TV series: Colombo (Columbo)

An empty stomach is a convenient foothold for the devil.
An empty stomach is the Devil's playground.

How do you do it? How can you put a woman almost in love?
- Who told you?
You said that yourself.
- Look, if you believe everything the COP says, then you are a fool.

If they do - catch them. Even if the angel did it, I'd get the handcuffs for hands and a rope for the wings.

- You have a name by which I address you?
Yes. Lieutenant.

It's a private club, international. We are only his Department. Our members are tested, the coefficient should be within the top two percent.
- Factor what, sir?
- Intelligence, Lieutenant. <...>
- So I talked to the smartest people in the world? I didn't notice.

How can you look at killing innocent animals?

- Doesn't look like a killer. You know, after fifteen years in this business, I just look at a person to say that this man cannot be the killer.
- How often you are right?
- Twenty per cent. Of course, if this man were not killed too often.

And this? I don't see the names. What's that?
Is? That, sir, is fan to ventilate the room.
- Just a fan? How embarrassing.

- Could you explain to me this?
- The art cannot be explained. That's what you feel.

- I work nights and I rarely watch TV. Mrs. Columbo reads a lot and in the evenings goes to evening classes, so a true lover of TV at our house, my dog. My friend, the TV will work - and it's great! Dog loves TV, but he fails a lot to watch. See? Do you like it? [turns to the dog]
And he likes?
- Yes, sir, I think like.
How do you know?
- He never watches what he does not like.
- And when he doesn't like, how do you know he doesn't like?
He looks very boring, despair...

There is nothing that draws you to the past, as someone's death.

- You received this award for yourself, mA'am?
- Of course, myself, Lieutenant.
- For "Best documentary". <...> Certainly, you are a very smart woman.
- Let's say: I'm a working stiff.

I don't always trust people who say they will never take advantage of the circumstances. What else then to use it?

- You know, I remember only one new car. It was bought by my father. I remember how proud he was, how she smelled. I got the impression that you're inside of a Pullman car, even though she was not the same as yours.
- My father never owned a car until I bought him. I was twenty, I just sold my first book. We compare our stories of poverty?
- Not "rolls-Royce", mA'am.