Hard Boiled Detective Quotes

“To catch the bad guys, you've got to think like a bad guy - and that's why all the best detectives have a dark side...”
― David Videcette, The Theseus Paradox

“Parker spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle.”
― Richard Stark, The Rare Coin Score

“Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.

Murder in the Dog Park”
― Jill Yesko

“My glass is not only half-empty, I'm convinced someone spit in it.”
― Judy Nichols, Sportsman's Bet

“Calvino remembered he had no food in the house and would have to go shopping on Sukhumvit Road. Then he planned to crawl into his bed and sleep, the kind of deep sleep without dreams or hopes, a sleep without regrets, without knowing or thinking how things got the way they are or how occasional fragments of decency escaped the forces of gravity.”
― Christopher G. Moore - Zero Hour in Phnom Penh

“He was too young to deserve a weight of the world sign like the one he expelled.”
― Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins

“You’ve made a wise choice, lad...I won’t insult your intelligence with the word ‘trust’.”
― James Ellroy, White Jazz

“I drove back to Hollywood feeling like a short length of chewed string. It was too early to eat, and too hot. I turned on the fan in my office. It didn't make the air any cooler, just a little more lively.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“Through his opened bedroom window, he noticed that the night sky had turned a crimson red. The moon, punctured by hues of cerulean blue, hung precariously over the withering willow trees that lined the riverbank, located several hundred yards away. The storm predicted by the forecasters was heading his way.”
― Oliver Dean Spencer, Call of the Nightingale