- [Mrs Harmon nearly trips over her cat]
- Mrs. Harmon: Oh, do be careful, Delilah!
- Det. Inspector Craddock: Delilah?
- Mrs. Harmon: My husband named her that. I'm afraid her moral standards are rather similar!
- Hannah: [when asked about the murder] The door bell rings, I answer the door, the door bell rings again, I answer the door again, the door bell rings again, I answer the door again, the door bell rings again...
- Det. Inspector Craddock: After the guests have all arrived.
- Hannah: Oh... I go to the dinning room to clean the silver, I hear shots, I scream, somebody turns the key and lets me out, I scream again, somebody hits me! I see blood.
- Det. Inspector Craddock: You scream again?
- Hannah: I think so. Are you going to arrest me?
- Det. Inspector Craddock: [smiles] Not today.
- Dora Bunner: Well, young Edmund Swettenham moons around her a bit. He's a very odd young man - writes books - and I-I have heard that he's a-a Communist!
- Miss Jane Marple: Oh really, yes, well, he must be rather lonely in Chipping Cleghorn.
- Mrs. Swettenham: People don't announce murders! Marriages, yes, but not murders. Put that dreadful paper down, and have a look.
- Edmund Swettenham: [Reading the Daily Worker] It isn't a dreadful paper.
- Mrs. Swettenham: You're not even a worker!
- Edmund Swettenham: I'm writing a book!
- Mrs. Swettenham: I mean real work.
- Miss Murgatroyd: [Murgatroyd is describing the murder] I remember that girl screaming and a voice saying,"'Put them up, please."
- Miss Hinchcliffe: Ha ha! "Stick 'em up," and he certainly didn't say, "Please!"
- Dora Bunner: [looking at the tea cakes] They're terribly pink, aren't they?
- Miss Jane Marple: Well, probably an artificial substitute for flavor.
- Belle Goedler: Let me ramble on, and stop me if it becomes boring. Agreed?
- Det. Inspector Craddock: Agreed.
- Miss Lettie Blacklock: Is this your idea of a joke, Patrick?
- Patrick Simmons: I can think of much better jokes than announcing a murder in the local rag!
- [Edmund has made an unpleasant remark]
- Patrick Simmons: It's usually me who spoils the party with a bad joke.