John Michael Hayes Quotes

#1. 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.

John Michael Hayes

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

John Michael Hayes

#3. 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.

John Michael Hayes

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

John Michael Hayes

#5. Frances Stevens: Mother, this is why I've had to spend half my life running around the world after youto keep men like this away from you.
Mrs. Stevens: Well after this, let me run my own interference. It looks like the blockers are having all the fun.

John Michael Hayes

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

John Michael Hayes