Best line in the movie
When Walter is in the shop he says to Phyllis
"And what about that black hat you were trying
on, before you needed a black hat?"
Phyllis: I wonder if I know what you mean?
Walter: I wonder if you wonder...
"Goodbye, baby"
(Bang!)
Neff: Whatdya think I was anyway? A guy that walks into a good-looking dame's front parlor and says "Good afternoon, I sell accident insurance on husbands -- you got one that's been around too long, one that you'd like to turn into a little hard cash?" Just gimme a smile and I'll help you collect? Boy, what a dope you must think I am!
Phyllis: I think you're rotten.
Neff: I think you're swell --- so long as I'm not your husband.
Phyllis: Get out of here.
Neff: You bet I'll get outta here, baby --- I'll get outta here but quick.
These are other favorites:
Neff hands Phyllis a bourbon and water and says: "See if you can carry that as far as the living room."
Neff: "So you lie awake in the dark and listen to him snore and get ideas."
Neff: "I'll tell you what it would be like -- if you had that accident policy and tried to pull a monoxide job --- we've got a guy in our office named Keyes; for him a setup like that would be like a slice of rare roast beef. In three minutes he'd know it wasn't an accident, in ten minutes you'd be sitting under the hot lights, and in a half hour you'd be signing your name to a confession."
Phyllis: "But Walter, I didn't do it and I'm not going to do it."
Neff: "Not if there's an insurance company in the picture baby. They know more tricks than a carload of monkeys. And if there's a death mixed up in it you haven't got a prayer --- they'll hang you as sure as ten dimes will buy a dollar."