“Trouble is my business,” I said. “How else would I make a nickel?” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“She wore a steel gray business suit and under the jacket a dark blue shirt and a man's tie of lighter shade.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“But show business has always been like that - any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“If you can get past those awful idiot faces on the bleachers outside the theater without a sense of the collapse of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“The homicide skipper that year was a Captain Gregorius, a type of copper that is getting rarer but by no means extinct, the kind… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
