--- title: "22 Ifs Quotes By Raymond Chandler" description: "22 Ifs quotes by Raymond Chandler. Plus more from Raymond Chandler and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/084/raymond-chandler-629_agents_if-people-could-deal-with-each-other-hon_1058989.jpg" --- > [If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/if-people-could-deal-with-each-other-honestly-they-would-not-need/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/084/raymond-chandler-629_agents_if-people-could-deal-with-each-other-hon_1058989.jpg) > [One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/one-would-think-a-writer-would-be-happy-here-if-a-writer-is-ever/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c88/raymond-chandler-629_happiness_one-would-think-a-writer-would-be-happy_67743.jpg) > [If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/if-you-believe-in-an-idea-you-don-t-own-you-it-owns-you/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84d/raymond-chandler-629_belief_if-you-believe-in-an-idea-you-don-t-own_2945929.jpg) > [If you don't leave, I'll get somebody who will.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/if-you-don-t-leave-i-ll-get-somebody-who-will/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a17/raymond-chandler-629_ifs_if-you-don-t-leave-i-ll-get-somebody-who_1108414.jpg) > [The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-dilemma-of-the-critic-has-always-been-that-if-he-knows-enough-to/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12c/raymond-chandler-629_authority_the-dilemma-of-the-critic-has-always-bee_1613816.jpg) > [The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-best-way-to-find-out-if-you-have-any-friends-is-to-go-broke-the/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cb/raymond-chandler-629_best-way_the-best-way-to-find-out-if-you-have-any_1401452.jpg) > [All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/all-art-at-some-time-and-in-some-manner-becomes-mass-entertainment/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/147/raymond-chandler-629_art_all-art-at-some-time-and-in-some-manner_1029436.jpg) > [They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/they-don-t-want-you-until-you-have-made-a-name-and-by-the-time-you/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a5/raymond-chandler-629_hollywood_they-don-t-want-you-until-you-have-made_579477.jpg) > [If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/if-you-re-not-tough-it-s-hard-to-survive-in-this-world-and-if-you-re/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/435/raymond-chandler-629_community_if-you-re-not-tough-it-s-hard-to-survive_3199126.jpg) > [I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/i-suppose-all-writers-are-crazy-but-if-they-are-any-good-i-believe/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/567/raymond-chandler-629_believe_i-suppose-all-writers-are-crazy-but-if-t_2304961.jpg) > [So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/so-by-all-means-let-s-have-a-television-show-quick-and-long-even-if/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37e/raymond-chandler-629_coats_so-by-all-means-let-s-have-a-television_2982326.jpg) > [In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/in-everything-that-can-be-called-art-there-is-a-quality-of-redemption-2/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8d/raymond-chandler-629_art_in-everything-that-can-be-called-art-the_851253.jpg) > [May I wish for you the knowledge...that marriages do not take place, they are made by hand; that there is always an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/may-i-wish-for-you-the-knowledge-that-marriages-do-not-take-place/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a22/raymond-chandler-629_break_may-i-wish-for-you-the-knowledge-that-ma_2430560.jpg) > [The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-motion-picture-made-in-hollywood-if-it-is-to-create-art-at-all/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa1/raymond-chandler-629_achieve_the-motion-picture-made-in-hollywood-if_289921.jpg) > [I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/i-said-something-which-gave-you-to-think-i-hated-cats-but-gad-sir-i/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/480/raymond-chandler-629_ability_i-said-something-which-gave-you-to-think_818454.jpg) > [I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/i-regard-psychiatry-as-fifty-percent-bunk-thirty-percent-fraud-ten/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/737/raymond-chandler-629_bunk_i-regard-psychiatry-as-fifty-percent-bun_1478142.jpg) > [I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/i-don-t-mind-your-showing-me-your-legs-they-re-very-swell-legs-and-it/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0da/raymond-chandler-629_big-sleep_i-don-t-mind-your-showing-me-your-legs-t_801325.jpg) > [It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/it-s-fairly-obvious-that-american-education-is-a-cultural-flop/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cae/raymond-chandler-629_america_it-s-fairly-obvious-that-american-educat_1995555.jpg) > [I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/i-m-a-very-smart-guy-i-haven-t-a-feeling-or-a-scruple-in-the-world/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adc/raymond-chandler-629_bucks_i-m-a-very-smart-guy-i-haven-t-a-feeling_1338723.jpg) > [Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/throughout-the-history-of-commercial-life-nobody-has-ever-quite-liked/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/037/raymond-chandler-629_agents_throughout-the-history-of-commercial-lif_953172.jpg) > [The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-motion-picture-is-like-a-picture-of-a-lady-in-a-half-piece/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/571/raymond-chandler-629_audience_the-motion-picture-is-like-a-picture-of_3066412.jpg) > [ Undoubtedly the stories about them \[hard-boiled detectives\] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/undoubtedly-the-stories-about-them-hard-boiled-detectives-had-a/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/415/raymond-chandler-629_action_undoubtedly-the-stories-about-them-hard_1748062.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Raymond Chandler > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/television-s-perfect-you-turn-a-few-knobs-a-few-of-those-mechanical/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/there-is-no-trap-so-deadly-as-the-trap-you-set-for-yourself/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/common-sense-is-the-guy-who-tells-you-that-you-ought-to-have-had-your/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [ “Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of \[The Glass Key\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/hammett-was-the-ace-performer-he-is-said-to-have-lacked-heart-yet-the/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/she-jerked-away-from-me-like-a-startled-fawn-might-if-i-had-a/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/a-good-story-cannot-be-devised-it-has-to-be-distilled/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/dashiell-hammett-took-murder-out-of-thevenetian-vase-and-dropped-it/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [ “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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/he-james-cain-is-every-kind-of-writer-i-detest-a-proust-in-greasy/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/it-was-a-blonde-a-blonde-to-make-a-bishop-kick-a-hole-in-a-stained/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/i-had-been-stalking-the-bluebottle-fly-for-five-minutes-waiting-for/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/a-three-piece-mexican-band-was-making-the-kind-of-music-a-mexican/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/mostly-i-just-kill-time-he-said-and-it-dies-hard/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [“The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-book-was-not-new-dates-were-stamped-on-the-front-endpaper-in-and/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/without-magic-there-is-no-art-without-art-there-is-no-idealism/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [“The homicide skipper that year was a Captain Gregorius, a type of copper that is getting rarer but by no means extinct, the kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-homicide-skipper-that-year-was-a-captain-gregorius-a-type-of/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/raymond-chandler/#itemlist", "name": "22 Ifs Quotes By Raymond Chandler", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Raymond 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