Born to Kill (1947)

Walter Slezak: Albert Arnett

Photos 

Quotes 

• Delivery Boy : My, that coffee smells good. Ain't it funny how coffee never tastes as good as it smells?

  Albert Arnett : As you grow older, you'll discover that life is very much like coffee: the aroma is always better than the actuality. May that be your thought for the day.

• Albert Arnett : It's quite all right, Mrs. Brent. I am a man of integrity, but I'm always willing to listen to an interesting offer.

  Helen Brent : Well, I'm prepared to pay handsomely.

  Albert Arnett : Good. Obstructing the wheels of justice is a costly affair.

  Helen Brent : Five thousand dollars should do it.

  Albert Arnett : Fifteen thousand dollars should do it.

• Albert Arnett : In that case, I shall have to forge ahead with my inquiry. And may I remind you that Nevada courts have rather puritanical views. Why some of our more impassioned juries even insist that a man who commits murder pay with his life.

• Albert Arnett : You remember the verse from the Bible, Mrs. Brent? "I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and he who falls beneath their spell has need of God's mercy."

• Helen Brent : [sarcastically]  Your ethics touch me deeply.

  Albert Arnett : Noblesse oblige...

• Albert Arnett : Which will, believe me, be exceedingly painful to a man of my integrity.

  Mrs. Kraft : It won't hurt half as much as me to lose my $500.

• Mrs. Perth : And speakin' of debts, you ain't paid your share of the phone for three months, Arnett.

  Albert Arnett : Et tu, Brutus?

  Mrs. Perth : I ain't talkin' about what you et. That's on the house. But I want eight dollars and fiddy-five cents for the phone.

• Albert Arnett : Has it occurred to you? Neither of us looks like a scoundrel, do we?