Helena Domenico: I'll have you know my husband died happy.
Gino Monetti: Your husband was happy to die, which is a different thing.


--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in House of Strangers

John Parrish: My stock alone's worth more.
Lee Wilkison: We don't figure that way. We figure what it's worth to get you off the land without fights.


--Edward G. Robinson (as Lee Wilkison) in The Violent Men

Allen Parker: Then it's all settled? They won't prosecute me?
Victor Scott: No.
Allen Parker: You're not going to keep all of my $10,000?
Victor Scott: Your $10,000? You stole it; I earned it!
Allen Parker: But that's all I got. You wouldn't take everything I have, would you?
Victor Scott: You can get out of town and keep going before you lose more than money.


--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in Illegal

Barton Keyes: Eh? There it is, Walter. It's beginning to come apart at the seams already. Murder's never perfect. Always comes apart sooner or later, and when two people are involved it's usually sooner. Now we know the Dietrichson dame is in it *and* a somebody else. Pretty soon, we'll know who that somebody else is. He'll show. He's got to show. Sometime, somewhere, they've got to meet. Their emotions are all kicked up. Whether it's love or hate doesn't matter; they can't keep away from each other. They may think it's twice as safe because there's two of them,
Barton Keyes: [chuckles]
Barton Keyes: but it isn't twice as safe. It's ten times twice as dangerous. They've committed a *murder*! And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of the line and it's a one-way trip and the last stop is the cemetery. She put in her claim... I'm gonna throw it right back at her.
[Walter hands Keyes a light]
Barton Keyes: Let her sue us if she dares. I'll be ready for her *and* that somebody else. They'll be digging their own graves.


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

Barton Keyes: I picked you for the job, not because I think you're so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter, Walter... you're just a little taller.


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

Barton Keyes: Now look, Walter. A guy takes out an accident policy that's worth $100,000 if he's killed on the train. Then, two weeks later, he *is* killed on the train. And, not from the train accident, mind you, but falling off some silly observation car. You know what the mathematical probability of that is? One out of, oh, I don't know how many billions. And after that, the broken leg. No, it just, it just can't be the way it looks. Something has been worked on us!


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

Barton Keyes: Walter, you're all washed up.


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

Barton Keyes: Well, I get darn sick of tryin' to pick up after a gang of fast-talking salesmen dumb enough to sell life insurance to a guy who sleeps in the same bed with four rattlesnakes.


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

Barton Keyes: What's the matter? Dames chasing you again? Or still? Or is it none of my business?
Walter Neff: If I told you it was a customer, you'd...
Barton Keyes: "Margie"! I bet she drinks from the bottle.


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

Christopher Cross: Hey, did you read this?
Adele Cross: Read what?
Christopher Cross: This murder in Queens. A man killed his wife with the window weight, put her body in the trunk, shipped her to California. It says here...
Adele Cross: I've read the paper, thank you. He didn't get away with it, did he? He'll go to the chair, as he should.
Christopher Cross: Yeah, a man hasn't got a chance with these New York detectives.


--Edward G. Robinson (as ) in Scarlet Street