“I knew I'd find you two together. If I hadn't, Elsa, I might have gone on playing it your way. You didn't know that, but you did plan for me to follow you...I presume you think that if you murder me here, your sailor friend will get the blame and you'll be free to spend my money. Well, dear, you aren't the only one who wants me to die. Our good friend, the District Attorney, is just itching to open a letter that I left with him. The letter tells all about you, lover. So you'd be foolish to fire that gun. With these mirrors, it's difficult to tell. You are aiming at me, aren't you? I'm aiming at you, lover. Of course, killing you is killing myself. It's the same thing. But you know, I'm pretty tired of both of us.”
“I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke.”
The Lady from Shanghai
“New York is not as big a city as it pretends to be.”
The Lady from Shanghai
“When I start out to make a fool of myself, there's very little can stop me. If I'd known where it would end, I'd never let anything start, if I'd been in my right mind, that is. But once I'd seen her,...”
The Lady from Shanghai
“That's how I found her, and from that moment on, I did not use my head very much, except to be thinking of her.”
The Lady from Shanghai
“Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.”
The Lady from Shanghai