Quotes by Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead. — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
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 — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble. — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate. — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their ma — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in th — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
It's goddamned funny in this police racket how an old woman can look out of a window and see a guy running and pick him — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be."Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, eve — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the ed — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
So you shoot people," she said quietly. "You're a killer.""Me? How?""The papers and the police fixed it up nicely. But I — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country. — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elab — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep