9 quotes
"A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit."
The Thin Man (1929)
"She keeps trying and you’ve got to be careful or you’ll find yourself believing her, not because she seems to be telling the truth, but simply because you’re tired of disbelieving her."
The Thin Man (1929)
She was a big-boned, full-fleshed, red-haired woman of perhaps twenty-eight, handsome in a rather brutal, sloppy way.
The Thin Man (1934)
"You got types?"
"Only you, darling-lanky brunettes with wicked jaws."
The Thin Man (1929)
"How do you feel?"
"Terrible. I must have gone to bed sober."
The Thin Man (1929)
"That’s why I don’t very often drink, or even smoke. I want to try cocaine, though because that’s suppose to sharpen the brain, isn’t it?"
The Thin Man (1929)
"The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two."
The Thin Man (1929)
"Tall-over six feet-and one of the thinnest men I’ve ever seen. He must be about fifty now and his hair was almost white when I knew him.Usually needs a haircut, ragged brindle mustache, bites his fingernails." I pushed the dog away to reach for my drink.
The Thin Man (1929)
Most people—even women—get discouraged after you've caught them in the third or fourth straight lie and fall back on either the truth or silence, but not Mimi. She keeps trying and you've got to be careful or you'll find yourself believing her, not because she seems to be telling the truth, but simply because you're tired of disbelieving her.
The Thin Man (1934)