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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ornament is a statuette, a black figure of a bird. I am prepared to pay on behalf of the figure's rightful owner the sum of $5...000 for its recovery. I am prepared to promise, to promise ... what is the phrase?--'No questions will be asked.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kasper Gutman: You're a closemouthed man? Sam Spade: Un, un. I like to talk.... Gutman: Better and better. I distrust a closemouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, Wilmer, I'm sorry indeed to lose you. But I want you to know I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. Well, if yo...u lose a son it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese falcon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sam Spade: You, eh, you aren't exactly the sort of a person you pretend to be, are you? Brigid O'Shaughnessy: Why, I'm not su...re I know exactly what you mean. Spade: The schoolgirl manner. You know, blushing, stammering, and all that. Brigid: I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad. Worse than you can know. Spade: Yeah, well that's good. Because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere. Brigid: I won't be innocent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man's partner's 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. As it happens, we're in the detective business; well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's, it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. Bad all around. Bad for every detective everywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wilmer Cook: Keep on riding me, they're gonna be picking iron out of your liver. Sam Spade: The cheaper the crook, the gaudie...r the patter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »