Humphrey Bogart movie quotes

“I think I'll go to sleep and dream about piles of gold getting bigger and bigger and bigger.”
Humphrey Bogart - Fred C. Dobbs

“- Howard: We've wounded this mountain. It's our duty to close her wounds. It's the least we can do to show our gratitude for all the wealth she's given us. If you guys don't want to help me, I'll do it alone.
- Curtin: You talk about that mountain like it was a real woman.
- Dobbs: She's been a lot better to me than any woman I ever knew. Keep...” (continue)(continue reading)
Walter Huston - Howard
Tim Holt - Curtin
Humphrey Bogart - Fred C. Dobbs

“- Eddie Mars: Your story didn't sound quite right.
- Marlowe: Oh, that's too bad. You got a better one?
- Eddie Mars: Maybe I can find one.”
John Ridgely - Eddie Mars
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe

“- Norris: Are you attempting to tell me my duties, sir?
- Marlowe: No, just having fun trying to guess what they are.”
Charles D. Brown - Norris - the Butler
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe

“- Vivian: Do you always think you can handle people like, uh, trained seals?
- Marlowe: Uh-huh. I usually get away with it too.
- Vivian: How nice for you.”
Lauren Bacall - Vivian Rutledge
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe

“- Taxi Driver: If you can use me again sometime, call this number.
- Marlowe: Day and night?
- Taxi Driver: Uh, night's better. I work during the day.”
Joy Barlow - Taxi Driver
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe

“- General Sternwood: Do you like orchids?
- Marlowe: Not particularly.
- General Sternwood: Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men. Their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.”
Charles Waldron - General Sternwood
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe

“- Marlowe: Did I hurt you much, sugar?
- Agnes Lowzier: You and every other man I've ever met.”
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe
Sonia Darrin - Agnes Lozelle

“- Vivian: You go too far, Marlowe.
- Marlowe: Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he's walking out of your bedroom.”
Lauren Bacall - Vivian Rutledge
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe

“- General Sternwood: How do you like your brandy, sir?
- Marlowe: In a glass.”
Charles Waldron - General Sternwood
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe

“- Vivian: Why did you have to go on?
- Marlowe: Too many people told me to stop.”
Lauren Bacall - Vivian Rutledge
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe

“- Vivian: I don't like your manners!
- Marlowe: I'm not crazy about yours. I didn't ask to see you. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like 'em myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings, and I don't mind your ritzing me, or drinking your lunch out of a bottle. But don't waste your time trying to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lauren Bacall - Vivian Rutledge
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe

“- Carmen Sternwood: You're not very tall, are you?
- Marlowe: Well, I, uh, I tried to be.”
Martha Vickers - Carmen Sternwood
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe

“Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains! You know, you're the second guy I've met today that seems to think a gat in the hand means the world by the tail.”
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe

“I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you.”

Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“- Bill Stevens: What you want is a ghost writer.
- Joe Gurney: Nah no mystery stuff, just plain facts.”
James Stephenson - Bill Stevens
Humphrey Bogart - Joe Gurney

- Ebbing: It's a great pity, Mr. Donahue, that you and I should oppose each other. We have so much in common.
- "Gloves" Donahue: Yeah? How's that?
- Ebbing: You are a man of action. You take what you want, and so do we. You have no respect for democracy - neither do we. It's clear we should be allies.
Conrad Veidt - Ebbing
Humphrey Bogart - "Gloves" Donahue

“The hell with the hair on your head. It's the hair on your chest that counts.”
Humphrey Bogart

“Spence is the best we have, because you don't see the mechanism working.”
Humphrey Bogart On Spencer Tracy

“I'm a professional. I've done pretty well, don't you think? I've survived in a pretty rough business.”
Humphrey Bogart

“I was always the guy behind the guy behind the gun.”

Humphrey Bogart

“I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies — as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.”
Humphrey Bogart

“-Kasper Gutman: Do you have any conception of the extreme, the immeasurable wealth of the Order at that time?
- Sam Spade: I imagine they were pretty well fixed.
- Kasper Gutman: Pretty well is putting it mildly. They were rolling in wealth, sir.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman
Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“You know what's right and you know what's wrong. You know better, but you just won't do anything about it.”

Humphrey Bogart - David Graham

“If James Dean had lived they’d have discovered he wasn’t a legend.”
Humphrey Bogart On James Dean