Col. Joe Parkman: Maybe there's an ordinary explanation to what happened, but I wouldn't take any bets.

- Craig Stevens in The Deadly Mantis (1957)

Dr. Ned Jackson: I'm convinced that we're dealing with a Mantis in whose geological world the smallest insects were as large as man, and now failing to find those insects as food, well... it's doing the best that it can.

- William Hopper in The Deadly Mantis (1957)

Dr. Ned Jackson: In all the kingdom of the living, there is no more deadly or voracious creature than the Preying Mantis.

- William Hopper in The Deadly Mantis (1957)

[the officers are all staring at Marge]
Dr. Ned Jackson: It looks like you don't have too many women up here, Colonel.
Col. Joe Parkman: Well, we have a little joke up here. The boys say there's a girl behind every tree. Only try and find a tree.

- Craig Stevens in The Deadly Mantis (1957)