167 Quotes by Dashiell Hammett

Sam Spade: When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it.

Do you think my father killed her, Nick?” “No,” I said. “Why should I?” “Well, the police have – Listen, she was his mistress, wasn’t she?” I nodded. “When I knew them.” She stared at her glass while saying, “He’s my father. I never liked him. I never liked Mamma.” She looked up at me. “I don’t like Gilbert.” Gilbert was her brother. “Don’t let that worry you. Lots of people don’t like their relatives.

You’re like everybody else: some people like you, some people don’t, and some have no feeling about it one way or the other.

It was a good trick, only it didn’t work. In.

I don’t,” he said, “and that’s a fact. I just can’t size them up at all. This Mrs. Jorgensen, now, what is she?” “A blonde.

Your playmates sent him?” I asked, nodding at the dead man. “I only talked to him with this,” he said, patting the automatic on the bed, “but I reckon they did.” “How did it happen?” “It happened simple enough. I heard the door opening, and I switched on the light, and there he was, and I shot him, and there he is.

We believed your two hundred dollars.

It’s awfully easy to be in love in jail.

Presently she said: “It’s none of my business, Nick, but what do people think of me?” “You’re like everybody else: some people like you, some people don’t, and some have no feeling about it one way or the other.