Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v ofhis mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes werehorizontal. The V motif...
Nick: Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?Nora: No, thanks.Nick: Maybe it would if I took one.
My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. My nice policeman wants to see you, she said. How do you feel?Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. I pushed Asta out of the way an...
Men came in and dragged us apart. It took us five minutes to bring Nora to. She sat up holding her cheek and looked around the room until she saw Morelli, nippers on one wrist, standing between two de...
If the Old Man said something was so, then it probably was, because he was one of these cautious babies who'll look out the window at a cloudburst and say, It seems to be raining, on the off-chance th...
If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.
I suppose you'll see her. You'll be disappointed at first. Then without being able to say how or when it happened, you'll find you've forgotten your disappointment, and the first thing you know you'll...
I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.
His wife was a tall, stringy woman, perhaps five years older than her husband—say, forty—with a mouth and chin that seemed shaped for gossiping.
He's cute, I said. Uh-huh, the grey man agreed, and so's dynamite.
He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.
He did not smile. I don't believe in anything, but I'm too much of a gambler not to be affected by a lot of things.
Cairo: You have always, i must say, a smooth explanation ready.Spade: What do you want me to do? Learn to stutter?
You're good. You're very good. It's chiefly your eyes, I think, and that throb you get into your voice when you say things like 'Be generous, Mr. Spade.
You might as well take your punishment and get it over with
We didn't exactly believe your story.'Then --?''We believed your two hundred dollars.''You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant.'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the tr...
Unplugged.
The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.
She jealous? I asked before he could go on with his shouting. And if you don’t yell maybe I’ll be able to hear you anyway. My deafness is a lot better since I’ve been eating yeast.