Famous Raymond Chandler Quotes

  • The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut. – Raymond Chandler

    The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut.– Raymond Chandler

  • You can make a lot of mistakes in just one lifetime. (I’ll Be Waiting) – Raymond Chandler

    You can make a lot of mistakes in just one lifetime. (I’ll Be Waiting)– Raymond Chandler

  • He didn’t know the right people. That’s all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country. – Raymond Chandler

    He didn’t know the right people. That’s all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.– 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 cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.– Raymond Chandler

  • Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness. – Raymond Chandler

    Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.– Raymond Chandler

  • But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. – Raymond Chandler

    But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.– Raymond Chandler

  • The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me. – Raymond Chandler

    The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.– Raymond Chandler

  • One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is every happy anywhere. – Raymond Chandler

    One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is every happy anywhere.– Raymond Chandler

  • One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is every happy anywhere.– Raymond Chandler

  • One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it. – Raymond Chandler

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