Top 49 Crime Noir Quotes
#1. I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it.
Sara Sheridan
#2. Flawed characters ... a ticking clock ... morally questionable acts on all sides ... moody, evocative art ... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!
Christos Gage
#4. And he's alone there, with the unconscious pilot lying a little way off for company, and some other guy he's never even seen, only spoken to over the radio.
He wants to sleep so badly - dying they call it - and he can't. Something's bothering him to keep him awake. ("Jane Brown's Body")
Cornell Woolrich
#5. The hotel was guest-friendly with hourly rates and had enough room to swing a cat, if it were a small cat and you wanted to swing it.
James A. Newman
#6. Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
Adrian McKinty
#7. I like two men, two guns that kind of thing, I don't do subtle.
C.S. Boag
#8. There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.
Steen Langstrup
#9. His fear-inflamed mind sent the control-signal to his finger-joint to fold back. The trigger sliced back. The blast seemed to lift the booth clear off the floor, drop it down again. A pin-wheel of vacancy appeared in the glass, flinging off shards and slivers.
Cornell Woolrich
#10. My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear ("Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!") signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window and there'd be real hell to pay.
Ed Lynskey
#11. You ever choke a man out with his own shirt?"
"What kind of question is that?"
"A yes or no one.
Todd Morr
#12. A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.
Raymond Chandler
#13. He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.
Andrew Vachss
#14. How the Hell is it we go to pick up Jenna Jameson and end up with the fucking chick from those Kill Bill movies?
Todd Morr
#15. I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.
Frank Miller
#16. A diamond wedding ring, you say?"
I studied his face. Was he putting me on? He looked earnest. "As any guy would expect, a diamond is what she's after," I said. "Did you hold out hope you'd get by for anything less?
Ed Lynskey
#18. It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.
Raymond Chandler
#19. It's time to end the brain drain and move to brain gain. It's time for a great mind of Nigeria to return home. You're the mind we need, Doctor.
Deji Olukotun
#20. May they run free forever and grow back their limbs!
Henry Mosquera
#21. Quote taken from Chapter 1:
That's the idea. Listen, Frank, this one is different. She's a keeper." He let that part gel in me. "Get your head screwed on straight and move to Richmond. You hate it living in Pelham.
Ed Lynskey
#22. Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man.
James Ellroy
#23. From Chapter 1:
"You're not a local." I paused, unsure. "Or are you?"
"Sort of. Randall Van Dotson is my dad. I'm Rennie."
After tossing her head that coy, sweet way girls do, she gave me a candid appraisal.
Ed Lynskey
#25. One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.
Roger Ebert
#26. In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin's roofline a bursting fireball.
Ed Lynskey
#27. I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
Raymond Chandler
#28. That pistol I gave you is a piece of crap. You can't hit anything with it, not at that distance."
Staring at her with tears in his blinking eyes, he says, "I did."
Conversation between Alis K and Willy
The Informer
Steen Langstrup
#29. You're a crime fiction writer if...The injustices of this world boil your blood. You become a fucking supernova. So you write.
Verge Le Noir
#30. She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want.
Richard Stark
#31. The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.
Henry Mosquera
#32. Foreign food isn't really my thing. I tasted whale once, and I was sick for a week.
Steen Langstrup
#33. There are criminals everywhere these days, you know. One might end up missing the police! Who would have thought that possible?
The Maid
The Informer by Steen Langtrup
Steen Langstrup
#34. Just the night before, a puma's howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn't get any richer than that.
Ed Lynskey
#35. Maybe these dreams of ours just floats away. Here we go again ... changin' face.
Randolph Randy Camp
#36. Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners.
James Ellroy
#37. She said to me, "I don't know what life is anymore, it seems mean to me. I always wanted to be a mermaid but I never saw the sea.
Renee Thebeau
#38. His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close with terror not dissipated but omnipresent, like God.
("Introduction")
Francis M. Nevins Jr.
#39. When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.
Richard Stark
#40. That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.
#ShadowofSadd #Books
Steen Langstrup
#41. When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no.
V.T. Davy
#42. Carrying a shotgun makes you less amusing.
Barry Graham
#43. Don't make a career out of underestimating me." - Claire de Haven
James Ellroy
#44. There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them.
Cornell Woolrich
#45. We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside a little fisherman's boat."
Johannes aka 'BB'
The Informer by Steen Langstrup
Steen Langstrup
#47. F***, some people are so determined to be good that it makes me want to puke.
Bruno Hanson in
In The Shadow of Sadd.
Steen Langstrup
#48. Lies are so suburban...But murder is nice and clean.
Carole Morin
#49. After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.
Brian Azzarello
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