Suspicion (1941)
Auriol Lee: Isobel Sedbusk
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Quotes
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Isobel Sedbusk : You couldn't hurt a fly, Bertram, unless it was already dead.
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Isobel Sedbusk : I always think of my murderers as my heroes.
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Isobel Sedbusk : Imagine a substance in daily use everywhere. Anyone can lay his hands on it, and within a minute after taking, the victim's beautifully out of the way. Mind you, it's undetectable after death.
Lina : Is whatever it is, painful?
Isobel Sedbusk : Oh, not in the least. In fact I should think it'd be a most pleasant death.
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Isobel Sedbusk : I never knew you were such a *murder* story fan.
Lina : [in suspecting Johnnie of contemplating murder] Neither did I until recently.
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Lina : [about a murder in one of her novels] When he enticed his victim across the footbridge, knowing that the bridge has been sawn through...
Isobel Sedbusk : He also knew that his victim couldn't swim. Don't forget that.
Lina : Well, what I want to know is this. Would you call that an actual murder?
Isobel Sedbusk : Well, from a moral standpoint there's no question at all. It is murder.