Simon Little: Why you-you fool! You big, stupid, blundering fool!
Harry 'Cueball' Lake: Shaddup!
Simon Little: You killed him... you murdered Abbott! Why did you kill him? Why? Why?
Harry 'Cueball' Lake: 'Cause he was gonna plug me. Okay. I got the diamonds - where's my dough?
Simon Little: Keep the diamonds... go to the chair with them. I won't touch them.
Harry 'Cueball' Lake: You rat!


--Dick Wessel (as Harry 'Cueball' Lake) in Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

Filthy Flora, Dripping Dagger Proprietor: I thought they put ya away for ten years.
Harry 'Cueball' Lake: They did.
Filthy Flora, Dripping Dagger Proprietor: Ten years! Time sure flies, don't it?
Harry 'Cueball' Lake: Not where I was, it don't!


--Dick Wessel (as Harry 'Cueball' Lake) in Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

Sanderson, 1st Mate: What kind of a crazy deal did you get us into?
Capt. Tarnowski: It ain't so crazy. A woman like that don't happen every day.
Sanderson, 1st Mate: Ah, sometimes I think you're cracked worse than Fairbanks.


--Dick Wessel (as Sanderson, 1st Mate) in Unknown Island

Capt. Tarnowski: Say, where did they come from? I've never seen them in Singapore before.
Sanderson, 1st Mate: You wouldn't in the joints you hang out.


--Dick Wessel (as Sanderson, 1st Mate) in Unknown Island