Sam Spade Quotes

“Sam Spade, move over! In his years on the force, Tough Cookie Busted the Ginger Snaps and broke up the Macaroons.”

″‘We believed your two hundred dollars.’ ‘You mean –?’ She seemed to not know what he meant. ‘I mean you paid us more than if you’d been telling the truth,’ he explained blandly, ‘and enough more to make it all right.‘”

“I’ve thrown myself on your mercy, told you that without your help I’m utterly lost. What else is there?”

“Most things in San Francisco can be bought, or taken.”

“I’ve been bad—worse than you could know—but I’m not all bad. Look at me, Mr. Spade. You know I’m not all bad, don’t you? You can see that, can’t you? Then can’t you trust me just a little?”

“I want you to save me from- from it all.”

“And you know I’d never have placed myself in this position if I hadn’t trusted you completely.”

“Maybe you saw her first, Sam, but I spoke first.”

“He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.”