Memorable quotes for
The Seventh Victim (1943) More at IMDbPro »

Nancy: Jacqueline, you've spoken so often of ending it all I can't understand why this should be so difficult for you. You have only to drink a little.
Esther Redi, Jacqueline's Partner: Yes, Jacqueline. You were always talking suicide; ending your life when you wanted to.
Jacqueline Gibson: Yes, when *I* wanted to.
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Mary Gibson: I feel like an idiot fainting in a stranger's office.
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Mary Gibson: He was a kind little man in his way. I made him go down that hall into the darkness. I made him do it.
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Police Officer Danny, Bureau Clerk: I tell you young lady. When a thing likes this comes up you got to go to the police. What do you think people pay taxes for? It ain't just to keep us chasing after crooks and regulating traffic. We're suppose to help everybody. Now, you got to go to the police about your sister, Miss.
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Gregory Ward: No, that room made her happy in some strange way I couldn't understand. She lived in a world of her own fancy. She didn't always tell the truth. In fact, I'm afraid she didn't know what the truth was.
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Doctor Louis Judd: You're not a tipsomaniac at your age?
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Doctor Louis Judd: I'm sorry, I don't practice anymore. I find it easier to write about mental illness and leave the cure to others.
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Doctor Louis Judd: As a man you distrust me. Perhaps you can believe me as a physician
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Doctor Louis Judd: One can take either staircase. I prefer the left. The sinister side.
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Gladys: My dear, we were intimate. The times we use to have together! I bet she never told you about that - you're too young.
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Frances Fallon: Your sister had many friends, but they weren't my friends. I was only the manager of her plant.
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Mrs. Bella Romari: Why can't everyone be happy like we are? Laugh and have a good time. That poor little one - so sad because she can't find her sister. And that man with her, he doesn't make her laugh - just sits and talk.
Jason Hoag, Poet: We are happy Mrs. Romari. You have everything, and I have nothing to lose.
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Jason Hoag, Poet: I'm under orders to make you laugh. In Mrs. Romari's mind, poetry and humor has some strange affinity, which they don't have in fact. She wants me to play the fool for you but... suddenly Miss Gibson, I feel as sad as you do.
Mary Gibson: Well, then, I've spoiled your dinner. Your food won't digest and your wine will sour.
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Jason Hoag, Poet: I'm a terrible failure Mary. A book clerk by day, a poet by night. Not a very good one. But if you'll trust me, in this one thing I won't fail. I'll find your sister.
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Gregory Ward: I love your sister, Mary. I love her very much. It's easy to understand now isn't it? A man would look for her anywhere Mary. There's something... exciting and unforgettable about Jacqueline. Something you never... quite get hold of. Something that keeps a man following after her.
Mary Gibson: Because I loved Jacqueline I thought I knew her. Today I found out such strange things, frightening things. I saw a hangman's noose that Jacqueline had hanging... waiting.
Gregory Ward: Well, at least I can explain about that. Your sister had a feeling about life; that it wasn't worth living unless one could end it. I helped her get that rope.
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