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I like women. I really like women.
It's awfully easy to be in love in jail
It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.
I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.
I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
Another man whose social life has ruined him.
Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
The roof might fall in; anything could happen.
Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.
He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.
Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.
Thanks for the information about what we call business.
With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.
The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.
You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.
Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.
To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.
I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.
Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction
Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.
The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you.
I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.
Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.
He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.
She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.
I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people.
My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.
I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.
Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.
Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.
It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.
The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.
Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one.
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.
...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.
The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered
Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.
I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.
I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.
People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.