Linda Mason: What would you like?
Danny Reed: Orchids, the finest you've got.
Linda Mason: Corsage?
Danny Reed: No, no. A dozen, loose, looking like they don't care!


--Walter Abel (as Danny Reed) in Holiday Inn

Charles Gibson: 22 potential agents. Most of them have a foreign background. All of them can speak French. One of them can speak German.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: Mmmm-hmmm.
Charles Gibson: You got to find out who that is.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: All right.
Charles Gibson: That's not as easy as it sounds.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: Why?
Charles Gibson: Because one of the students in the group is a German agent.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: A German agent? Looks like you know.
Charles Gibson: Yeah.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: Man or woman?
Charles Gibson: When you find out, you tell me.


--Walter Abel (as Charles Gibson) in 13 Rue Madeleine

Danny Reed: How'd he get that far in five minutes?
Ted Hanover: The lady must have been willing.
Danny Reed: The world can't do this to us!


--Walter Abel (as Danny Reed) in Holiday Inn

Danny Reed: If I'm not the best manager in the business, I'll eat a garage mechanic's shirt!


--Walter Abel (as Danny Reed) in Holiday Inn

District Attorney: [after several witnesses had lied on the stand] I wonder if I haven't been calling the defense witnesses by mistake.


--Walter Abel (as District Attorney) in Fury

Harry Archer: Somehow, I just can't believe that I'm the father-in-law of that "Holy cow"!


--Walter Abel (as Harry Archer) in Kiss and Tell

Inspector Hammock: I'll be the doggonedest dog to end all doggoned dogs! Maybe I'm just dumb.


--Walter Abel (as Inspector Hammock) in Hold Back the Dawn

T.D. Shawnessy: War is the most monstrous of man's illusions. Any idea worth anything is worth not fighting for.


--Walter Abel (as T.D. Shawnessy) in Raintree County

John Wickliff Shawnessy: [People are gathering in the town center] What's going on here?
Ellen Shawnessy: You haven't heard? They've attacked Fort Sumter. It means war sure as anything.
T.D. Shawnessy: I'm not so sure. Now, say what you will, Americans will never fight each other. We'll settle our difficulties peacefully.


--Walter Abel (as T.D. Shawnessy) in Raintree County