“The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows. Husbands, dead husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives.”
Joseph Cotten - Charlie Oakley

“- Nora Charles: I think it's a dirty trick to bring me all the way to New York just to make a widow of me.
- Nick Charles: You wouldn't be a widow long.
- Nora Charles: You bet I wouldn't!
- Nick Charles: Not with all your money...”
Myrna Loy - Nora Charles
William Powell - Nick Charles

“You don't know anything about what's inside him. And neither does she, his wife. That's probably what she thought when she married him. A smooth operator with money in his pockets. But now he isn't smooth any longer and she's lost interest in him.”

Teresa Wright - Peggy Stephenson

“I been savin' this money for a divorce, if ever I got a husband.”
Lillian Randolph - Annie

“That philanthropic cocksucker left all the money to the poor and not a dirty dime to me! Oh, Mary, Mother of God, what have I ever done to you? Life... without money is no goddamned life at all! You know that!”

Dana Ivey - Mrs. Essendine