Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep Quotes

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.

I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.