- Inspector Ferris: Don't you eat anything but dog food?
- Eleanor Johnson: He's not particular, and I'm lazy, so we eat out.
- Eleanor Johnson: [concerned about her husband's heart condition, which she knew nothing about] Is his heart really that bad, doctor?
- Dr. Hohler: Frank's condition isn't any worse than tons of men that strain their hearts running in track meets in the misguided belief that they were building up their bodies.
- Inspector Ferris: [figuring on using the Johnson's dog, Rembrandt, to help locate Frank at the amusement park] We're going to the beach. Come on, Rembrandt. What my eyes missed, your nose will smell.
- Eleanor Johnson: [in the dark shadows of a roller coaster on the deserted beach at night] I don't like this place.
- Dan Legget: It's a good spot. I used to come here with my girl when I was a kid. It's more frightening than romantic. It's the way love is when you're young... life is when you're older.
- Dr. Hohler: For the past year your husband has had hypertension that complicates matters.
- Eleanor Johnson: Hypertension? What causes that?
- Dr. Hohler: Well, I'm not sure. My guess is overwork, unhappiness, anxiety. But you know more about it than I do.
- Eleanor Johnson: Why should I?
- Dr. Hohler: But naturally, you must know about his troubles. I'm only his doctor,
- Eleanor Johnson: Oh, yes, I'm that bitter, selfish, vicious wife. The cause of his unhappiness. The cause of his failure. Is that what he told you? Is that what he tells everyone?
- Dr. Hohler: Frank didn't discuss his private life with me, nor do I care to hear it from you. I shall explain his condition to you, and that's all.
- Blonde: [drunk and sitting on a bar stool] Say, why don't you wear a hat?
- Eleanor Johnson: I look funny in a hat.
- Blonde: You know... you're right.
- Dan Legget: Where's your husband, Mrs. Johnson?
- Eleanor Johnson: I don't know.
- Dan Legget: Did he see the killer?
- Eleanor Johnson: I don't know.
- Dan Legget: Shall we dance?
- Eleanor Johnson: Why don't you drop dead?
- Inspector Ferris: [after interviewing Eleanor for the first time] No wonder the world's full of bachelors.
- Eleanor Johnson: Why don't you get lost?
- Dan Legget: Now then, how 'bout the story?
- Eleanor Johnson: You'll get the story from my husband when he's safe and sound in jail.
- Dan Legget: Oh, um, I've got a deal for you. You find your husband with my help, give me an exclusive for 24 hours, and I get my paper to pay you for it.
- Eleanor Johnson: Trying to buy me so soon?
- Dan Legget: First, I'm gonna to try to buy you. And if I can't, I'm gonna try to win you.
- Eleanor Johnson: Isn't that the reverse of the usual procedure?
- Dan Legget: I'm a perverse fellow. On second thought, Mrs. J., I find you very attractive. I may try and win you right off.
- Eleanor Johnson: No thanks. I'd rather be bought.
- Dan Legget: Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, very mercenary. All to the good, though. I like mercenary women.
- Dan Legget: Why don't you be nice to me, Mrs. J.? Who knows? I might even be able to help you. I'm not a bad guy when you get to know me. A little obnoxious, perhaps, but pleasant.
- Dan Legget: Why did you come here, Mrs. Johnson? Or shouldn't I ask?
- Eleanor Johnson: Because I like it here.
- Dan Legget: You didn't by any chance come here to meet, say, your husband, did you? Or is that a far-fetched supposition? Supposition? I'd better stop using those four-syllable words: I won't be working for 'The Graphic' anymore
- [referring to the tabloid newspaper he says he writes for]
- Dan Legget: .
- Detective Shaw: Every man between the ages of 35 and 40 who is out tonight is wearing a trenchcoat and a snap-brim felt - all of them five foot eleven, weighing a hundred and seventy, and all of 'em scared to answer questions.
- Eleanor Johnson: The domestic situtation in this town must be terrible.