"Look at me, a dream of twenty years come true. More happiness than any man deserves, that chair. But now there's something Else, Nora: My friends. I want to see them as happy as I am. Nothing less will do. And Leopold, what a fine fellow - and I've been thinking, Nora, that if someone were to take his hand and say "Leopold, my wreckless friend, here's love and companionship, forever." Well, some day that man would... You see what I mean, Nora?"

"This is your law and your finest possession - it makes you free men in a free country. Why have you come here to destroy it? If you know what's good for you, take those weapons home and burn them! And then think... think of this country and of the law that makes it what it is. Think of a world crying for this very law! And maybe you'll understand why you ought to guard it. Why the law has got to be the personal concern of every citizen. To uphold it for your neighbor as well as yourself. Violence against it is one mistake. Another mistake is for any man to look upon the law as just a set of principles. And just so much language printed on fine, heavy paper. Something he recites and then leans back and takes it for granted that justice is automatically being done. Both kinds of men are equally wrong! The law must be engraved in our hearts and practiced every minute to the letter and spirit. It can't even exist unless we're willing to go down into the dust and blood and fight a battle every day of our lives to preserve it. For our neighbor as well as ourself."

"Listen, I can't hang around here even if I wanted to. Lightcap's ordered me out 50 times since last night. I'm here now only by the grace of being in his pajamas. One minute I'm out of these and I'm out on my ear!"

"I don't approve of, but I like people who think in terms of ideal conditions. They're the dreamers, poets, tragic figures in this world, but interesting."

"Well, it's a form of self-expression. Some people write books. Some people write music. I make speeches on street corners."

"What is the law? It's a gun pointed at somebody's head. All depends upon which end of the gun you stand, whether the law is just or not."

"Stop saying "Leopold" like that, tenderly. It sounds funny. You can't do it with a name like Leopold."

"Don Beddoe - Police Chief"

"Tom Tyler - Clyde Bracken"

"Business is a ruthless business, my dear."

"[to the court, after being found guilty of murder] I shall see you ALL soon - very soon."

"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."

"Wars, conflict - it's all business. One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow!"

"Robert Lewis - Maurice Bottello"

"Mady Correll - Mona, wife of Verdoux"

"William Frawley - Jean La Salle"

"Eula Morgan - Phoebe Couvais"

"Almira Sessions - Lena Couvais"

"Virginia Brissac - Carlotta Couvais"

"Edwin Mills - Jean Couvais"

"Irving Bacon - Pierre Couvais"

"Barbara Slater - the flower seller"

"Marilyn Nash - The Girl"

"Margaret Hoffman - Lydia Floray"

"Isobel Elsom - Marie Grosnay"

"Martha Raye - Annabella Bonheur"

"Charlie Chaplin - Henri Verdoux"

"Chaplin's Bluebeard Comedy is a Killer!"

"Hysterical laughter! Haunting romance! Shocking drama!"

"New hat. new coat, new pants, new shoes, new laughs, but the same great Charles Chaplin!"

"A comedy of murders. The story of a modern French Bluebeard!"

"A Comedy of Murders."

"It's a blundering world and a very sad one, yet kindness can make it beautiful."

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles."

"[about TV hell] Screw up in here, and you're dead meat."

"You're about to experience the wildest day you ever sat through. Bet your remote control on it."

"What could be worse than no television for a week? Try Hellevision for 24 hours."

"Something weird is on the air."

"Most people would love to get into television. Helen and Roy Knable are on borrowed time to get out of it...before they're cancelled for good."

"The Knables have signed up for a cable system that's out of this world...literally."

"The devil has come for your soul...before a live studio audience."

"A comedy-adventure from the other side of the screen."