Noir Quotes

“You always know when somebody's dead.”

— Kevin Bergeron

“No whiskey, no religion, nothing.”

— Charles Willeford

“Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.”

— James Ellroy

“The Filipino houseboy was conscious now”

— Charles Willeford

I love noir, quite obviously.

— Laura van den Berg

“The rain fell like dead bullets.”

— Scott Nicholson

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.

— Robert Rodriguez

I grew up on film noir.

— Lynne Ramsay

Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.

— Leo Rosten

“By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.”

— Scott B. Smith

“The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you know who you are.”

— J.P. Bloch

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

— Dennis Lehane

I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible.

— Kim Ji-woon

“The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. Michel de Montaigne”

— Laurie Stevens

“Ever since I could remember, She was all that mattered.”

— James J. Caterino

“Jesus Christ,” she said. “You are just like him, a master of the fucking oblique answer.”

— Robert B. Parker

“Susan told me on the way out,” Hawk said, “how you been spreading your charm around town and now they ready to…

— Robert B. Parker

“Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The…

— Robert B. Parker

This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then…

— Stephen Graham Jones

So I grew up watching film noir, you know the classic stuff. William Holden, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, all those.

— Tony Todd

“There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with…

— Cornell Woolrich

I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.” #ShadowofSadd…

— Steen Langstrup

“The lady in the liquor store sold me a fifth of whiskey and the landlord’s name without taking her eyes off the…

— Andrew Cotto

I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing Sin City.…

— Frank Miller

“Evans made himself their spokesman. "Charlie and Joe," he offered. "Remember us? We brought a friend back with us this time." Girls…

— Cornell Woolrich

“Sandy’s face was very close to mine in the crowded room. She had a wide mouth and a lot of teeth. She…

— Robert B. Parker

I so love the smell of hatred and revenge. It’s the headiest of concoctions. (Noir) I personally feel that way toward blood.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“It was 10:45. Across the continent Susan would be putting on her makeup now, and spraying some perfume on herself and making…

— Robert B. Parker

“His fear-inflamed mind sent the control-signal to his finger-joint to fold back. The trigger sliced back. The blast seemed to lift the…

— Cornell Woolrich

I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You know, I love…

— Maureen Dowd

“Like too many men, Trahearne and I didn't know how to deal with a woman like [the girl], caught as we were…

— James Crumley

“Just inside the doorway he puts down the bags, motions her to stand by them a minute. He saunters out ahead, carefully…

— Cornell Woolrich

We have certain demons who are motivated by the smell of food. They tend to get rather violent whenever they smell it.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“There is a house above the world, where the over-people gather. There is a man with wings like a bird.. there is…

— Alan Moore

“Whatever you did, and whoever you killed, and however you feel about it, you have to judge all of that in context.…

— Robert B. Parker

“In Woolrich's crime fiction there is a gradual development from pulp to noir. The earlier a story, the more likely it stresses…

— Francis M. Nevins

“I put my arms around her and closed my eyes and put my cheek against the top of her head and stood…

— Robert B. Parker

“Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long…

— James Crumley

“The rain beat against the windows and against the tin roof of the hotel. It came down in hissing roars, then in…

— Elliott Chaze