- Doris Mann: You feel sorry half the time for having a monster of a mother like me. Everything about you says "look what you've done to me".
- Suzanne Vale: I never said you were a monster!
- Doris Mann: You don't say it, but you feel it. Somehow, you lay the entire blame for your drug-taking on me.
Shirley MacLaine - Doris Mann
Meryl Streep - Suzanne Vale

“- Michael Shayne: She can't do that to me!
- Ethel: You can't blame her none, Mike. After all, she was caught between a stiff breeze and plenty of wind.
- Michael Shayne: Talk English!
- Ethel: You gave her a stiff breeze, and he gave her plenty of wind.”

Lloyd Nolan - Michael Shayne
Marie Blake - Ethel

“A girl of sixteen's practically an idiot anyway, so I can't very well blame you for something that was practically done by somebody else.”

Henry Fonda - Charles

“If man places self in way of finger of suspicion, must not be surprised if he receive poke in the eye.”

Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

Women are always trying to take the blame for men - it's what you call "the mother instinct".
Emory Parnell - Mr. Tuerck