Adieu, ma jolie (1975)

Partager la citation sur facebook [voiceover, opening lines] This past spring was the first that I felt tired and realized I was growing old. Maybe it was the rotten weather we'd had in L.A. Maybe the rotten cases I'd had. Mostly chasing a few missing husbands and then chasing their wives once I found them, in order to get paid. Or maybe it was just the plain fact that I am tired and growing old.

Partager la citation sur facebook [voiceover] The house itself wasn't much. It was smaller than Buckingham Palace and probably had fewer windows than the Chrysler building.

Partager la citation sur facebook [voiceover] She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

Partager la citation sur facebook [voiceover, to himself] You've been beaten up, slapped, shot full of hop until you were as crazy as two waltzing mice; now let's see you do something really tough, like getting up.

Partager la citation sur facebook [voiceover] It was one of those transient motels, something between a fleabag and a dive.

Partager la citation sur facebook [voiceover] I sparred with the night clerk for a couple of minutes, but it was like trying to open a sardine can after you broke off the metal lip. There was something about Abraham Lincoln's picture that loosened him up.

Partager la citation sur facebook [on being shaken by the lapels] Now wait a minute. I've been slapped, scratched, punched, knocked unconscious, drugged, and shot at, looking for your Velma, so quit trying to make a milkshake out of my insides, will you?

Partager la citation sur facebook [looking at the dead bodies of Moose and Velma] Moose never would have hurt her. It didn't matter to him that she hadn't written in 6 years. It didn't matter that she turned him in for a reward. The big lug loved her... and if he was still alive... it wouldn't matter to him that she'd pumped 3 bullets into him... What a world.

Partager la citation sur facebook Billy Rolfe: You're not a detective, Marlowe, you're a slot machine. You'll do anything for six bits.

Partager la citation sur facebook Moose Malloy: You a private Dick?
Philip Marlowe: No. I'm your fairy godmother.

Partager la citation sur facebook Philip Marlowe: What was she like... this Velma?
Moose Malloy: Cute... cute as lace pants.

Partager la citation sur facebook Lt. Nulty: [during an interrogation] All right, Marlowe, let's start again, huh? From the beginning.
Philip Marlowe: I've told you twice. Now, why don't I make it easy on all of us and tell you what you want to hear? This fairy hired me to exchange a necklace for cash for a friend of his. We drove out to the woods. I shot him. I buried the fifteen grand. I drove my car back to his place, walked fifteen miles back to the woods, knocked myself on the head and then called the police.

Partager la citation sur facebook Frances Amthor: I think you're a very stupid person. You look stupid, you're in a stupid business, and you're on a stupid case.
Philip Marlowe: I get it. I'm stupid.

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