Copper Quotes
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.
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.
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.
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: 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.
Elizabeth: It looks magical!
Corcoran: Magic won't stop the roderick gang from coming in here and holding up your rich friends. People will get killed, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth: Nothing good comes from fear.
Corcoran: n=Nothing good comes from denial, either.
Police chief: Friday just happens to be the one night my men work gratis. You're a lucky woman.
Elizabeth: All widows are.
You ain't got no right coming back expecting everything to be the same. Go make your life, like I'm doing.
Francis [to Corcoran]
I love this idea! Celt versus African battling in a civilized manner. Tickets will be hotter than hell's boiler room.
Morehouse
Now I'm here because a woman was murdered. Not an innocent one mind ya, but which of us are?
Corcoran
You have yet to ask a question, and yet it seems you already have an answer.
Morehouse
