Maltese Falcon Quotes

#1. To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take the lid off life and let [you] look at the works.

Dashiell Hammett

#2. I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon. (Kasper Gutman)

Dashiell Hammett

#3. Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

Robert B. Parker

#4. Gutman smiled benignly at him and said: Well, Wilmer, I'm sorry indeed to lose you, and I want you to know that I couldn't be any fonder of you if you were my own son; but - well, by Gad! - if you lose a son it's possible to get another - and there's only one Maltese falcon.

Dashiell Hammett

#5. When hunting a Maltese Falcon, catch it, but don't scratch it!

Anthony Marais

#6. I certainly wish you would have invented a more reasonable story. I felt distinctly like an idiot repeating it. Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon)

Dashiell Hammett

#7. Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

Roger Penrose

#8. You're a good man, sister

Humphrey Bogart

#9. Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

Julius Erving

#10. When you get into the series, the progression is much different. You actually have breathing room and the chance to sit down with each actor, which was a part of our process, to talk to them about their pasts.

Josh Gad

#11. Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.
(Interview, Time Magazine, February 20, 2005)

Clint Eastwood

#12. In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

Moliere

#13. Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

Alexandre Dumas

#14. I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

Anthony Shadid

#15. Investment bankers do much of their business underwriting government bonds, in the United States and abroad. Therefore, they have a vested interest in promoting deficits and in forcing taxpayers to redeem government debt.

Murray Rothbard

#16. I wish I would die. I've thought those words many times. But it's a hard thing to say out loud. It's even scarier to feel you might mean it.

Jay Asher

#17. The happiest moment of my life happens once a day.

Suze Orman

#18. If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

Michael Arndt

#19. A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind.

Pawan Mishra