Marlowe Quote by Philip Marlow

“Nobody yelled or ran out of the door. Nobody blew a police whistle. Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement…

— Raymond Chandler

“I can just about promise you Philip Marlowe was never as dainty as I.”

— Sue Grafton

“...and, without once looking back, walk down the road through the forest. If the Germans want to shoot me, let them. I am too…

— Audie Murphy

“You snuck across my yard like a trained mercenary. Dressed in a black getup without so much as a pebble misplaced under your shoe…

— Jocelyn Adams

“I shut my eyes and turned them on my heart, As a man calls for wine before he fights, I asked one draught of…

— Robert Browning

“I had the whole road to myself, for no one was yet stirring, and I walked on, with a slouching, dogged gait. The gray…

— Herman Melville

“I came here thinking I was going to win this war and come on home in no time at all. Now I think I'll…

— Kirby Larson

“I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive…

— Donna Lynn Hope

“I said: "Dead end - quiet, restful, like your town. I like a town like this." Marlowe (talking about Olympia) in a short story…

— Raymond Chandler

“It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute…

— Iris Murdoch

“What a hell of a welcome. I’m sorry. But there’s so much still to do outside before the weather closes, and we have to…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Franky the Cop let me lead the way outside to the shed, staying a few steps back so that he could have time to…

— David Wong