Popular Copper Quotes
Corcoran: So is that a new hat?
Francis: Yeah.
Corcoran: Is it a present or a purchase?
Francis: Present. I'm engaged, to Miss Mary Lockwood.
Corky thinks I should have a childhood. But I don't want one. And it's too late now. I'm a woman.
Annie
Corcoran: What's the word? How many dead bodies hanging about this morning?
Francis: One.
Corcoran: One? This keeps up and we'll be out of a job.
Elizabeth: I only hope that a priest of her own faith will be able to reach her soul in a way that I cannot.
Priest: Do not fret Mrs. Haverford, no child is beyond redemption.
Eva: Child, you no longer live here.
Annie: But what if I did live here?
Eva: Why would you choose such a thing? I work everyday with one goal: to live uptown with the Haverfords of this world.
Corcoran: I'll talk with Annie. Again.
Eva: She insists on staying with me. But what she really wants is to be near you.
Corcoran: Take her back to Mrs. Haverford's.
Eva: If she doesn't feel like she belongs in that world, she'll keep running from it!
You're thinking Mrs. Devery ain't our killer. Know what else I hear? Birds, laughing at you! You're too smart for your own good!
O'Brien [to Corcoran]
There is darkness in this world, Sara. We, both of us, have been touched by it. There are times when I feel lost, and in those times I feel for us. But this child, our child, will be a light, a beacon in this darkness.
Matthew
Tell me everything's going to be all right, Kevin. Even if it won't. Even if it won't.
Annie
Annie: I killed Mr. Reilly. I'm gonna hang!
Corcoran: No one's gonna hang. Did he follow you to California?
Annie: Mrs. Haverford gave me to him.
Francis: Who did this to you?
Mary: Can't you just let me be? Every five minutes, I turn around and you're there!
Elizabeth: I only want to speak with Annie.
John Reilly [cocks gun]: You ain't on Fifth Avenue now.
