Raymond Chandler Quotes

• She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Feel

• Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Critical, Thinking, Ideas, Destroy

• It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Advertising, Pretty, Human

• It is not a fragrant world.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World

• If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hollywood, Better, Book

• I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Least, Think, Principle

• I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn’t need a gun, you’d better take one along that worked.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Better, Need

• I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in God

  Tags in Guess

• I do a great deal of research – particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Particularly, Great

• I certainly admire people who do things.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Certainly, Admire, People

• He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Angel, Food, Looked

• Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Critic, Professional, Writing, Good

• From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Away, Like, Feet, Something

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fiction, Write, Writer, Everything, Need, Just, Little, Desire, Writing

• Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Advertising, Human

• At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Least, Seem, Solution, Mystery

• An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Except, Poetry, Literature

• Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intimate, Like, Magic

• Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Ability, Attitude

  Tags in Motivation

• A really good detective never gets married.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Wedding

  Tags in Good, Really, Married

Raymond Chandler (63)

Birth:	23rd July, 1888
Death:	26th March, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Screenwriter

About

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression.

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