- Jodie Dallas: Mom, last night he told me that sometimes he thinks he's invisible.
- Mary Campbell: He was joking with you. Invisible!
- Jodie Dallas: He was serious, Mom! He told me that sometimes he can walk through a room and nobody sees him. He says it helps him greatly with his detective work!
- Mr. Franklin: Mr. Tate, let me put this as candidly as possible. Now, your wife, as we know, has the motive. The murder weapons were found in her room, with her fingerprints all over them, and she had no alibi for that night. Plus which, the judge, as you can see from the astronomical bail that he has set, hates rich people.
- Chester Tate: So, what you're saying is it'll be a difficult case?
- Mr. Franklin: Mr. Tate... Clarence Darrow in his prime, arguing this case against a mute prosecutor with a jury of Mrs. Tate's relatives, with you sitting as the judge, could not possibly hope to win!
- Ingrid Swenson: [beholding Burt, covered in soot from an explosion] This is your husband? Interesting man. Are you a chimney sveep?
- Jodie Dallas: No, he's Al Jolson.
- Mary Campbell: I want you to leave - now!
- Ingrid Swenson: I would be delighted, But I will be back! I am not finished with this family. I won't rest until I've destroyed every last one of you! Ha!
- Chester Tate: Jessica, you won't hang.
- Jessica Tate: Well, if I do, and they do make a movie of it, Chester, promise me that you will try to retain some control because I have a feeling, I mean an awful feeling, they're thinking of having Shelley Winters play me!
- Charles Lefkowitz: [Discussing Danny] He's a nice boy. It's too bad. Wait'll he finds out the favor is he has to marry my daughter. He'd be better off dead!
- Charles Lefkowitz: [looking in paper bag] Yuck! What is that, is that a finger? Tell Gomez, I know him 20 years - he kills a man, I take his word for it!