- District Attorney John Grant: Oh, come on now, Edith. Please, please, let's be honest with ourselves. You weren't thinking any more of Dick than i was.
- District Attorney John Grant: You never understood Dick. Neither one of us ever tried to understand. He was just something we kicked about between us to satisfy our own purposes and ambitions.
- District Attorney John Grant: And to me he was just a figurehead that I had groomed for the governorship to further my own political power. When I finally got wind of what was going on, he had become a damned important figurehead.
- Matron: [as prison guard reads writ of execution] All right, read it here. Can't you read it to yourself?
- Prison guard: I guess I could do that. Maybe if I just mumbled it would be all right.
- Matron: Mumble and be damned.