Devlin: [bitterly, to Alicia] Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character.


--Cary Grant (as Devlin) in Notorious

Devlin: A man doesn't tell a woman what to do. She tells herself.


--Cary Grant (as Devlin) in Notorious

Devlin: I can't help recalling some of your remarks about being a new woman. Daisies and buttercups, wasn't it?
Alicia: You idiot! What are you sore about, you knew very well what I was doing!
Devlin: Did I?
Alicia: You could have stopped me with one word, but no, you wouldn't. You threw me at him!
Devlin: I threw you at nobody.
Alicia: Didn't you tell me what I had?
Devlin: A man doesn't tell a woman what to do; she tells herself. You almost had me believing in that little hokey-pokey miracle of yours, that a woman like you could change her spots.
Alicia: Oh, you're rotten.
Devlin: That's why I didn't try to stop you. The answer had to come from you.
Alicia: I see. Some kind of love test.
Devlin: That's right.


--Cary Grant (as Devlin) in Notorious

Mortimer Brewster: [to Mr. Gibbs] You... Get out of here! D'ya wanna be poisoned? D'ya wanna be murdered? D'ya wanna be killed?


--Cary Grant (as Mortimer Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster: [trying to make Jonathan leave] Now, Jonathon. Be a good fellow. Here's ten dollars. Go out and haunt yourself a hotel?


--Cary Grant (as Mortimer Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster: But there's a body in the window seat!
Aunt Abby: Yes, dear, we know.
Mortimer Brewster: You know?
Martha Brewster: Of course!
Aunt Abby: Yes, but it has nothing to do with Teddy. Now, Mortimer, you just forget about it. Forget you ever saw the gentleman.
Mortimer Brewster: Forget?
Aunt Abby: We never dreamed you'd peek.
Mortimer Brewster: What the...?


--Cary Grant (as Mortimer Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster: Certainly there are thirteen bodies in the cellar and there are hundreds more in the attic!


--Cary Grant (as Mortimer Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster: I saw a play last week, it had a character in it, reminded me of Jonathon.
Abby Brewster: Oh, really?
Mortimer Brewster: Yeah, a honey of a lunatic. One of those whodunits called "Murder Will Out".
Abby Brewster: Oh, dear!
Mortimer Brewster: Yeah, what a play. When the curtain goes up the first thing you see is a dead body. The next thing...
[opens the window seat and finds a dead body]


--Cary Grant (as Mortimer Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster: Look I probably should have told you this before but you see... well... insanity runs in my family... It practically gallops.


--Cary Grant (as Mortimer Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster: Mr. President, may I have the pleasure of presenting...
Teddy Brewster: Doctor Livingston?
Dr. Gilchrist: Livingstone?
Mortimer Brewster: Uh, well, that's what he presumes.


--Cary Grant (as Mortimer Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace