Quotes by : Raymond Chandler

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

You like it in jail?It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.....

You like it in jail?''It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type....

Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful....

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a....

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer,....