I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“It's a swell theory," I said. "Marriott socked me, took the money, then he got sorry and beat his brains out, after… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Newspapers are owned and published by rich men. Rich men all belong to the same club. Sure, there’s competition—hard tough competition for… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“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 Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
