Quotes by : Dashiell Hammett

My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. "My nice policeman wants to see you,"....

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam....

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies....

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference....

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks....

...I guess I can put two and two together.""Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's....

How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?Why don't you stay sober today?We didn't come to New....

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....

I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.