Best Quotes by Dashiell Hammett (Top 10)

  1. The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
  2. I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
  3. He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.
  4. Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.
  5. My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
  6. She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.
  7. 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.
  8. The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.
  9. I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel...
  10. The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

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