1- “It’s just like the first time I came here, isn’t it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet.” (talking to Phyllis Dietrichson) – Walter Neff, ‘Double Indemnity’.
2- “I killed him. I killed him for money – and a woman – and I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman.” (writing his confession to Barton Keyes about Dietrichson’s murder) – Walter Neff, ‘Double Indemnity’.
3- “That was all there was to it.Nothing had slipped, nothing had been overlooked.There was nothing to give us away. And yet, Keyes, as I was walking down the street to the drugstore, suddenly, it came over me that everything would go wrong. It sounds crazy Keyes, but it’s true, so help me, I couldn’t hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.” – Walter Neff, ‘Double Indemnity’.
4- “Who’d you think I was anyway? The guy that walks into a good looking dame’s front parlour and says, “Good afternoon, I sell accident insurance on husbands… you got one that’s been around too long? One you’d like to turn into a little hard cash?”- Walter Neff, ‘Double Indemnity’.
5- “Suddenly it came over me that everything would go wrong. It sounds crazy, Keyes, but it’s true, so help me. I couldn’t hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.” – Walter Neff, ‘Double Indemnity’.
6- “Murder’s never perfect. Always comes apart sooner or later, and when two people are involved it’s usually sooner.” (talking to Walter Neff) – Barton Keyes, ‘Double Indemnity’.
7- “This Dietrichson business. It’s murder, and murders don’t come any neater. As fancy a piece of homicide as anybody ever ran into. Smart, tricky, almost perfect, but… I think Papa has it all figured out. It’s beginning to come apart at the seams already.” (talking to Walter Neff) – Barton Keyes, ‘Double Indemnity’.
8- “I picked you for the job, not because I think you’re so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You’re not smarter, Walter… you’re just a little taller.” (talking to Walter Neff)– Barton Keyes, ‘Double Indemnity’.
9- “They may think it’s twice as safe because there are two of them. But it isn’t twice as safe. It’s ten times twice as dangerous. They’ve committed a murder.” (talking to Walter Neff)– Barton Keyes, ‘Double Indemnity’.
10- “The job I’m talking about takes brains and integrity. It takes more guts than there is in 50 salesmen. It’s the hardest job in the business.” (after offering Walter Neff a job) – Barton Keyes, ‘Double Indemnity’.
11-“- Walter Neff: Afraid, baby?
– Phyllis Dietrichson: Yes, I’m afraid. But not of Keyes. I’m afraid of us. We’re not the same anymore. We did it so we could be together but instead of that, it’s pulling us apart.” (referring to her husband murder)-‘Double Indemnity’.
12- “- Phyllis Dietrichson: I don’t want to kill him. I never did. Not even when he gets drunk and slaps my face.
– Walter Neff: Only sometimes you wish he was dead.
– Phyllis Dietrichson: Perhaps I do.
– Walter Neff: And you wish it was an accident and you had that policy for $50,000 dollars. Is that it?
– Phyllis Dietrichson: Perhaps that too.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
13- “- Walter Neff: Now you hate him.
– Phyllis Dietrichson: Yes, Walter. He’s so mean to me. Every time I buy a dress or a pair of shoes, he yells his head off. He never lets me go anywhere. He keeps me shut up. He’s always been mean to me. Even his life insurance all goes to that daughter of his.” (referring to Phyllis husband)-‘Double Indemnity’.
14- “- Phyllis Dietrichson: We’re both rotten.
– Walter Neff: Only you’re a little more rotten.”-‘Double Indemnity’.
15- “- Walter Neff: What do the police figure?
– Barton Keyes: That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train. They’re satisfied. It’s not their dough.” (referring to the murder)-‘Double Indemnity’.
16- “- Walter Neff: You can’t get away with it. You want to knock him off, don’t you?
– Phyllis Dietrichson: That’s a horrible thing to say.
– Walter Neff: What do you 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. Have you got one that’s been around too long?”. (referring to Phyllis husband)-‘Double Indemnity’.
17- “- Walter Neff: Why didn’t you shoot again, baby? Don’t tell me it’s because you’ve been in love with me all this time.
– Phyllis Dietrichson: I never loved you, Walter, not you or anybody else. I’m rotten to the heart. I used you just as you said. That’s all you ever meant to me. Until a minute ago, when I couldn’t fire that second shot. I never thought that could happen to me.” (after Phyllis shoots a gun at Walter, missing him) –‘Double Indemnity’.
18- “Barton Keyes: Have you made up your mind?
Jackson: Mr. Keyes, I’m a Medford man – Medford, Oregon. Up in Medford, we take our time making up our minds.
Barton Keyes: Well, we’re not in Medford now, we’re in a hurry.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
19- “Phyllis: Neff is the name, isn’t it?
Walter Neff: Yeah. Two “F”s, like in Philadelphia, if you know the story.
Phyllis: What story?
Walter Neff: The Philadelphia Story.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
20- “Walter Neff: Yeah, I was, but I’m sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.
Phyllis: There’s a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff. Forty-five miles an hour.
Walter Neff: How fast was I going, officer?
Phyllis: I’d say around ninety.
Walter Neff: Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket.
Phyllis: Suppose I let you off with a warning this time.
Walter Neff: Suppose it doesn’t take.
Phyllis: Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles.
Walter Neff: Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder.
Phyllis: Suppose you try putting it on my husband’s shoulder.
Walter Neff: That tears it.” –‘Double Indemnity’.
Walter Neff: You can’t get away with it. You want to knock him off, don’t you?
– Phyllis Dietrichson: That’s a horrible thing to say.
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