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...
Sam Spade: When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it.
It was a good trick, only it didn't work. In
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.
How do you feel? Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.
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.
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...
You might as well take your punishment and get it over with
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.
Quinn came over to refill his glass. He looked towards the bedroom door. Where'd you find the little blonde?Used to bounce it on my knee.Which knew? he asked. Could I touch it?
Murder doesn’t round out anybody’s life except the murdered’s and sometimes the murderer’s.
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.
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.
You’re like everybody else: some people like you, some people don’t, and some have no feeling about it one way or the other.
This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.