- Dwight Wilson: [to Patricia] Say, baby, I'm for yuh. My face hasn't been so red since I went to my first burlesque show.
- Police Chief John F. O'Hara: [referring to Patricia] I've never seen a look like that on the face of a living woman before.
- Police Chief John F. O'Hara: Ah, that Valerie was delirious!
- Dr. Paul Cornelius: It wouldn't be the first time a million dollars made a man delirious
- Horace Merrick: A man might make many compromises with his integrity for... ah... oh... say... a half million dollars.
- Mattie: [upon seeing Merrick's dead body] There will always be death when men seek to take what ain't theirs.
- Police Chief John F. O'Hara: Now, what we're here for, Mattie, is for you to show us exactly what happened on the night Mrs. Marble died.
- Mattie: [referring, suspiciously, to Patricia] What's she here for?
- Police Chief John F. O'Hara: Well, the young lady is a, uh.. medium. She's going to try to tell us who it was that Mrs. Marble saw up there in the dark.
- Mattie: [sternly] I don't hold with having no traffic with spirits in this house.
- Police Chief John F. O'Hara: Well, what you hold with doesn't concern us in the least. Now, pick up that lamp and bring it over here.