Waldo Lydecker: [Scene deleted from theater version and restored in 1990] She was quick to seize upon anything that would improve her mind or her appearance. Laura had innate breeding, but she deferred to my judgment and taste. I selected a more attr...
[last lines] Waldo Lydecker: Goodbye, Laura. Waldo Lydecker: [narrating off screen] Goodbye, my love.
Mark McPherson: [about the list of suspects] You know you are on the list too. Waldo Lydecker: Good. It would insult me to be overlooked.
Waldo Lydecker: Have you ever been in love? Mark McPherson: A doll in Washington Heights once got a fox fur outta me.
Mark MacPherson: On Saturday when our men went to the hotel to tell you that Laura Hunt was dead you seemed sincerely shocked. Shelby Carpenter: I was. I hadn't expected that mistake. Mark MacPherson: But you had your alibi ready no matter who was de...
Shelby Carpenter: For the last time, Louise, will you marry me? Louise, Ann's Cook: No, but I cooked some chicken liver for you.
Waldo Lydecker: If you come a little bit closer, my boy, I can just crack your skull with my walking stick.
Waldo Lydecker: Murder is my favorite crime.
Waldo Lydecker: I just dropped in to inquire about the state of your health? Insipid, I hope.
Waldo Lydecker: Let's not be psychiatric. But in a word, yes.
Mark McPherson: Nice little place you have here, Mr. Lydecker. Waldo Lydecker: It's lavish, but I call it home.
Laura Hunt: [Explaining why she broke a promise] You forced me to give you my word. I never have been and I never will be bound by anything I don't do of my own free will.
Mark McPherson: I suspect nobody and everybody. I am strictly trying to get at the truth.
Bessie Clary: I ain't afraid of cops. I was brought up to spit whenever I saw one. Mark McPherson: OK, go ahead and spit if that'll make you feel better.
Laura Hunt: By stooping so low you only degrade yourself.
