Frances Stevens: Even in this light, I can tell where your eyes are looking. Look John, hold them--diamonds--the only thing in the... world you can't resist. Then tell me you don't know what I'm talking about. Ever had a better offer in your whole life, one with everything? John Robie: I've never had a crazier one. Frances Stevens: Just as long as you're satisfied. John Robie: You know as well as I do, this necklace is imitation. Frances Stevens: Well, I'm not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Frances Stevens: Mother, this is why I've had to spend half my life running around the world after you--to keep men like this away... from you. Mrs. Stevens: Well after this, let me run my own interference. It looks like the blockers are having all the fun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and... they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he... didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lisa Fremont: Surprise is the most important element of attack. And besides, you're not up on your private eye literature. When th...ey're in trouble it's always their girl Friday who gets them out of it. L.B. Jeffries: Well, is she the girl who saves him from the clutches of the seductive show girls and the over passionate daughters of the rich? Lisa Fremont: The same. L.B. Jeffries: That's the one, huh? But he never ends up marrying her, does he? That's strange.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years befo...re you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in t...he old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »