We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.

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

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

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.