Sam Spade: When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it.
But that's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.
Be still while I get up or I'll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in.
Он исчез, как исчезает кулак, когда разжимаешь пальцы («Мальтийский сокол»)
[Spade] scowled at Gutman and burst out irritably: Jesus God! is this the first thing you guys ever stole? You're a fine lot of lollipops! What are you going to do next-- get down and pray?
You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just...
When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it...
The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the v...
She's cute, but she's cuckoo. She wouldn't be his daughter if she wasn't. You can't tell how much of what she says is what she thinks. And you can't tell how much of what she thinks ever really happen...
Murder doesn’t round out anybody’s life except the murdered’s and sometimes the murderer’s.
It was a good trick, only it didn't work. In
I was two pavements from my destination when somebodey S-s-s-s-s'd at me.I probably didn't jump twenty feet.
I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.
He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.
Gutman smiled benignly at him and said: Well, Wilmer, I’m sorry indeed to lose you, and I want you to know that I couldn’t be any fonder of you if you were my own son; but—well, by Gad!—if you lose a...
Elihu Willsson opened the meeting. He said things couldn’t go on the way they were going. We were all sensible men, reasonable men, grown men who had seen enough of the world to know that a man couldn...
Desapareció - dijo Spade - como desaparece un puño cuando se abre la mano.
Your playmates sent him? I asked, nodding at the dead man. I only talked to him with this, he said, patting the automatic on the bed, but I reckon they did. How did it happen? It happened simple enoug...
This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.
Sam Spade: You're a good man, sister.