Suspicion (1941)

Auriol Lee: Isobel Sedbusk

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• Isobel Sedbusk : You couldn't hurt a fly, Bertram, unless it was already dead.

• Isobel Sedbusk : I always think of my murderers as my heroes.

• 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.

• Isobel Sedbusk : I never knew you were such a *murder* story fan.

  Lina : [in suspecting Johnnie of contemplating murder]  Neither did I until recently.

• 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.