Dashiell Hammett Quotes
- To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.
- With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
- Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.
- A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.
- I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
- Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.
- I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
- What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible…
- It's awfully easy to be in love in jail
- If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is…
- Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction
- You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.
- Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find…
- Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.
- You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.
- The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.
- I like women. I really like women.
- The roof might fall in; anything could happen.
- I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.
- It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.