I don’t get away soon I’ll be going blood-simple like the natives.
I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon. (Kasper Gutman)
Emotions are useless during business hours...
I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
Gilbert put down the magazine he was looking at and politely said he hoped I was recovering from my injury. I said I was.I've never been hurt, really hurt, he went on, that I can remember. I've tried...
To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.
She grinned at me. 'You got types?''Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.
Porky Grout, whose yellowness was notorious from Seattle to San Diego, standing rigidly in the path of a charging metal monster, with an inadequate pistol in each hand. She had done that to Porky Grou...
And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it. - Detective Sam Spade
You're not going to go around poking at the fire and straightening up the room again, are you?
When he awakened again he could stand, and did. He doused his head in cold water and drank four glasses of water. The water made him sick and after that he began to shake with a chill. He went into th...
Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v mot...
Sam Spade: You're a good man, sister.
Now I'm going to have my fun. I've got ten thousand dollars of your money to play with. I'm going to use it opening Poisonville up from Adam's apple to ankles.
How do you feel? Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.
He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.
Alice opened the door when I rang. She had on green pyjamas and held a hairbrush in one hand. She looked wearily at Quinn and spoke wearily: Bring it in.I took it in and spread it on a bed. It mumbled...
You like Nick a lot, don't you, Nora? Dorothy asked.He's an old Greek fool, but I'm used to him.Charles isn't a Greek name.It's Charalambides, I explained. When the old man came over, the mugg that pu...
Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.
We found a table. Nora said: She's pretty.If you like them like that.She grinned at me. You got types?Only you, darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.And how about the red-head you wandered off w...