- Col. Perceval March: Somebody once said that... that you can tell about a man from his books, but I wonder about that.
- [laughs]
- Col. Perceval March: I don't believe it's any more true than you can tell about a book by its cover. You know, I've been able to tell more about a man by what he ate or didn't eat.
- Marion: You're an evil, horrible old man.
- Col. Perceval March: Most distressing but quite irrelevant.
- Col. Perceval March: I'd hoped this was my kind of a case, but you've taken all the fun out of it. Now it's just a greedy little murder.
- Col. Perceval March: Did it ever occur to you, Miss Clara, that even a poiceman should have a holiday?