Sam Spade: If you kill me, how are you going get the bird? And if I know you can't afford to kill me, how are you going to scare me into giving it to you? Kasper Gutman: Well, sir, there are other means of persuasion besides killing and threatening t...
He was obviously on the wrong side of crazy.
A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
Sam Spade: You're good. You're very good.
Sam Spade: When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it.
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
Sam Spade: You killed Miles and you're going over for it.
Sam Spade: I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
Kasper Gutman: You're a close-mouthed man? Sam Spade: Nah, I like to talk. Kasper Gutman: Better and better. 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 judicio...
Sam Spade: You're a good man, sister.
Sam Spade: Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be.
Sam Spade: [to Effie] You're a good man, sister.
I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade
Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Kate Spade has great feminine classics and I love her bags. Designs by Rebecca Taylor, BCBG and Herve Leger are sexy and fun, and they work on my body.
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than from spades.
It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: He has a wife and three children in England. Sam Spade: They usually do, though not always in England.
Sam Spade: [after disarming Wilmer] This'll put you in solid with your boss.
