"It is the greatest mystery of all because no human being will ever solve it. It is the highest suspense because no man can bear it. It is the greatest fear because it is the ancient fear of the unknown. It is a warning foretold for thousands of years. It is our final warning. It is The Omen."

"It is too much to be an accident, too strange to be a coincidence, too frightening to be ignored."

"If I were crazy, I'd be a much better designer."

"As you know, I am Cyrus West. Now, first of all, let me tell you that you're all a bunch of bastards."

"Where was ya, Wang? We was worried."

"Richard Narita — Willie Wang"

"James Cromwell — Marcel"

"Estelle Winwood — Miss Withers"

"Nancy Walker — Yetta"

"Eileen Brennan — Tess Skeffington"

"Maggie Smith — Mrs. Dora Charleston"

"Peter Sellers — Inspector Sidney Wang"

"David Niven — Dick Charleston"

"Elsa Lanchester — Miss Jessica Marbles"

"Alec Guinness — Jamesir Bensonmum (the butler)"

"Peter Falk — Sam Diamond"

"James Coco — Inspector Milo Perrier"

"Truman Capote — Lionel Twain"

"You are cordially invited to dinner…and a murder!"

"You've all been so clever for so long you've forgotten to be humble. You tricked and fooled your readers for years. You've tortured us all with surprise endings that make no sense. You've introduced characters in the last five pages who were never in the book before! You withheld clues and information that made it impossible for us to guess who did it! But now, the tables are turned. Millions of angry mystery readers are now getting their revenge. When the world learns how I've outsmarted you, they'll be selling your $1.95 books for $.12!"

"I want you to know, Dickie darling, that if you're the murderer, I'll still love you. I don't think it would be right for us to make love, but I'd still love you."

"I don't understand. Why would anybody want to steal a dead, naked body? (after she is told in a whisper:) Oh. That's tacky."

"Ten people for dinner, and I'm serving them hot nothing! You can't get good help today."

"The motive is simple: ego. If we were not to solve this crime, he would indeed be named the world's foremost detective. And with an ego like his, the fact that he had to die for it would be a small price to pay."

"My motive is unimportant—let's just say I hated him enough to kill him."

"That can only mean one thing—and I don't know what it is!"

"All right, we'll take turns. You look over the first dead, naked body that we find and I'll look over the second."

"Why don't you ask the moose on the wall? He's been watching us since we came in."

"Please, excuse Sam. He was shot in the head last week. He shouldn't even be out of the hospital."

"There's nothing on him until '46, when he was picked up in El Paso, Texas for trying to smuggle a truckload of rich, white Americans across the border into Mexico to pick melons. He was sent to the Dallas state hospital for mental observation."

"As a man you are barely passable, but as a woman you are a dog."

"You look taller to me. Why is that?"

"I am not a Frenchie, I'm a Belgie!"