Dashiell Hammett Men Quotations

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

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.

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel...