Sam Spade Quotes

#1. Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

Lucille Kallen

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Sam Spade is as gray as the economic skies over America and moves through the story as cool and slick as a Teflon cat.

Stephen Sullivan

#5. Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.
Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

Dashiell Hammett

#6. 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 actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere

Dashiell Hammett

#7. I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum

Dennis Lehane

#8. And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it." - Detective Sam Spade

Dashiell Hammett

#9. Jamie popped a handful of Skittles into his bottle of Grolsch. He took a swig and savoured the tangy sweets shrinking in his mouth. He glanced up at the pictures on the pub wall: Alexander Graham Bell, Busby the bird and Sam Spade. The picture of Bogart made Jamie want to put a fag in his mouth

Nasser Hashmi

#10. The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.

Pope Paul VI

#11. I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

Michael Kiwanuka

#12. You're a good man, sister

Humphrey Bogart

#13. Liberty requires opportunity to make a living
a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#14. The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process ?

Christopher Hitchens

#15. Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Miguel De Cervantes

#16. The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

Grenville Kleiser

#17. Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God.

Christopher Koch

#18. Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.

Philip K. Dick

#19. Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

Caio Fonseca

#20. I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.

Spencer Dryden

#21. That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.

James Patterson

#22. You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

Marian Keyes

#23. One thing I found out then was that pity is a form of love and, actually, its highest expression.
A Tale of Two Sisters

Isaac Bashevis Singer