"[to Kasper Gutman] You! It’s you who bungled it! You and your stupid attempt to buy it! You ... you imbecile! You bloated idiot! You stupid fat-head, you!"

"Fake! It’s a phony! It—it’s lead! It’s lead! It’s a fake!"

"Well, Wilmer, I'm sorry indeed to lose you, but I want you to know I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. Well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese falcon. When you're young, you simply don't understand these things."

"[to Brigid O'Shaughnessy] You won’t need much of anybody’s help. You’re good. It’s chiefly your eyes, I think, and that throb you get in your voice when you say things like ‘Be generous, Mr. Spade.’"

"[to Brigid O'Shaughnessy] You’re good. You’re very good."

"[to Brigid O'Shaughnessy] This isn’t the spot for the school girl act. The pair of us are sitting under the gallows."

"[to Brigid O'Shaughnessy] Miles hadn't many brains, but he had too many years of experience as a detective to be caught like that, by a man he was shadowing, up a blind alley with his gun tucked away in his hip and his overcoat buttoned. [Long pause, then, slowly] But he would have gone up there with you, Angel. He was just dumb enough for that. He'd have looked you up and down and licked his lips and gone, grinning from ear to ear."

"[to Effie Perine] You're a good man, sister."

"[to Cairo] When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it."

"My guess might be excellent or it might be crummy, but Mrs. Spade didn't raise any children dippy enough to make guesses in front of a district attorney, and an assistant district attorney, and a stenographer."

"We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss O'Shaughnessy; we believed your two hundred dollars...I mean, you paid us more than if you'd been telling us the truth, and enough more to make it all right."

"Johnny, why don't you get rid of the grief you got for that blonde, whoever she is? Every mile we go, you sweat worse with the same pain. Didn't I tell you all females are the same with their faces washed?"

"Ray Teal - Motorcycle Cop"

"Ruby Dandridge - Mabel"

"William Forrest - Lt. Col. Simpson"

"George Chandler - Bartender Louis Ord"

"James Bell - Father Logan"

"Wallace Ford - McGee"

"Marvin Miller - Krause"

"William Prince - Sgt. Johnny Drake"

"Charles Cane - Lt. Kincaid"

"Morris Carnovsky - Martinelli"

"Lizabeth Scott - Coral "Dusty"/"Mike" Chandler"

"Humphrey Bogart - Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock"

"There's no compromise here."

"There never was a Bogart like this... and here's the reason..."

"You can't push me around!"

"He Doesn't Trust Anyone...Especially Women!"

"Martinelli: You place me in an extremely distasteful position, Mr. Murdock. Brutality has always revolted me."

"You know, you do awful good. I came here to - but go ahead. Put Christmas in your eyes and keep your voice low. Tell me about paradise and all the things I'm missing. I haven't had a good laugh since before Johnny was murdered."

"[on the phone] Whattya mean, am I checkin' up on you? Of course. I am. I forgot to tell you, I don't trust anybody - especially women!"

"I'm the brass-knucks-in-the-teeth-to-dance-time type."

"There's something about that big lug I didn't like. Maybe it's calling me friend."

"[referring to two war souvenir hand grenades] If I were you, I'd turn 'em in to Army Ordnance. You start coughin' too hard with one of them in your hand, there'll be nothing left but the gold in your teeth... if it don't melt!"

"I remember there was a whiff of jasmine just before I was knocked out. Maybe, maybe it was her. Suddenly I got a feeling I know it was. Jasmine."

"I didn’t like the feeling I had about her - the way I wanted to put my hand on her arm, the way I kept smelling that jasmine in her hair, the way I kept hearing that song she'd sung. Yeah, I was walking into something, alright."

"I hated every part of her but I couldn't figure her out yet. I wanted to see her the way Johnny had. I wanted to hear that song of hers with Johnny's ears. Maybe she was alright. And maybe Christmas comes in July. But I didn't believe it."

"Chester: That's the way I wanna see you go, Bigelow... nice and slow."

"Laurette Luez - Marla Rakubian"

"Neville Brand - Chester"

"Beverly Garland - Miss Foster"

"Henry Hart - Stanley Philips"

"William Ching - Halliday"

"Lynn Baggett - Mrs. Philips"

"Luther Adler - Majak"

"Pamela Britton - Paula Gibson"

"Edmond O'Brien - Frank Bigelow"

"Majak: He's not afraid. You can tell from a man's eyes when he is afraid. Look at his eyes."

"Maybe you do need this week away alone. Maybe we both do. I know what's going on inside of you, Frank. You're just like any other man, only a little more so. You have a feeling of being trapped, hemmed in, and you don't know whether or not you like it."