Dashiell Hammett quotes
Dashiell Hammett was an American author and screenwriter, known as a pioneer of hard-boiled detective fiction. His works, including "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man," greatly influenced crime literature and film noir. He is regarded as one of the most important crime writers of the 20th century. Here are 57 of his quotes:
Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down-from high flat temples-in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blonde Satan.
Dashiell Hammett
