Nico 'Nick' Garcos: Hey, do you like apples?
Rica: Everybody likes apples, except doctors.
Nico 'Nick' Garcos: Do you know what it takes to get an apple so you can sink your beautiful teeth in it? You gotta stuff rags up tailpipes, farmers gotta get gypped, you jack up trucks with the back of your neck, universals conk out...
Rica: I don't know what are you talking about, but I have a new respect for apples.


--Valentina Cortese (as Rica) in Thieves' Highway

Nico 'Nick' Garcos: Soft hands.
Rica: Sharp nails.


--Valentina Cortese (as Rica) in Thieves' Highway

Rica: [knowingly, after getting out of the shower, and hearing that Polly has walked out on Nick] Aren't women wonderful?


--Valentina Cortese (as Rica) in Thieves' Highway

Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini: It is time for the Torlato-Favrinis to get off the world.
Eleanora Torlato-Favrini: The fact remains that we are neither unique nor important to the world. And it will go on without us.


--Valentina Cortese (as Eleanora Torlato) in The Barefoot Contessa