- Alfred Hitchcock - Host: [while defying gravity] Twice I've been mistaken for a dirigible. They keep trying to deflate me. I'm certain by now you've guessed that tonight's play is about gravity and people who resist the earth's pull. You're wrong. It's about an undertaker and one of the persons he undertakes.
- Stanton C. Barryvale: Never push goods on people that they can't use. Secret of the department store business. But what they can use, load them up to the gills.
- Rhoda Motherwell: What are you doing?
- Arthur Motherwell: [quickly takes a drink from a shot glass] What does it look like?
- Rhoda Motherwell: How many did you have before you got home?
- Arthur Motherwell: A man takes one drink!
- Rhoda Motherwell: Who are you kidding? You smell like a distillery.