[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.