The Glass Key Quotes

“When he awakened again he could stand, and did. He doused his head in cold water and drank four glasses of water. The water made him sick and after that he began to shake with a chill. He went into the bedroom and lay down on the bare blood-stained mattress, but got up almost immediately to go stumbling and staggering in haste back to the bathroom, where he got down on hands and knees and searched the floor until he had found the rusty razor-blade. He sat on the floor and put the razor-blade into his vest-pocket. Putting it in, his fingers touched his lighter. He took the lighter out and looked at it. A cunning gleam came into his one open eye as he looked at the lighter. The gleam was not sane.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key

“You might as well take your punishment and get it over with”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key

“You're not supposed to give people things unless you're sure they'd like to get them from you...[B]ut it goes deeper than that. when you give somebody something, you're saying out loud that you know they'd like to have you give -”
― Dashiell Hammet, The Glass Key