Baines: Give me your handkerchief. It's things like that give secrets away. - Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol (1948)

---

Baines: It's a great life if you don't weaken. - Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol (1948)

---

Baines: There are faults on both sides, Phile. We don't have any call to judge. Perhaps she was what she was because I am what I am. We ought to be very careful, Phile. 'Cause we make one another. Phillipe: I thought God made us. Baines: Trouble is, we take a hand in the game. - Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol (1948)

---

Baines: There's lies and lies. Mrs. Baines: What do you mean by that? Baines: Some lies are just kindness. - Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol (1948)

---

Phillipe: Funny, isn't it? Julie working for the embassy and all this time she was your niece. Baines: Yes. It's a scream. - Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol (1948)

---

Inspector Crowe: How much easier it would be if everybody told the police the truth in the first place. - Denis O'Dea in The Fallen Idol (1948)

---

Dr. Fenton: Death is like a business. It has to be attended to. - Walter Fitzgerald in The Fallen Idol (1948)

---

Policeman: [to Phillipe] Walking in your sleep, were you? Rose: That's all I was doing. - Dora Bryan in The Fallen Idol (1948)

---

[first lines] Baines: Good day, sir... In his office there, miss. - Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol (1948)

---