It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. Raymond Chandler
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. Raymond Chandler
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. Raymond Chandler
The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. Raymond Chandler
However top lofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalise his right to earn money. Raymond Chandler
You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off. Raymond Chandler
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement. Raymond Chandler
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. Raymond Chandler
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective. Raymond Chandler