If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.
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 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 haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.
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.
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.
[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 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.
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...
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.
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...
Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.
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...
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.
He turned to face her. The two vertical lines above his nose were deep clefts between red wales. I don't give a damn about your honesty, he told her, trying to make himself speak calmly. I don't care...
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...
But besides, I haven't the time, I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.