- Willard Gates: Raven... how do you feel when you're doing...
- [indicates murder headlines]
- Willard Gates: this?
- Philip Raven: I feel fine.
- Philip Raven: [Ellen is wrapping a handkerchief around Raven's wrist] That's enough.
- Ellen Graham: You're a funny guy. You like my doing that, but you won't admit it.
- Philip Raven: That's sucker talk.
- [referring to Ellen who is bound, gagged and unconscious]
- Tommy: I never even scratched her. We're a cinch. In a couple of hours, the bridge over the reservoir will be deserted. Now look...
- Willard Gates: Don't tell me! I don't what to know anything about it.
- Tommy: This is a work of art. The ropes come off. I tie sash weights to her ankles with soft catgut.
- Willard Gates: Please. That's a horrible word.
- Tommy: Now get the angle on this! She disappears - two weeks, maybe three, then up she pops. None of this stuff on her anymore. No marks - a suicide. Now isn't that beautiful?
- Willard Gates: It's loathsome. Be sure no one sees you.
- [discussing Raven's fee for murdering the blackmailer, Albert Baker]
- Willard Gates: Direct from the bank as I promised. Oh, I see your point, of course. If the bills were bad, you couldn't very well complain to the police, could you?
- Philip Raven: I'm my own police.
- Philip Raven: You are trying to make me go soft. Well, you can save it. I don't go soft for anybody.
- Philip Raven: So, you're a copper's girl.
- Ellen Graham: How do you know that?
- Philip Raven: He was here looking for you, and he'd better stay away from me.
- [last lines]
- Philip Raven: You didn't tell the cops, did ya?
- [Ellen shakes her head]
- Philip Raven: Did I do all right for you?
- [Ellen nods as Raven dies]
- Ellen Graham: Oh, Michael, my darling. Hold me.
- Michael Crane: [after Willard Gates leaves having threatened to "go higher up" if Crane's actions weren't quick enough] Go milk a duck.
- Policeman: [Commenting on the reward Crane's company has offered] Five thousand dollars! Mmmm. I could buy myself a farm, get a couple of chickens, and lay my own eggs.
- Michael Crane: [Smiling] That's a neat trick if you can do it.
- Ellen Graham: Do senators usually have conferences in automobiles?
- Sen. Burnett: Hotel rooms have walls, and walls sometimes have dictaphones