It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.

- Leslie Ford

...he had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth were equipped with trolley tracks, …

- Leslie Ford

The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.

- Leslie Ford

Do you have to do murder? Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects--a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's i…

- Leslie Ford

A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept.

- Leslie Ford

Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.

- Leslie Ford

More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

- Leslie Ford

bitterness hardly cares what food it eats.

- Leslie Ford

Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and …

- Leslie Ford