Al Kruger: Not bad for one week's take on pinball games.
Johnny Blake: I wouldn't cry about it.


--Edward G. Robinson (as Johnny Blake) in Bullets or Ballots

Al Kruger: Oh, we don't believe in letting the bank handle our records.
Johnny Blake: Yeah, I noticed that.


--Edward G. Robinson (as Johnny Blake) in Bullets or Ballots

Lilia: Dathan, if you fear God, let me go.
Dathan: I am here, girl, because I would put no fear in a desert god and his mud-pit prophet. I am here because I bowed lower than my brothers before the Egyptians. Now the Egyptians bow low before me. Joshua wanted you. Baka wanted you. But you belong to me, a gift from Rameses.
Lilia: I will bow before you, Dathan. I will work my hands raw for you. But please do not shame me before my Lord.
Dathan: Your lord is the govenor of Goshen.
Lilia: What difference to my shame?
Dathan: No difference to you, my dove of Cannan, but to a condemned slave like Joshua it could mean the difference between death on the spikes and life in the copper mines of Sinai. What would you do to influence his excellency's clemency?
Lilia: [sobbing] Anything, Dathan, anything.
Dathan: Joshua will always be grateful to you.


--Edward G. Robinson (as Dathan) in The Ten Commandments

Meg Mogan: Then you did kill her?
Pete Morgan: No, it was an accident, I was just trying to keep her quiet.


--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in The Red House

Irene Graham: Who'll give me a half a dollar for my hand?
Nick 'The Barber' Venizelos: Uh, I wouldn't give you a nickel for your whole body.


--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in Smart Money

[after Meineke's body is dug up]
Mr. Potter: 'Course, he's changed some. Being buried in the earth does that.


--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in The Stranger

[Norton, Keyes's boss, has just tried, unsuccessfully, to convince a client that her husband's death was a suicide]
Barton Keyes: You know, you, uh, oughta take a look at the statistics on suicide some time. You might learn a little something about the insurance business.
Edward S. Norton: Mister Keyes, I was RAISED in the insurance business.
Barton Keyes: Yeah, in the front office. Come now, you've never read an actuarial table in your life, have you? Why they've got ten volumes on suicide alone. Suicide by race, by color, by occupation, by sex, by seasons of the year, by time of day. Suicide, how committed: by poison, by firearms, by drowning, by leaps. Suicide by poison, subdivided by *types* of poison, such as corrosive, irritant, systemic, gaseous, narcotic, alkaloid, protein, and so forth; suicide by leaps, subdivided by leaps from high places, under the wheels of trains, under the wheels of trucks, under the feet of horses, from *steamboats*. But, Mr. Norton, of all the cases on record, there's not one single case of suicide by leap from the rear end of a moving train. And you know how fast that train was going at the point where the body was found? Fifteen miles an hour. Now how can anybody jump off a slow-moving train like that with any kind of expectation that he would kill himself? No. No soap, Mr. Norton. We're sunk, and we'll have to pay through the nose, and you know it.


--Edward G. Robinson (as Barton Keyes) in Double Indemnity

Cabbie: You know sir, I haven't gotten a dime tip since 1932. I'd love to frame it along with a picture of the sport that gave it to me.
Mario Manetta: You got so much money you don't need a dime??? Well, I need a dime and I got more money than you!


--Edward G. Robinson (as Mario Manetta) in A Hole in the Head

Tony Manetta: You're my brother!
Mario Manetta: No more! I'm not your brother!
Sophie Manetta: Mario!
Mario Manetta: You want him? Take him! From now on SHE's your brother!


--Edward G. Robinson (as Mario Manetta) in A Hole in the Head

Tony Manetta: So help me, I should drop dead right here!
Mario Manetta: If he dropped dead all the time he was supposed to drop dead, I'd go into the cemetery business.


--Edward G. Robinson (as Mario Manetta) in A Hole in the Head