Montague Hartley: [talking to Gil] This is on a par with your other stupid accusation!
Richard Hartley: Yes, two more brains and he'd be a half wit.

- Alan Ladd (as Richard Hartley) in The Black Cat (1941)

Hubert Smith: [driving in the rain over a bumpy road] As an antique dealer, Mr. Penny, what do you think of this road?
Mr. Penny: Oh, I'd hate to meet the worms that made these holes. Whoo-hoo!

- Hugh Herbert (as Mr. Penny) in The Black Cat (1941)

Hubert Smith: Oh, then you're the guy that slugged me.
Richard Hartley: Yeah, and I'll do it again any time you train down to my weight.

- Alan Ladd (as Richard Hartley) in The Black Cat (1941)

Mr. Penny: [looking at the cats on the grounds after the rainstorm] It looks like it's been raining cats and cats around here.

- Hugh Herbert (as Mr. Penny) in The Black Cat (1941)

Mr. Penny: [referring to Abigail] What a puss! Like a lemon rinse!

- Hugh Herbert (as Mr. Penny) in The Black Cat (1941)

Mr. Penny: That house is doubly blest / Which to our feline friends gives rest.
Hubert Smith: Her hats are full of bats / For spending all her dough on cats.

- Broderick Crawford (as Hubert A. Gilmore 'Gil' Smith) in The Black Cat (1941)

Elaine Winslow: Were you insinuating that Grandmother's death wasn't accidental?
Hubert Smith: Well, she wasn't killed by kindness, was she?

- Broderick Crawford (as Hubert A. Gilmore 'Gil' Smith) in The Black Cat (1941)

Myrna Hartley: [responding to a noise] What was that?
Hubert Smith: Only a cat. There's always a cat someplace around here.

- Broderick Crawford (as Hubert A. Gilmore 'Gil' Smith) in The Black Cat (1941)