Shelby Carpenter: I can afford a blemish on my character, but not on my clothes.
Mark MacPherson: On Saturday when our men went to the hotel to tell you that Laura Hunt was dead you seemed sincerely shocked.
Shelby Carpenter: I was. I hadn't expected that mistake.
Mark MacPherson: But you had your alibi ready no matter who was dead.
Shelby Carpenter: For the last time, Louise, will you marry me?
Louise, Ann's Cook: No, but I cooked some chicken liver for you.
Don Nicholas Medina: Do you know where you are, Bartolome? I'll tell you where you are. You are about to enter Hell, Bartolome, hell... The netherworld.The infernal region, The Abode of the Damned... The place of torment. Pandemonium. Abbadon. Tophet. Gehenna. Naraka. THE PIT... And the pendulum.
Don Nicholas Medina: You will die in agony. Die.
Isabel Stevens Chapin: There's a word for you.
Dr. Warren Chapin: There are several for you.
Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins: You gave me the idea, doc.
Dr. Warren Chapin: Just because poisons exist, is no reason to use them.
Dr. Warren Chapin: Either you give Lucy half of all the money you have and leave her alone, or you commit suicide right now.
Isabel Stevens Chapin: Suicide? You mean murder.
Dr. Warren Chapin: When I finish rearranging things, it'll look like suicide.
Isabel Stevens Chapin: The only way Dave Morris will marry my sister is over my dead body.
Dr. Warren Chapin: Unconventional but not impossible.
David Morris: You say get a cat, get a cat, you say get a dog, I got a dog.
Dr. Warren Chapin: We don't need him, come on I want to show you something.
David Morris: Bet you in a fair fight that cat could lick this dog.
Dr. Warren Chapin: Ladies and gentlemen, just a word of warning. If any of you are not convinced that you have a tingler of your own, the next time you're frightened in the dark... don't scream.
Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins: It isn't as though I'd taken out a pistol and shot her or taken a knife and stabbed her, is it doc?
Dr. Warren Chapin: If you kill anybody deliberately, it's murder. No matter how you do it.
Dr. Warren Chapin: I came because I was a bit worried about your wife, a shock like that can have bad after effects you know.
Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins: You know I've been worried about her too, she hasn't eaten hardly a thing and she can't sleep. Ever since she saw that blood, she just roams around the theater all night.
Dr. Warren Chapin: Ladies and gentlemen, please do not panic! But scream! Scream for your lives.
Matthew Hopkins: I will find out the truth for you, have no fear.
Matthew Hopkins: Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.
Matthew Hopkins: By the way, you know what they call me now?
John Stearne: What?
Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General.
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