Philip Marlowe: She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Philip Marlowe) in The Big Sleep

Philip Marlowe: Somebody's always giving me guns.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Philip Marlowe) in The Big Sleep

Philip Marlowe: You the guy that's been tailing me?
Harry Jones: Yeah, the name's Jones. Harry Jones. I want to see you.
Philip Marlowe: Swell. Did you want to see those guys jump me?
Harry Jones: I didn't care one way or the other.
Philip Marlowe: You could've yelled for help.
Harry Jones: If a guy's playing a hand, I let him play it. I'm no kibitzer.
Philip Marlowe: You got brains


--Humphrey Bogart (as Philip Marlowe) in The Big Sleep

Philip Marlowe: You wanna tell me now?
Vivian: Tell you what?
Philip Marlowe: What it is you're trying to find out. You know, it's a funny thing. You're trying to find out what your father hired me to find out, and I'm trying to find out why you want to find out.
Vivian: You could go on forever, couldn't you? Anyway it'll give us something to talk about next time we meet.
Philip Marlowe: Among other things.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Philip Marlowe) in The Big Sleep

Richard Mason: [on the phone with Lt. Egan] Hello Egan, this is Mason, somebody's been in my house tonight. No nothing has been taken, something's been added, the wedding ring my wife wore when she went away.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Richard Mason) in Conflict

Richard Mason: Doctor, I don't believe in ghosts and I don't believe in the supernatural. I don't believe that people live on in life after they left it. But I saw Kathyrn today or someone who looked like her.
Dr. Mark Hamilton: Where?
Richard Mason: Downtown. She passed me on the street, I followed her but couldn't catch her on account of this leg. She disappeared into an empty house.
Dr. Mark Hamilton: How do you know it wasn't Kathryn?
Richard Mason: Oh but it couldn't be.
Dr. Mark Hamilton: Why couldn't it be?
Richard Mason: Well if it was, why didn't she stop when I called her? Why didn't she speak to me?


--Humphrey Bogart (as Richard Mason) in Conflict

Richard Mason: Mutton? What's he getting mutton for? We're going out to dinner.
Kathryn Mason: We're having mutton tomorrow.
Richard Mason: I don't like mutton.
Kathryn Mason: I don't know why you say such a thing. I've seen you eat it a thousand times.
Richard Mason: A thousand times I told you I don't like it.
Kathryn Mason: Nonsense, it's all your imagination. You can eat anything if you put your mind to it.
Richard Mason: I don't eat with my mind, I eat with my stomach.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Richard Mason) in Conflict

Rick Leland: [comparing his gun to Dr. Lorenz's] Mine's bigger than yours.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Leland) in Across the Pacific

Rick Leland: [to Lorenz as they both view U.S. planes overhead] Any of your friends in Tokyo have trouble committing hari-kiri, those boys'd be glad to help them out.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Leland) in Across the Pacific

Rick Leland: Don't be an innocent bystander; they always get hurt.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Leland) in Across the Pacific