Sydney Greenstreet
(as Kasper Gutman)
Sydney Greenstreet
(as Kasper Gutman)
Kasper Gutman:
I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.
Sydney Greenstreet
(as Kasper Gutman)
Kasper Gutman:
I distrust a man who says "when." If he's got to be careful not to drink too much, it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.
Sydney Greenstreet
(as Kasper Gutman)
Kasper Gutman:
That's an attitude, sir, that calls for the most delicate judgment on both sides. 'Cause as you know, sir, in the heat of action men are likely to forget where their best interests lie and let their emotions carry them away.
Sydney Greenstreet
(as Kasper Gutman)
Sydney Greenstreet
(as Kasper Gutman)
Kasper Gutman:
These are facts, historical facts, not schoolbook history, not Mr. Wells' history, but history nevertheless.
Sydney Greenstreet
(as Kasper Gutman)
Kasper Gutman:
Well, sir, what do you suggest? We stand here and shed tears and call each other names... or shall we go to Istanbul?
Joel Cairo: Are you going?
Kasper Gutman: Seventeen years I've wanted that little item and I've been trying to get it. If we must spend another year on the quest... well, sir, it will be an additional expenditure in time of only... five and fifteen seventeenths percent.
Joel Cairo: Are you going?
Kasper Gutman: Seventeen years I've wanted that little item and I've been trying to get it. If we must spend another year on the quest... well, sir, it will be an additional expenditure in time of only... five and fifteen seventeenths percent.
Mary Astor
(as Brigid O'Shaughnessy)
Brigid O'Shaughnessy:
I do know he always went heavily armed, and that he never went to sleep without covering the floor around his bed with crumpled newspapers, so that nobody could come silently into his room.
Sam Spade: You picked a nice sort of a playmate.
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: Only that sort could have helped me, if he'd been loyal.
Sam Spade: You picked a nice sort of a playmate.
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: Only that sort could have helped me, if he'd been loyal.
Lee Patrick
(as Effie Perine)
[first lines]
Sam Spade: Yes, sweetheart?
Effie Perine: There's a girl wants to see you. Her name's Wonderly.
Sam Spade: A customer?
Effie Perine: I guess so. You'll want to see her anyway. She's a knockout.
Sam Spade: Yes, sweetheart?
Effie Perine: There's a girl wants to see you. Her name's Wonderly.
Sam Spade: A customer?
Effie Perine: I guess so. You'll want to see her anyway. She's a knockout.
Peter Lorre
(as Joel Cairo)
[to Spade]
Joel Cairo: No, no. Our private conversations have not been such that I am anxious to continue them. Forgive me for speaking so bluntly, but it is the truth.
Joel Cairo: No, no. Our private conversations have not been such that I am anxious to continue them. Forgive me for speaking so bluntly, but it is the truth.
