- Victor Santini: You're in the wrong neighborhood, Mrs. Brown. You need a big shot lawyer and you need him quick.
- Mrs. Hattie Brown: And what do we do for money? Print it?
- Victor Santini: Nothing you can hock? Well, how much cash do you have on hand?
- Mrs. Hattie Brown: About eleven hundred dollars.
- Victor Santini: That might pay the stenography bill.
- Victor Santini: There's a steak on the grill for me, Liz. Bring it over to the table when its ready.
- Liz: All right, Vic.
- [Liz walks away and Vic slaps her behind]
- Liz: Oh!
- Mrs. Hattie Brown: The law says she's innocent - innocent until proven guilty!
- Victor Santini: Excuse me, that's the fine theory of it. But, the law is what I told you, Mrs. Brown. not what you see in TV shows.
- Victor Santini: Frankly, I'm prejudice against married women who go out and traffic - play around.
- Jo Morris: You don't sound very friendly.
- Victor Santini: We'll chum up another day.
- Lt. Mike Morris: Where do you two come off going and take the kid's part against me? For two cents, I'd go up and fan her behind!
- Jo Morris: Mike, I think you better go.
- Lt. Mike Morris: What?
- Jo Morris: I think you better go to work.
- Lt. Mike Morris: Oh, yeah. I know, what's your hurry. Here's your hat. Hello, goodbye!
- Mrs. Hattie Brown: Don't shake your head, Jo. I'm your mother, not your judge. You have a right to a little happiness!
- Larry Ellis: I've never seen you take three drinks before.
- Jo Morris: Maybe I have a few talents you don't know about.
- Jo Morris: Would you take care of me tonight if I had another drink or two?
- Larry Ellis: Yes.
- Jo Morris: Must we have them here?
- Larry Ellis: I wish I were a poet. I want to say something tender.
- Jo Morris: Don't. You'll make me cry.
- Victor Santini: How many times did you sleep with Ellis? Now, don't be shy. The questions I ask you in court will curl your hair.
- Jo Morris: Once. Just once.
- Victor Santini: That's the pathetic truth?
- Jo Morris: That's the truth.
- Lt. Mike Morris: You wearin' a girdle? You look as slim as an Italian pistol.
- Jo Morris: I never had any problem about hips.
- Lt. Mike Morris: I know, I know, I sometimes dish it out; but, you don't take things light enough. I mean, you don't think when I say I'll kick her in the slats, the kid, I really mean it?
- Jo Morris: What's important is whether Avis thinks you mean it.
- Lt. Mike Morris: It's nice havin' a head like you at home.
- Lt. Mike Morris: [after squeezing Jo's breast and she rejects his advances] What's your private name for me? Poison Ivy? Don't forget, kid, in my trade I can get it any place! They put out and I take!
- Lt. Mike Morris: A man likes to get a little credit in his own home. Don't that ever occur to ya? Even a dog wags his tail when you throw him a bone. Did you hear what I said? All you know is to take my paycheck when I bring it home.
- Jo Morris: I left the phone company job at $90 a week to marry you and I just as soon get it back.
- Lt. Mike Morris: That'll be the day. Over my dead body, that'll be the day.
- District Attorney Nordeau: The lady looks slick to me. Slick and cool!
- Phil Stanley: I'll make her hot.
- Phil Stanley: Anything yet on hotels? Motels?
- Detective Captain Kelly: No.
- Phil Stanley: We need real proof that Ellis worked at something more than just her tax figure.
- Victor Santini: What does that mean, "It sounded like she didn't mean it"?
- Lauber: Well, you know, like a typical wife. Maybe they had a fight. Flippant. Sarcastic. She didn't mean it.
- Phil Stanley: Knowing Ellis was waiting below, you went upstairs and stripped.
- Jo Morris: Yes, but, I didn't go...
- Phil Stanley: No, buts, ma'am.