Explore Quotes by Dashiell Hammett

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

I like women. I really like women.

Another man whose social life has ruined him.

I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.

She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction

You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.

If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.