Thelma Ritter

“The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse.”

“Margo is a great star. A true star. She never was or will be anything less or anything else.”

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

“I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to looking out the window. See things you shouldn't see. Trouble.”

“Listen, you take my advice. You'll get married. A woman who's not married is like a... well, they're like a fish out of water.”

“I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, and all I can say is, 'Give me a drink!'”

“When I married Myles, we were both a couple of maladjusted misfits. We are still maladjusted misfits, and we have loved every minute of it.”

“What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end.”

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

“Well, if there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.”

“If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.”

“A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.”