The Maltese Falcon

AKA: The Gent from Frisco | The Knight of Malta

(1941)

The Maltese Falcon @ IMDB

Aug

2018

The lie

From: The Maltese Falcon

The lie was in the way I said it, not at all in what I said. It's my own fault if you can't believe me now.

Mary Astor (Brigid O'Shaughnessy)

#Lies

#Lying

#Government

#Politics

#Disbelief

Jul

2018

Cards on the table

From: The Maltese Falcon

Well, I think we'd be better off all around if we put our cards on the table.

Humphrey Bogart (Sam Spade)

#Honesty

#Negotiation

#Trust

Jul

2018

Don't be a sap

From: The Maltese Falcon

Aw, don't be a sap.

Humphrey Bogart (Sam Spade)

#Frustration

#Slang

Jul

2018

Bright Idea

From: The Maltese Falcon

Who put that bright idea in your head?

Humphrey Bogart (Sam Spade)

#Ideas

#Condescension

#Intelligence

Aug

2011

You're a close-mouth man? –No, I like to talk. –Better and better. I distrust a close-mouth man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

Sydney Greenstreet (Kasper Gutman) | Humphrey Bogart (Sam Spade)

File Updated: 2018-07-01

#Trust

#Talking

Aug

2011

High-handed

From: The Maltese Falcon

You're absolutely the wildest, most-unpredictable person I've ever known. Do you always carry on so high-handed?

Mary Astor (Brigid O'Shaughnessy)

File Updated: 2018-06-30

#Unpredictable

#Attitude

#Condescension

Jul

2010

The stuff that dreams are made of

From: The Maltese Falcon

What is it? –The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.

Ward Bond (Det. Tom Polhaus) | Humphrey Bogart (Sam Spade)

File Updated: 2018-07-01

#Philosophy

#Dreams

#AFI Top 100 Quotes

Jul

2010

Looking after himself

From: The Maltese Falcon

I do like a man who tells you right out he's looking after himself. Don't we all? I don't trust a man who says he's not.

Sydney Greenstreet (Kasper Gutman)

File Updated: 2018-07-01

#Attitude

#Trust

Apr

2010

Fool questions

From: The Maltese Falcon

Haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning, asking a lot of fool questions. –And getting a lot of lyin' answers.

Humphrey Bogart (Sam Spade) | Barton MacLane (Det. Lt. Dundy)

File Updated: 2018-06-30

Apr

2010

Other means of persuasion

From: The Maltese Falcon

Well, sir, there are other means of persuasion besides killing and threatening-to-kill.

Sydney Greenstreet (Kasper Gutman)

File Updated: 2018-07-01

#Threats

#Murder

#Persuation

Jan

2010

Dippy enough

From: The Maltese Falcon

My guess might be excellent or it might be crummy, but Mrs. Spade didn't raise any children dippy enough to make guesses in front of a District Attorney, an Assistant District Attorney, and a stenographer.

Humphrey Bogart (Sam Spade)

File Updated: 2018-07-01

Jan

2010

Likes talking

From: The Maltese Falcon

I'll tell you right out I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.

Sydney Greenstreet (Kasper Gutman)

File Updated: 2018-07-01

#Talking

Oct

2009

No place for you in our plan

From: The Maltese Falcon

There's no place for you in our plan, sir. So we decided to spare ourselves any possible embarrassment.

Sydney Greenstreet (Kasper Gutman)

File Updated: 2018-07-01

#Embarrassment

#Insult

#Plans

Oct

2009

I won't play the sap for you

From: The Maltese Falcon

I won't play the sap for you.

Humphrey Bogart (Sam Spade)

File Updated: 2018-07-01

#Stupidity

#Fall Guy

Aug

2009

You worry me

From: The Maltese Falcon

Look at me, Sam. You worry me. You always think you know what you're doing, but you're too slick for your own good. Some day you're going to find it out.

Lee Patrick (Effie Perine)

File Updated: 2018-06-30

Aug

2009

You're very good

From: The Maltese Falcon

(chuckles) You're good. You're very good.

Humphrey Bogart (Sam Spade)

File Updated: 2018-06-30

#Work

#Compliments

#Good

Jul

2009

Person you pretend to be

From: The Maltese Falcon

You, uh... You aren't exactly the sort of a person you pretend to be, are you?

Humphrey Bogart (Sam Spade)

File Updated: 2018-06-30

Jul

2009

You bloated idiot!

From: The Maltese Falcon

You... You imbecile! You bloated idiot!

Peter Lorre (Joel Cairo)

File Updated: 2018-07-01

Jun

2009

I've been bad

From: The Maltese Falcon

I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad. Worse than you could know. –Now that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.