John Michael Hayes Quotes

Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

Stella, take these binoculars out of the case and bring them here, will ya? Trouble. I can smell it.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in the old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.

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