“- Leslie Crosbie: You won't have to show Bob the letter, will you?
- Howard Joyce: I'll do everything possible to prevent him from seeing it. He'll be an important witness and he should be as firmly convinced of your innocence as he is now.”

Bette Davis - Leslie Crosbie
James Stephenson - Howard Joyce

- Michael "Mike" Ward: What if she's right - he didn't do it, and they give him the chair?
- Martin: Suppose they do? What difference does it make? There's too many people in the world anyway.
John McGuire - Michael "Mike" Ward
Cliff Clark - Martin

“I don't quite know how to say it. That hot July afternoon, it was like kissing fresh snow. I could feel her hand trembling on my shoulder. From the church behind us, came the breathe of innocence.”
Charles Boyer - Georges Iscovescu

“- Brigid O'Shaughnessy: I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.
- Sam Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.”
Mary Astor - Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“Aunt Cassie couldn't be the killer, because she's not strong enough to lug around a couple of grown men like a set of Indian clubs.”
Wallace Ford - Bob White