"The Big Sleep" Quotes

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.

The minutes took their time and crawled.

She had long legs and she was good with them.

The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right.

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.

I'm not all that drunk.

I'm too old for change. Don't want it. Couldn't take it if I did.

I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips.

You can have the courage to climb the mountain, or you can live forever as a coward.