A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I used to like mine with champagne. The champagne as cold as Valley Forge and about a third of a glass of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“The kid said: “I don’t like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don’t like them getting drunk… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Maybe I can quit drinking one of these days. They all say that, don't they?" "It takes about three years." "Three years?"… — 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
![“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key] is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote…” quote by Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/882/raymond-chandler-629_dashiel-hammett_hammett-was-the-ace-performer-he-is-said_20171.jpg)
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