She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

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

You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

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

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

The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.