John Michael Hayes quotes:

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.

Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.

Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

Frances Stevens: Mother, this is why I've had to spend half my life running around the world after youto keep men like this away from you.

Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.