Quotes by Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

Explore a curated collection of 15 quotes by Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

To say goodbye is to die a little. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
You like it in jail?""It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to? — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
You like it in jail?It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to? — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
You like it in jail?''It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to? — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
I'm killing time and it's dying hard. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die yo — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it and listened to the gr — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that p — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
He explained civilization to me. I mean how it looks to him. He's going to let it go on a little while longer. But it be — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
I like bars just after they open for the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny an — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatb — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye