- Richie Ashmond: We're two of a kind, Morrison. We both like money, we both want to provide for our families, and we both want to seem respectable. That doesn't mean that we are respectable, but what difference does it make as long as we seem to be, hmm?
- [discussing his wife's knowledge of his infidelity]
- Dolores Wells: I'll tell her. I swear I'll tell her!
- Richie Ashmond: She knows.
- Dolores Wells: What?
- Richie Ashmond: She knows.
- Dolores Wells: You told her?
- Richie Ashmond: She just knows.
- Dolores Wells: But how?
- Richie Ashmond: You wouldn't understand. You wouldn't understand because... it's something a man and his wife never talk about. I trust her and I respect her - the only thing that went wrong between us is I stopped loving her. It wasn't her fault; it wasn't mine - it just happened.
- Dolores Wells: But what about me?
- Richie Ashmond: What about you?
- Dolores Wells: Could you do without me?
- Richie Ashmond: Let's just say I couldn't do without someone *like* you. Good night.
- Matt Gower: If Lally calls back tell him I'm playing a long shot. That's pretty hard to do when you're not a gambling man.
- Matt Gower: Why didn't you shoot?
- Richie Ashmond: I didn't like the odds. I'm used to laying them, not taking them. I got a better chance in court.
- Richie Ashmond: It was you, Anna.
- Anna Ashmond: Yes. You see, Richard, the one thing a pitiful woman can't take is pity.