More - Raymond Chandler Quotes

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

Raymond Chandler

 American Writer

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

 Alcohol And Alcoholism American Writer

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Raymond Chandler

 Glamour

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i

Raymond Chandler

 Fraud

Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.

Raymond Chandler

 Television

The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution form the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

Raymond Chandler

 Cinema

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Raymond Chandler

 American Writer Justice

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

Raymond Chandler

 American Writer Boston

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

Raymond Chandler

 American Writer

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,

Raymond Chandler