Raymond Chandler's Quotes

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Raymond Chandler

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

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It is not a fragrant world.

Raymond Chandler

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Raymond Chandler

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

Raymond Chandler

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

Raymond Chandler