“I'd rather face a tiger any day than the sort of things the critics said about your last book.”

Rosalind Russell - Mrs. Howard Fowler - Sylvia

“Better death... than a life like this.”
Béla Lugosi - Ygor

“Do you think that we Hollanders - who threw the sea out of our country - will let the Germans have it? Better the sea.”
Pamela Brown - Els Meertens

“They're an unhappy people. I would rather be a Dutchman in Holland than any German soldier. They want to believe that somebody's their friend, and that's the whole trick.”

Googie Withers - Jo de Vries

“Murder is my favorite crime.”
Clifton Webb - Waldo Lydecker