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The Thin Man QUOTES

The Thin Man QUOTES

1 " She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn’t like you.” She turned to the outer door. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

2 " 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. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

3 " How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?
Why don't you stay sober today?
We didn't come to New York to stay sober. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

4 " The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

5 " Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

6 " I said: "All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant and I don't want the child to be born with... "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

7 " He opened the door wider. "He's waiting." He gave me what was probably meant to be a significant wink, but a corner of his mouth moved more than his eye did and the result was a fairly startling face. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

8 " But besides, I haven't the time, I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

9 " ...It's probably polite to pretend you don't see people coming out of pawnshops, anyhow. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

10 " How do you feel?" "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

11 " ...Our friend Nunheim was filled full of .32s just about an hour after he copped the sneak on us - deader'n hell. The pills look like they come from the same gun that cut down the Wolf dame. The experts are matching 'em up now. I guess he wishes he'd stayed and talked to us. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

12 " But besides I haven’t the time: I’m too busy trying to see that you don’t lose any of the money I married you for.” I kissed her. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

13 " She's cute, but she's cuckoo. She wouldn't be his daughter if she wasn't. You can't tell how much of what she says is what she thinks. And you can't tell how much of what she thinks ever really happened. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

14 " It was his wife we objected to. Her name was Leda, but he called her Tip. She was very small and her hair, eyes, and skin, though naturally of different shades, were all muddy. She seldom sat- she perched on things - and liked to cock her head a little to one side. Nora had a theory that once when Edge opened an antique grave, Tip ran out of it,... "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

15 " ...What do people think about my staying with Harrison with him chasing everything that's hot and hollow? "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

16 " That's Mama, divorces a lunatic and marries a gigolo. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

17 " The chief thing,” I advised them, “is not to let her tire you out. When you catch her in a lie, she admits it and gives you another lie to take its place and, when you catch her in that one, admits it and gives you still another, and so on. Most people—even women—get discouraged after you’ve caught them in the third or fourth straight lie and fall back on either the truth or silence, but not Mimi. She keeps trying and you’ve got to be careful or you’ll find yourself believing her, not because she seems to be telling the truth, but simply because you’re tired of disbelieving her. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

18 " What was that joke about a guy being so thin he had to stand in the same place twice to throw a shadow? "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

19 " She's being stupid and she's sure she's being very clever, and that's a nuisance, but I don't think I hate her. "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man

20 " he was a roly-poly elderly man with a stoop and a waddle— "

― Dashiell Hammett , The Thin Man