"I am sensible. I am calm. I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!"

"All that Cain did to Abel was murder him."

"I found my brother's body at the bottom there, where they had thrown it away on the rocks... by the river... like an old dirty rag nobody wants. He was dead - and I felt I had killed him. I turned back to give myself up to Hall; because if a man's life can be lived so long and come out this way - like rubbish - then something was horrible and had to be ended one way or another... and I decided to help."

"A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said."

"This is Wall Street... and today was important because tomorrow - July Fourth - I intended to make my first million dollars. An exciting day in any man's life. Temporarily, the enterprise was slightly illegal. You see I was the lawyer for the numbers racket."

"Esther Howard - Cleo"

"Lester Allen - Tony"

"Stephen Barclay - Eddie Wheeler"

"Dan Duryea - Al Wallace"

"Mary Beth Hughes - Connie Wallace"

"[Before strangling her] That was your curtain speech, Connie."

"John Payne - Joe Rolfe/Peter Harris"

"Every city wears a mask! This is the picture that goes behind that mask to bare the bullet-scarred face of a brutal underworld!"

"Exploding! Like a gun in your face!"

"It don't take no big thinking to figure a couple of guys like us ain't in this bananaville on a vacation!"

"What's waiting for you, Harris? The chair, the gas chamber, or just a rope?"

"What makes a two-bit heel like you think a heater would give him an edge over me?"

"That was a sucker move, burning down your boss. You had him all wrong. He never crossed you."

"I know a sure cure for a nosebleed: a cold knife in the middle of the back."

"Carleton Young - Martin"

"Howard Negley - Andrews"

"Mario Siletti - Tomaso"

"Dona Drake - Teresa"

"Jack Elam - Pete Harris aka Johnson"

"Lee Van Cleef - Tony Romano"

"Neville Brand - Boyd Kane"

"Preston Foster - Tim Foster"

"Coleen Gray - Helen Foster aka Pumpkin"

"[to Powell] I got tired of seein' children roamin' the woodlands without food. Children roamin' the highways in this here Depression. Children sleepin' in old abandoned car bodies and junk heaps. And I promised myself I'd never see the day when my young-uns would want."

"The rock in the smokehouse, no, the bricks in the grape arbor, no, no, they'll dig for it. Sure. That's the place."

"[to Powell] It ain't in the river, is it, Harry?...Ben never told you he throw'd it in the river, did he?...The children know where it's hid. John knows. Is that it, Harry? Then, it's still here amongst us, taintin' us. You must have known about it all along, Harry? But that ain't the reason why you married me. I know that much...He made you marry me, so you could show me the Way and the Life and the salvation for my soul. Ain't that so, Harry? So you might say that it was the money that brung us together. The rest of it don't matter."

"John, you always make up that lie. There is no money. Why can't you get that through your head?"

"You have all sinned. Which one of you can say, as I can say, that you drove a good man to murder because I kept a-houndin' him, for perfume, and clothes, and face paint? And he slew two human beings. And he come to me, and he said, 'Take this money, and buy yourself the clothes! And the paint!'...But brother-n, brother-n, oh that's where the Lord stepped in, that's where the Lord stepped in...He said, the Lord, to that man, 'You take that money, and you throw it in the river!'"

"I feel clean! My whole body is a'quiver with cleanness!"

"Lord, save little children. You'd think the world would be ashamed to name such a day as Christmas for one of them and then go on in the same old way. My soul is humble when I see the way little ones accept their lot. Lord, save little children. The wind blows and the rain's a-cold. Yet they abide...They abide and they endure."

"[about John's present to her of an apple] That's the richest gift a body could have."

"You know, when you're little, you have more endurance than God is ever to grant you again. Children are man at his strongest. They abide."