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Spade Quotes by Dashiell Hammett
- When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was…
- Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
- Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you…
- Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the…
More Spade Quotes
- Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,… — William Cowper
- To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this? — Beverley Nichols
- All my hurts my garden spade can heal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel. — Herbert V. Prochnow
- To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think,… — John Ruskin
- The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian
- Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession. — William Shakespeare
- In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack… — Erich Maria Remarque
- It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never… — Oscar Wilde
- So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork,… — Celia Thaxter
- Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five… — Jeremiah Wright
- If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole… — Aesop