Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were... priests in the temple of Solomon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Agnes: A half-smart guy, that's what I always draw. Never once a man who's smart all the way around the course. Never once. P...hilip Marlowe: I hurt you much, sugar? Agnes: You and every other man I've ever met.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Carmen: You're cute. I like you. Philip Marlowe: What you see is nothing. I got a Balinese dancing girl tattooed across my ch...est.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Vivian Rutledge: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. I like to see them work out a little first. See if they're front ...runners or come from behind. Philip Marlowe: Find out mine? Vivian Rutledge: I think so. Philip Marlowe: Go ahead. Vivian Rutledge: I'd say you don't like to be rated. You like to get in front, open up a lead, take a little breather in the back stretch, and, then, come home free. Philip Marlowe: You don't like to be rated yourself. Vivian Rutledge: I haven't met anyone yet that could do it. Any suggestions? Philip Marlowe: I can't tell till I've seen you over a distance of ground. You've got a touch of class, but I don't know how ... how far you can go. Vivian Rutledge: A lot depends on who's in the saddle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Vivian Rutledge: So you do get up. I was beginning to think perhaps you worked in bed like Marcel Proust. Philip Marlowe: Who...'s he? Vivian: You wouldn't know him. French writer. Marlowe: Come into my boudoir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The body Of... Benjamin Franklin Printer (Like the cover of an old book Its contents torn out And stripped of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost For it will (as he believed) appear once more In a new and more elegant edition Revised and corrected by The Author.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anxious to publicise and pay our dues Contracted here, we, Bernard Noel Hughes... And Philip Arthur Larkin, do desire To requite and to reward those whom we choose; To thank our friends, before our time expire, And those whom, if not friends, we yet admire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Marriott: I'm afraid I don't like your manner. Philip Marlowe: Yeah, I've had complaints about it but it keeps getting wo...rse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Grayle: You know, this'll be the first time I've ever killed anyone I knew so little and liked so well. What's your name? .../>Philip Marlowe: Philip for short. Mrs. Grayle: Philip. Philip Marlowe. A name for a duke. You're just a nice mug.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »