“- Sherlock Holmes: Have the newspapers got wind of it yet?
- Constable Clark: Well, that's what we're trying to avoid, sir.
- Sherlock Holmes: Certainly. What's the major concern?
- Constable Clark: Panic. Sheer bloody panic, sir.”

Robert Downey Jr. - Sherlock Holmes
William Houston - Constable Clark

- Ed (editor): McCoy! Billy, kill that story about the Republican Convention in Chicago and take this down: "The Ringo Kid was killed on Main Street in Lordsburg tonight. And among the additional dead were...". Leave that blank for a spell.
- McCoy (typesetter): I didn't hear any shooting, Ed.
- Ed (editor): You will, Billy, you will.
Robert Homans - Ed (editor)

“I made a great reporter out of you, Hildy. But you won't be half as good on any other paper and you know it. We're a team. That's what we are. You need me and I need you, and the paper needs both of us.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Mollie Malloy: Aren't they inhuman?
- Hildy Johnson: I know. They're newspapermen.
- Mollie Malloy: All they've been doing is lying. All they've been doing is writing lies. Why won't they listen to me?”
Helen Mack - Mollie Malloy
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“I'm getting married, Walter, and I'm also getting as far away from the newspaper business as I can get.”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson