Quotes by : Raymond Chandler

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening....

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

Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always,....

A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She....

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It....

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

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity.....

You can crab over the morning paper and kick the shins of the guy in the next seat at the movies and....

It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not....

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