I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

- Dashiell Hammett

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

- Dashiell Hammett

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

- Dashiell Hammett

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.

- Dashiell Hammett

I like women. I really like women.

- Dashiell Hammett

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

- Dashiell Hammett

I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.

- Dashiell Hammett

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

- Dashiell Hammett

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

- Dashiell Hammett

She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.

- Dashiell Hammett

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

- Dashiell Hammett

Another man whose social life has ruined him.

- Dashiell Hammett

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

- Dashiell Hammett

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

- Dashiell Hammett

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

- Dashiell Hammett

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

- Dashiell Hammett

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

- Dashiell Hammett

With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

- Dashiell Hammett

I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.

- Dashiell Hammett