"No good deed goes unpunished...."- Don't know, but they were smart. Here is one from Lowell on "Wings"........,"If you drink milk from a coffee cup, is it still a coffee cup?"
"You wanna know how you do it? Here's how: they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way."
Chicago cop Jim Malone to Treasury agent Eliot Ness in "The Untouchables"
Angel and the Badman: 'And whom might you be when you're at home?'
Tall in the Saddle: Old biddy: 'I saw you, you hit that poor man!' Wayne; 'Yes ma'am just as hard as I could.'
Same movie: Gabby Hayes 'Boy Howdy has somebody come to town!'