- General Dixon: Where's your present?
- Martie Carter: In my bedroom.
- General Dixon: When will you give it to him?
- Martie Carter: After dinner.
- General Dixon: From man to man, any chance you could tell me what it is?
- Martie Carter: All I can say is that it's something to help Dad with his next murder.
- General Dixon: What barbarity!
- Felix Lane: Life no longer has a purpose for me. I was clinging to the hope of finding that murdering beast. I did all I could to find him - for nothing. Why carry on living?
- General Dixon: I understand your pain, Frank. But not your weakness.
- Felix Lane: [first entry in his diary] I am going to kill a man. I don't know his name. I don't know where he lives, I have no idea what he looks like, but I will find him and I will kill him.
- Linda Lawson: What are you implying?
- Carpax: Nothing. That escapade at my house. You and Rafferty were "playing around."
- Linda Lawson: Let me tell you, that wasn't "play." Rafferty was always a beast. He never left me alone, although I was his wife's sister.
- Violeta Rattery: You tried to make me hate him by pointing out his affairs.
- Sra. Rattery: I just showed you the woman who was after him.
- Rhoda Carpax: Are you insinuating that's me?
- Sra. Rattery: You and your generous husband.
- Inspector Blount: Rattery's sister-in-law, Linda, bothers me.
- Nigel Strangeways: Why?
- Inspector Blount: She's in love with your defendant.
- Nigel Strangeways: How do you know?
- Inspector Blount: My intuition. Plus, the servants told me.
- [first lines]
- Linda Lawson: I believe it is my right to know why Felix is not welcome in this house.
- Jorge Rattery: Because he's a pig! A filthy pig!
- Linda Lawson: You think everyone's a pig, that's no explanation.
- Jorge Rattery: Let her say what she wants. It's her fault for bringing that pig into this house.
- Linda Lawson: You are the only pig here.
- Jorge Rattery: Me? I could get rid of you both with one hand. But I have a better punishment for you.
- Linda Lawson: Whichever one of us poisoned him had reason to kill him.
- Inspector Blount: And you, what was your reason to kill him?
- Linda Lawson: He destroyed the lives of my sister and her son. He chased me like a beast. He made me his...
- General Dixon: Colonel Dowell used to say that he couldn't drink pure whiskey because when he saw the bottle, his mouth watered.
- Felix Lane: A drop of sherry, General?
- General Dixon: Oh, no, no. No alcohol before dinner. Perhaps a little whiskey.
- General Dixon: She kept asking me what would make her beautiful. I couldn't take anymore, so I told her, "Shave, Madam!"
- Felix Lane: [laughs] General, you can't deny that wasn't very kind.
- General Dixon: That's why I wasn't promoted. She was the Prime Minister's wife.
- Felix Lane: It's easy to condemn others. But not so easy to bear that memory, to hide the anguish, to pretend all the time. It's not easy. It's easier to forget guilt.
- Felix Lane: Such a big car got stuck?
- Mujer de la cabaña: It must have sunk deep and water got into the engine.
- Felix Lane: When women drive, things happen.
- Linda Lawson: Did I keep you waiting?
- Felix Lane: Not at all. I arrived one hour early.
- Linda Lawson: What?
- Felix Lane: Of course. One waits fifteen minutes for an ordinary woman, thirty for a pretty woman, one hour for a beautiful woman, for you, no less than two hours.
- Linda Lawson: Felix Lane is too famous to waste his time on a simple actress.
- Felix Lane: Yet it's you - people are staring at.
- Linda Lawson: That's just curiosity. You are famous.
- Felix Lane: A fame I'm not flattered by - based on murders that I didn't commit.
- Linda Lawson: You'd have preferred real ones?
- Felix Lane: Perhaps. I'd like to know how it feels to have killed someone.
- Linda Lawson: I don't like beach resorts. Too many people.
- Felix Lane: The place I have in mind isn't a resort. It's a very quiet place, with amazing cliffs and a sea so beautiful that it's not a sea, it's like your eyes.
- Linda Lawson: Why don't you write poetry?
- Felix Lane: That depends on you.
- Linda Lawson: Don't pretend that you'd write verses just for me.
- Felix Lane: I'm not easily inspired, only by exceptional beauty.
- Felix Lane: Ever since I saw your photograph, I became obsessed about meeting you.
- Linda Lawson: I don't believe you could be so vulgar as to fall for an actress in a photograph.
- Linda Lawson: Let's stop pretending. When will you declare your feelings?
- Felix Lane: I - to tell you the truth, I was waiting for the coffee.
- Linda Lawson: [slapped by Felix] You brute! Let me go! Let me go! You beast! You beast! Beast!
- [kiss]
- Linda Lawson: Don't feel badly of me.
- Felix Lane: I'm the one who should apologize.
- Linda Lawson: You must think I'm a floozy, but I'm not. I swear I'm not! I drank too much. Sometimes I have to numb myself.
- Jorge Rattery: Linda has brought us a cat. Angora or Persian?
- Felix Lane: Linda calls me Cat because of Felix.
- Jorge Rattery: That's even better. Felix the Cat!
- Felix Lane: I imagine they'd call you Rat. Rattery. Rat.
- Jorge Rattery: Still angry with me? Are you that fierce with your Cat?
- Linda Lawson: He's not a dirty beast.
- Jorge Rattery: And I am? You are unfair. If I were a beast, I'd be bitter about last night.
- Jorge Rattery: So you write novels.
- Felix Lane: That's correct. Detective novels.
- Jorge Rattery: Ah, crime stories. That reassures me. I thought Linda was going to bring me a real writer.
- Jorge Rattery: Coward. Even with the ladies.
- Felix Lane: What's up with Ronnie?
- Jorge Rattery: Rhoda tried to kiss him and it scared the brat. He'll never be a man.
- Felix Lane: One of these days, we'll go sailing. I'll teach you the language of the wind. How to find the path between the waves. I'll make you a friend of the sea.
- Ronnie Hershey: Can you teach me all that?
- Felix Lane: I taught it to a boy I loved very much.
- Ronnie Hershey: Loved? And where is he now?
- Felix Lane: He died - because of a beast.
- Violeta Rattery: Jorge has nervous dyspepsia.
- Jorge Rattery: Nobody asked you. Passing me off as a useless invalid like your dead husband? Stupid woman!
- [takes a drink of medicine]
- Jorge Rattery: How disgusting. It tastes like poison. You wish it were poison.
- Sra. Rattery: Aren't you ashamed of them?
- Violeta Rattery: What can I do?
- Sra. Rattery: What any woman would do, to avoid such sinful behavior.
- Carpax: In order to kill, it is important you are calm. Let's see. Take aim. Carefully. Observing well. Now, gently press the trigger.
- Opening Title Card: The beast must die, And man must also die; Yes, their fate is the same. Ecclesiastes 3:19
- Felix's Editor: My dear Felix, I don't believe you grew a beard just to hide Frank Carter.
- Felix Lane: Why do you say that?
- Felix's Editor: You've impressed Linda.
- Felix Lane: What is your point?
- Felix's Editor: In one of Huxley's novels, he mentions how women are excited by beards.
- Jorge Rattery: You are so evil!
- Linda Lawson: Let me go!
- Jorge Rattery: Not me. You prefer that midget you brought to make me jealous.
- Linda Lawson: Let me go, I tell you! You filthy brute!