It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.

— Raymond Chandler

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

— Raymond Chandler

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

— Raymond Chandler

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

— Raymond Chandler

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

— Raymond Chandler

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

— Raymond Chandler

Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...

— Raymond Chandler

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

— Raymond Chandler

She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.

— Raymond Chandler

She was a cute as a washtub.

— Raymond Chandler