167 Quotes by Dashiell Hammett

I haven’t laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

The truth is you don’t like the theater except the times when you’re in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

And when you’re slapped you’ll take it and like it.” – Detective Sam Spade.

She jealous?” I asked before he could go on with his shouting. “And if you don’t yell maybe I’ll be able to hear you anyway. My deafness is a lot better since I’ve been eating yeast.

Listen, darling, tomorrow I’ll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don’t worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

I know a man who once stole a Ferris-wheel.

You might as well take your punishment and get it over with.

Be still while I get up or I’ll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in.

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they’re easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You’d think they’d be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.