I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

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

You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

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

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