Dashiell Hammett Quotes

The garments, in case you can`t place them, are fatigue clothes and arctic field jackets. They are are work clothes, but what am I doing?

I still think you are a pain in the neck.

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

I like women. I really like women.

I haven`t any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That`s Lily.

I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.

Another man whose social life has ruined him.

Looks like she`s been slapping the kid again.

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain`t one.

It`s sometimes better to pretend I don`t hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

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.

I don`t know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.

It`s awfully easy to be in love in jail.

He`s groaning under a crown of thorns.

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

I`ve been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.