“Il risultato dei programmi fatti con cura è sempre scambiato per fortuna dai cretini.”
Origine: Da Il bacio della violenza.
Samuel Dashiell Hammett è stato uno scrittore statunitense, autore di racconti e romanzi giallo-polizieschi.
“Il risultato dei programmi fatti con cura è sempre scambiato per fortuna dai cretini.”
Origine: Da Il bacio della violenza.
“Il pensiero è una cosa che ti dà le vertigini.”
Origine: Da Il bacio della violenza. Citato in Dizionario delle citazioni, a cura di Italo Sordi, BUR, 1992. ISBN 14603-X
“Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”
Origine: Red Harvest
“He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.”
Origine: The Maltese Falcon
“"How do you feel?"
"Terrible. I must have gone to bed sober."”
Nora & Nick
Origine: The Thin Man (1929)
“"You got types?"
"Only you, darling-lanky brunettes with wicked jaws."”
Nora & Nick
Origine: The Thin Man (1929)
“I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.”
Origine: Red Harvest
“My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.”
Origine: The Maltese Falcon
“He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.”
Origine: The Maltese Falcon
Chap. 11, "The Fat Man"
Dialogue between the characters Kasper Gutman (the "fat man") and Sam Spade.
Origine: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Contesto: "We begin well, sir," the fat man purred … "I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. … Well, sir, here's to plain speaking and clear understanding. … You're a close-mouthed man?"
Spade shook his head. "I like to talk."
"Better and better!" the fat man exclaimed. "I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice."
“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”
Spade
Origine: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
“Emotions are useless during business hours.”
"Zigzags of Treachery" (published in Black Mask, 1 March 1924)
Short Stories
"The Cure" (unpublished story, first printed in The Hunter and Other Stories in 2013)
Short Stories
"Zigzags of Treachery" (published in Black Mask, 1 March 1924)
Short Stories
"The Assistant Murderer" (published in Black Mask, February 1926)
Short Stories
“"You’re a damn good man, sister," he said and went out.”
Spade
The Maltese Falcon (1930)
"The Second-Story Angel" (published in Black Mask, 15 November 1923)
Short Stories
“Our conversations have not been such that I am anxious to continue them in private.”
Cairo
The Maltese Falcon (1930)
“But where knowledge of trickery is evenly distributed, honesty not infrequently prevails.”
"Nightmare Town" (Argosy All-Story Weekly, December 27, 1924)
Short Stories