I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during...
I bet she snaps a mean garter.
His voice was the elaborately casual voice of the tough guy in pictures. Pictures have made them all like that.
Her voice was as dead as the summer before last. (Nevada Gas)
He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.
Gano muchísima pasta. Tengo que ganar muchísima pasta para untar a los tipos a los que tengo que untar para ganar muchísima pasta y untar así a los tipos que tengo que untar.
No estoy dispuesto a hablar, Eddie. ¿Por qué iba a hacerlo?Dejó la pistola sobre el escritorio y la golpeó con la mano abierta.- Esto -dijo-. Y yo podría hacer que le resultara provechoso.- Ya, eso su...
Tall, aren't you?I didn't mean to be.
Shake your business up and pour it. I don't have all day.
Dames lie about anything - just for practice.
A good title is the title of a successful book.
In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.
What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like th...
The law enforcement in this town is terrific. All through prohibition Eddie Mars' place was a night club and they had two uniformed men in the lobby every night-to see that the guests didn't bring the...
The challenge is to write about real things magically.
The air was thick, wet, steamy and larded with the cloying smell of tropical orchids in bloom.
The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
She’d make a jazzy weekend, but she’d be wearing for a steady diet.
Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres
I'm rich. Who the hell wants to be happy?