167 Quotes by Dashiell Hammett

Nora stopped drinking to ask: “Did Wynant really steal it?” “Tch, tch, tch,” I said. “This is Christmas Eve: try to think good of your fellow man.

It’s a long while since I burst out crying because policemen didn’t like me.

I told him about the letter Wynant had sent his sister. He said: “He writes a lot of people, don’t he?

Murder doesn’t round out anybody’s life except the murdered’s and sometimes the murderer’s.

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