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

If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.

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

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.

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

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.