Best Raymond Chandler Lines
- It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. Beauty
- A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles) All
- To say goodbye is to die a little. Chaos
- I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man.… All
- Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder. Alone
- As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style. Expect
- I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first… Air
- A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. Afraid
- There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that. Art
- All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium… All
- All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its… All
- I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had… Coat
- Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end… Adding
- And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles. Barbed
- The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. Durable
- I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you… Bad
- I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. Detachment
- It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in. Bad
- A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the… Alcoholic
- We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can’t produce a… Average
- Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid Afraid
- I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling. Banshees
- Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with… Animal
- When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and… Apron
- Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that… Acquaintance
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