country twenty million dollars, you old skinflint? Ambassador Trentino: Twenty million dollars is a lot of money. I'd have to take that up with my Minister of Finance. Rufus T. Firefly: Well...
Ambassador Trentino: But I asked you to dig up something I can use against Firefly. Did you bring me his record? [Pinky hands him a gramophone record] Ambassador Trentino: No, no! [Trentino flings the record away like a clay pigeon skeet. Pinky takes...
Ambassador Trentino: You didn't shadow Firefly? Chicolini: Oh, sure we shadow Firefly - we shadow him all day. Ambassador Trentino: But what day was that? Chicolini: Shadowday! [laughs loudly] Chicolini: That's-a some joke, eh, boss? [Trentino buries...
Chicolini: Mister you no understand. Look, he's a spy and I'm a spy, he work-a for me. I want him to find out-a something, but he no find out what I wanna find out. Now how am I gonna find out what I wanna find out if he no find out what I gotta find...
Rufus T. Firefly: [to Chicolini] Come on up here, I wanna scare the cabinet.
Rufus T. Firefly: Chicolini, I need you badly right now. What'll you take to come back and work for me again? Chicolini: I'll take a vacation. Rufus T. Firefly: Good, you're hired.
Prosecutor: Chicolini, when were you born? Chicolini: I don't-a remember. I was just a little baby. Prosecutor: Isn't it true you tried to sell Freedonia's secret war code and plans? Chicolini: Sure, I sold a code and two pair of plans.
[Firefly and Mrs. Teasdale hear music coming from downstairs] Mrs. Teasdale: What's that? Rufus T. Firefly: Sounds to me like mice. Mrs. Teasdale: Mice? Mice don't play music. Rufus T. Firefly: No? How about the old maestro?
Rufus T. Firefly: Here are the plans of war. They're as valuable as your life. And that's putting them pretty cheap. Watch them like a cat watched her kittens. Have you ever had kittens? No, of course not, you're too busy running around playing bridg...
Freedonia's Secretary of War: How about taking up the tax? Rufus T. Firefly: How 'bout taking up the carpet? Freedonia's Secretary of War: I still insist we must take up the tax. Rufus T. Firefly: He's right, you've gotta take up the tacks before you...
Mrs. Teasdale: Oh, your Excellency! Rufus T. Firefly: You're not so bad yourself.
Mrs. Teasdale: Your Excellency! I thought you'd left. Chicolini: [Impersonating Rufus T. Firefly] Oh, no, I no leave. Mrs. Teasdale: But I saw you with my own eyes! Chicolini: Well, who you gonna believe? Me or your own eyes?
Ambassador Trentino: Chicolini, your partner has deserted you but I'm still counting on you. There is a machine gun nest near Hill 28. I want it cleaned out. Chicolini: All right, I'll tell the janitor.
Chicolini: [to Rufus T. Firefly] Peanuts to you!
Rufus T. Firefly: [after Pinky drives off without him for the third time] This is the only way to travel.
Ambassador Trentino: I've said enough, I'm a man of few words. Rufus T. Firefly: I'm a man of one word: Scram!
Rufus T. Firefly: [with his head stuck in a vase] The last time this happened to me I was crawling under a bed.
