"[dying] A man... a statesman... is to be killed... assassinated in London. Soon... very soon. Tell them in London... tell them to try Ambrose Chapel..."

"[to Louis] If you ever get hungry, our garden back home is full of snails. We tried everything to get rid of them. We never thought of a Frenchman!"

"Sorry we were gone so long, but we had to pick up Hank!"

"[to Drayton] You have muddled everything from the start, taking that child with you from Marrakesh. Don't you realize that Americans dislike having their children stolen?"

"A little knowledge can be a deadly thing!"

"Ted de Corsia - Bettini"

"John Hoyt - Nils Dreyer"

"Jay Adler - Sam Hill"

"Helen Walker - Alicia Brown"

"I'm gonna give you a break. I'm gonna fix it, so you don't hear the bullets. [Removes McClure's hearing aid]"

"Earl Holliman - Mingo"

"Lee Van Cleef - Fante"

"Robert Middleton - Police Capt. Peterson"

"So you lost. Next time you'll win. I'll show you how. Take a look at Joe McClure here. He used to be my boss, now I'm his. What's the difference between me and him? We breathe the same air, sleep in the same hotel. He used to own it! [yelling into McClure's sound magnifier in his ear] Now it belongs to me. We eat the same steaks, drink the same bourbon. Look, same manicure. [lifting and pointing at McClure's hand] Same cufflinks. But there's only one difference. We don't get the same girls. Why? Because women know the difference. They got instinct. First is first, and second is nobody."

"Jean Wallace - Susan Lowell"

"Brian Donlevy - Joe McClure"

"Richard Conte - Mr. Brown"

"Cornel Wilde - Police Lt. Leonard Diamond"

"I know his name. The name of a man who will pick up a phone and call Chicago and New Orleans and say "Hey Bill, Joe is coming down for the weekend. Advance him fifty thousand," and he hangs up the phone and the money's advanced, protection money. A new all night bar opens, with gambling outside city limits. A bunch of high school kids come in for a good time. They get loaded, they get irresponsible, they lose their shirts. Then they get a gun, cause they're worried, they want to make up their losses. And a filling station attendant is dead with a bullet in his liver. I have to see four kids on trial for first degree murder. Look at it. First degree murder, because a certain Mr. Brown picked up a phone."

"Alicia Brown: I'd rather be insane and alive, than sane... and dead."

"Police Capt. Peterson: You're a cop, Leonard. There's 17,000 laws on the books to be enforced. You haven't got time to reform wayward girls. She's been with Brown three and a half years. That's a lot of days... and nights."

"A woman doesn't care how a guy makes a living, just how he makes love."

"People tell me all sorts of things. I don't listen."

"If they take you to police headquarters, shoot yourself in the head. It'll make everything a lot simpler."

"Helene Stanton - Rita"

"Ivan Triesault - Eric Mathis"

"The important drinking hasn't started yet."

"I hate low, under-handed people like policemen, pussy-footing after you. Of course, I'm a marked woman, you know? I'm liable to blow up the Panama Canal any minute now."

"I want to make it 80 and wipe that grin off your face. I don't like gentlemen who grin at me."

"[to Devlin] You double-crossing buzzard - you're a cop!"

"[to Devlin] Get out of my car, federal cop! Crashing my party, just like that buzzard with the glasses!"

"[to Devlin] Go away and leave me alone. I have my own life to lead. Good times. That's what I want, and laughs with people I like. And no underhanded cops who want to put me up in a shooting gallery, but people of my own kind, who treat me right and like me and understand me."

"I don't know why I should feel so bad. When he told me a few years ago what he was, everything went to pot. I didn't care what happened to me. Now I remember how nice he once was. How nice we both were, very nice. It's a very curious feeling as if something had happened to me and not to him. You see, I don't have to hate him anymore or myself."