Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.

- Thelma Ritter

Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away... I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then …

- Thelma Ritter

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit o…

- Thelma Ritter

When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around ana…

- Thelma Ritter

Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

- Thelma Ritter

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

- Thelma Ritter

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

- Thelma Ritter