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

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

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 side of his face three times savagely.

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

My BODY isn't flawed, your thinking is. #UniquelyMe

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.