559 Quotes by Raymond Chandler

To say goodbye is to die a little.

You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

The law is where you buy it and what you pay for it.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

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

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science and the second is art.

Leave the gun out of it. I can always hear the sound of money.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...