Trouble Is My Business Quotes

“Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“Her eyes were wide-set and there was thinking room between them. Their color was lapis-lazuli blue and the color of her hair was dusky red, like a fire under control but still dangerous. She was too tall to be cute. She wore plenty of make-up in the right places and the cigarette she was poking at me had a built-on mouthpiece about three inches long. She didn't look hard, but she looked as if she had heard all the answers and remembered the ones she thought she might be able to use sometime.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“The room was empty. It was full of silence and the memory of a nice perfume.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble is My Business

“He opened the rear door and I got in and sank down into the cushions and George slid under the wheel and started the big car. It moved away from the curb and around the corner with as much noise as a bill makes in a wallet.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“She was sitting behind a black glass desk that looked like Napoleon's tomb and she was smoking a cigarette in a black holder that was not quite as long as a rolled umbrella.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“A doorman opened the door for me and I went in. The lobby was not quite as big as the Yankee Stadium. It was floored with a pale blue carpet with sponge rubber underneath. It was so soft it made me want to lie down and roll.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“The kid said: “I don’t like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don’t like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don’t like them in the first place.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“I wasn’t doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“I called him up from a phone booth. The voice that answered was fat. It wheezed softly, like the voice of a man who had just won a pie-eating contest.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“The elevator had a carpeted floor and mirrors and indirect lighting. It rose as softly as the mercury in a thermometer.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“I don’t like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don’t like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don’t like them in the first place.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“And I have been fortunate to escape what has been called “that form of snobbery which can accept the Literature of Entertainment in the Past, but only the Literature of Enlightenment in the Present.”
― Chandler Raymond, Trouble is My Business

“You’re a full portion of what I don’t like,’ she said. ‘Get out of my way.’ I didn’t move. She didn’t move. We were both sitting down – and not even close to each other.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“the colour of her hair was dusky red, like a fire under control but still dangerous.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble is My Business

“him.” I said: “Nerts! You seem to forget I know why Lou was killed.” Beasley sat up in his chair and moved his right hand”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble is My Business

“A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble is My Business

“The average critic never recognizes an achievement when it happens. He explains it after it has become respectable.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble is My Business

“drank a little more of the tequila and made a face. “Did anybody invent this stuff on purpose?”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“I was way past the age when it’s fun to swear at people you can’t hurt.”
― Raymond Chandler, TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS

“Trouble is my business,” I said. “Twenty-five a day and guarantee of two-fifty, if I pull the job.”
― Raymond Chandler, TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS

“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble is My Business

“She didn’t look hard, but she looked as if she had heard all the answers and remembered the ones she thought she might be able to use sometime.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“Trouble is my business,” I said. “How else would I make a nickel?”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“She was a tall, seedy, sad-eyed blonde who had once been a policewoman and had lost her job when she married a cheap little check bouncer named Johnny Horne, to reform him. She hadn’t reformed him, but she was waiting for him to come out so she could try again.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business