The Best Abigail Mitchell Quotes

Lt. Columbo: I can't tell you what a big help you've been.
Abigail: "Big help to Lieutenant Columbo." Wish my publishers could hear you say that.

Lt. Columbo: My car's right here. It's French. Very rare.
[Abigail looks at Columbo's car, dust-covered, front grill manged, and with license plate askew]
Abigail: Uh, yes. Oh, I can see why.

Lt. Columbo: [after Abigail Mitchell Shows Lt Columbo where she said she found the car keys next to the sprinkler head] I'll be running off now.
Abigail: Goodbye, young man.
[hesitates]
Abigail: Oh...
[follows after Lt. Columbo, then calls out]
Abigail: Lt. Columbo
[Lt. Columbo turns around]
Abigail: *Just one more question*.

Abigail: [about Columbo's basset hound] Is he all right?
Lt. Columbo: Well, yes, ma'am. Do you see something wrong?
Abigail: He seems to be scraping bottom.
Lt. Columbo: Well, that's the way they were made.

Lt. Columbo: [to his dog] Okay. Now, don't go away. Stay.
[Dog runs off]
Lt. Columbo: He's trained.
Abigail: Amazing.

Abigail: Is there murder in our civilized hearts? Obviously, there is in mine, and I'm well-paid.

[last lines]
Abigail: Just think, Lieutenant, if you had investigated my niece's death, all this need never have happened.

Lt. Columbo: [Referring to an old chair] Can I sit in this?
Abigail: Well, that's what it was made for 400 years ago.

Lt. Columbo: That must have been very hard losing someone you love like that. I've been very lucky. I've lost my parents, that's the way of the world. But to lose someone that young, that's like being cheated. That's very hard.
Abigail: I'm beginning to be very fond of you, Lieutenant. I think you're a very kind man.
Lt. Columbo: Don't count on that, Miss Mitchell. Don't count on it.

Abigail: Besides, I have work to do with Lieutenant Columbo.
Lt. Columbo: [mocking] 'I have work to do with Lieutenant Columbo'. I wish Mrs. Columbo could hear that.

Abigail: I'm beginning to be very fond of you, Lieutenant. I think you're a very kind man.
Lt. Columbo: Don't count on that, Miss Mitchell. Don't count on it.

Lt. Columbo: You know, I can remember the only new car my father ever bought. How proud he was. The way it smelled. Kind of like the inside of a Pullman car. It wasn't like this though, I'll tell you that.
Abigail: My father never owned a car. Not until I bought him one. I was 20; I'd just sold my first book. Shall we compare poverty stories, Lieutenant?
Lt. Columbo: Not in a Rolls Royce, ma'am.

Martin: Abigail, you are the most exasperating woman I have ever met!
Abigail: I accept all superlatives.