84 Quotes About Hard-boiled

I was doing a cheap sneaky job for people I didn't like, but that's what you hire out for, chum. They pay the bills, you dig the dirt.

A hard-boiled redhead sang a hard-boiled song in a voice that could have been used to split firewood (Guns at Cyrano's)

The car slid along Los Angeles to Fifth, east to San Pedro, south again for block after block, quiet blocks and loud blocks, blocks where silent men sat on shaky front porches and blocks where noisy young toughs of both colors snarled and wise-cracked at one another in front of cheap restaurants and drug-stores and beer parlors full of slot machines. (Pickup on Noon Street)

I'm part Chinese, part Hawaiian, part Filipino, and part nigger. You'd hate to be me

Her voice was a throaty screech, without melody, as false as her eyebrows and as sharp as her nails. (The King in Yellow)

Her voice was as dead as the summer before last. (Nevada Gas)

Anytime I fall for a dame like you I hope that somebody will take me outside an' cut my head off quick because I would rather be tied up to a coupla wild alligators than get myself hitched on to you.

She was in trouble, and she passed it on to me like an infection and standing here in the rain I didn't give a damn.

Racket beer, sonny,” he said sadly. “Tasteless as a roadhouse blonde.” (Spanish Blood)