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

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

I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail