The Maltese Falcon

(10 votes)   [on the Russians]
Christopher Boyce: They're just as paranoid and dangerous as we are. I don't know why I ever thought any differently.


The Falcon and the Snowman 1985

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(121 votes)   Joel Cairo: I am prepared to pay five thousand dollars for the figure's return. Do you have it?
Sam Spade: No.
Joel Cairo: But if it isn't here, why did you risk serious injury to prevent my searching for it?
Sam Spade: Why should I sit around here and let people come in and stick me up?
Joel Cairo: But certainly it is only natural that I try to save the owner such a considerable expense if possible.


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(117 votes)   Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation...
Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(116 votes)   Brigid O'Shaughnessy: He has a wife and three children in England.
Sam Spade: They usually do, though not always in England.


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(115 votes)   Sam Spade: [to Brigid] Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be!


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(114 votes)   Sam Spade: You killed Miles and you're going over for it.


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(113 votes)   Sam Spade: All we've got is that maybe you love me and maybe I love you.
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: You know whether you love me or not.
Sam Spade: Maybe I do. I'll have some rotten nights after I've sent you over, but that'll pass.


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(110 votes)   Brigid O'Shaughnessy: Help me.
Sam Spade: You won't need much of anybody's help. You're good. Chiefly your eyes, I think, and that throb you get in your voice when you say things like 'Be generous, Mr. Spade.'
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: I deserve that. But the lie was in the way I said it, not at all in what I said. It's my own fault if you can't believe me now.
Sam Spade: Ah, now you are dangerous.


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(108 votes)   Casper Gutman: I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(102 votes)   [to Spade]
Joel Cairo: No, no. Our private conversations have not been such that I am anxious to continue them. Forgive me for speaking so bluntly, but it is the truth.


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(99 votes)   Kasper Gutman: I distrust a man who 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.


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(98 votes)   Joel Cairo: You... you bungled it. You and your stupid attempt to buy it. Kemedov found out how valuable it was, no wonder we had such an easy time stealing it. You... you imbecile. You stupid fat-head you.
[cries]


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(98 votes)   Kasper Gutman: Well, sir, what do you suggest? We stand here and shed tears and call each other names... or shall we go to Istanbul?
Joel Cairo: Are you going?
Kasper Gutman: Seventeen years I've wanted that little item and I've been trying to get it. If we must spend another year on the quest... well, sir, it will be an additional expenditure in time of only... five and fifteen seventeenths percent.


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(87 votes)   Joel Cairo: I certainly wish you would have invented a more reasonable story. I felt distinctly like an idiot repeating it.
Sam Spade: Don't worry about the story's goofiness. A sensible one would have had us all in the cooler.


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(78 votes)   Brigid O'Shaughnessy: Mr. Archer was so alive yesterday, so solid and hearty...
Sam Spade: Stop it. He knew what he was doing. Those are the chances we take.
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: Was he married?
Sam Spade: Yeah, with ten thousand insurance, no children, and a wife that didn't like him.


The Maltese Falcon 1931

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website