Sam Spade Quotes:

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

- Dashiell Hammett

source: Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.61, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: Mind, Trouble, Falcon, Film Noir, Sam Spade

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

- Dashiell Hammett

source: Dashiell Hammett (2007). “Vintage Hammett”, p.151, Vintage

topic: Crooks, Cheaper, Falcon, Film Noir, Sam Spade

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

- Dashiell Hammett

topic: Men, Organization, Differences, Bad Business, Sam Spade

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

- Dashiell Hammett

topic: Want, Cairo, Smooth, Spades, Do You Want Me

Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know. Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.

- Dashiell Hammett

source: "Fictional characters: Sam Spade, Brigid O'Shaughnessy". "The Maltese Falcon", 1941.

topic: Good Life, Innocent, Spades, Falcon, Sam Spade

You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a stunning job in creating a character with a voice and eye right out of a 1930s L.A. hard-boiled classic: guns and gams, booze and bodies, peepers and perps. Move over, Sam Spade: Kitty Pangborn is on the case.

- Linda Fairstein

topic: Jobs, Moving, Character, Spades, Stunning

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

- Lucille Kallen

topic: Loner, Female, Thorough, Spades, Kinsey