–Haven’t you tried to buy my loyalty with money and nothing else?
–What else is there I can buy you with?
–Heavy. What is it?
–The stuff that dreams are made of.
–Huh?
–I haven’t lived a good life. I’ve been bad, worse than you could know.
–You know, that’s good, becuase if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we’d never get anywhere.
–Ten thousand? We were talking about a lot more money than this.
–Yes, sir, we were, but this is genuine coin of the realm. With a dollar of this, you can buy ten dollars of talk.
1) Keep on riding me and they’re gonna be picking iron out of your liver. 2) The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?
1): Haven’t you tried to buy my loyalty with money and nothing else? 2): What else is there I can buy you with?
A Welby-Forsby .45 automatic, 8-shot. They don’t make ’em anymore.
And you can tell the fat man I said so
Business should be transacted in a businesslike manner.
By Gad, sir, you are a character. There’s never any telling what you’ll say or do next, except that it’s bound to be something astonishing!
Don’t be silly… you’re taking the fall!
Give em the gunsel.
Here’s to plain speaking and clear understanding.
I couldn’t be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, it’s possible to get another. There’s only one Maltese Falcon.
I coundn’t be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you
lose a son, it’s possible to get another. There’s only one Maltese
Falcon.
I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and say the wrong things. Talking’s something you can’t do judiciously, unless you keep in practice. Now, sir, we’ll talk if you like. I’ll tell you right out, I’m a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.
I distrust a man who says ‘when’. If he’s got to be careful not to drink too much, it’s becuase he’s not to be trusted when he does.
I distrust a man who says *when*. If he’s got to be careful not to drink too much, it’s because he’s not to be trusted when he does
I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
I hope they don’t hang you, precious, by that sweet neck.
I hope they don’t hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. The chances are you’ll get off with life. That means if you’re a good girl, you’ll be out in 20 years. I’ll be waiting for you. If they hang you… I’ll always remember you.
I hope you’re not letting yourself be influenced by the guns these pocket-edition desperados are waving around, because I’ve practiced taking guns from these boys before so we’ll have no trouble here.
Look what you did to my shirt.
maybe not today
My guess might be excellent or it might be crummy, but Mrs. Spade didn’t raise any children dippy enough to make guesses in front of a
district attorney, and an assistant district attorney, and a stenographer.
Play it again Sam.
Show her in Effie, darling, show her in
six two and even
six two and under
Success to crime.
That’s what dreams are made of
That, Mr. Spade, is the stuff history is made of. Real history, not
that junk H. G. Wells writes about.
The best goodbyes are short. Adieu.
The lie was not in what I said, but in the way I said it.
The ornament is a statuette, a black figure of a bird.
We didn’t believe your story, Mrs. O’Shaughnessy, we believed your
two hundred dollars. I mean you paid us more than if you had been telling us the truth and enough more to make it alright.
We didn’t exactly believe your story, Miss O’Shea,
we believed your 200 dollars.
Well, I’ve had trouble with both of you before. And as far as I can see, my best chanceof clearing myself of the trouble you’re trying to make for me, is by bringing in the murderers all tied up. And the only chance I’ve got of catching them and tying them up and bringing them in is by staying as far away as possible from you and the police because you’d only gum up the works! You getting this alright,son, or am I going to fast for you?
Well, shall we be getting down to the hall?
Well, sir, here’s to plain speaking and clear understanding.
When a man’s partner is killed, he’s supposed to do something about it.
When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it!
When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it.
Yes, angel, I’m gonna send you over.
You killed Miles and you’re going over for it.
You’re absolutely the wildest, most unpredictable person I’ve ever known.
You…you bloated idiot!
You…you bungled it! You and your stupid attempt to buy it!
You…you imbecile!
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