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

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

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.

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.

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

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction