The Long Goodbye

Marty Augustine:
[to Joanne] Look at that face. Is that a face for a magazine cover? The profile. You're beautiful, and I love you. I sleep with a lot of women; I make love to you. The single most important person in my life, next to my family. Is that right, Pepe? Huh? [smashes a coke bottle on her face] Get her out of here! [to Marlowe] Now, that's someone I love! And you I don't even like! You got an assignment, cheapie: find my money!

Roger Wade:
[on Dr. Verringer to party guests as Verrigner stands before him] You know, this son of a b*tch - let me tell you one thing about this bastard. He is the epitome of what's wrong - with this world - he really is actually, 'cause he pretends to cure people. Can you cure people?

Roger Wade:
Do you ever think about suicide, Marlboro?

Philip Marlowe:
Me, I don't believe in it.

Marty Augustine:
Your friend was a murderer and a thief.

Philip Marlowe:
That's a lie. I know he didn't kill her.

Marty Augustine:
Let me tell you something else. It's a minor crime, to kill your wife. The major crime is that he stole my money. Your friend stole my money, and the penalty for that is capital punishment.

[Augustine has found a $5000 bill in Marlowe's pocket]

Marty Augustine:
What's that?

Philip Marlowe:
A picture of James Madison.

Marty Augustine:
It's a $5000 bill.

Philip Marlowe:
I know.

Marty Augustine:
Where'd you get this?

Philip Marlowe:
A box of crackerjacks, came as a prize.

Philip Marlowe:
Nobody cares but me.

Terry Lennox:
Well that's you, Marlowe. You'll never learn, you're a born loser.

Philip Marlowe:
Yeah, I even lost my cat.

Philip Marlowe:
Excuse me, I don't see any Courry Brand cat food here.

Supermarket clerk:
Some what?

Philip Marlowe:
Some Courry Brand cat...

Supermarket clerk:
Could you spell that?

Philip Marlowe:
Courry Brand, C-O-U-R-R...

Supermarket clerk:
Oh, we're all out of that. Why don't you get this. All this sh*t is the same anyways.

Philip Marlowe:
You don't happen to have a cat by any chance?

Supermarket clerk:
What do I need a cat for, I've got a girl.

'Philip Marlowe:
Ha, ha. He's got a girl, I got a cat.

Roger Wade:
I tell you what we're gonna do, Marlboro. You're gonna take that goddamn J.C. Penney tie off and we're gonna have an old fashioned man to man drinking party.

Philip Marlowe:
Well, that's okay but I'm not taking off the tie.

Roger Wade:
What'll you have?

Philip Marlowe:
What are you drinking?

Roger Wade:
What I'm drinking is called Aquavit.

Philip Marlowe:
I'm drinking what you're drinking.

Roger Wade:
Well God bless you. I like to hear that. People these days go, "Oh, I want a little of this. Oh, and a little of that and a twist of lemmon." Balls!

[Marlowe is being interrogated. Green and Farmer watch from behind the mirror]

Det. Green:
There he is, a real cutie pie.

Det. Farmer:
He's a smartass.

Det. Green:
That's what I meant.

Det. Farmer:
Why don't you learn to say what you mean?

Det. Green:
He's the cutie pie, you're the smartass, you little honky bastard.

Philip Marlowe:
Listen Harry, in case you lose me in traffic, this is the address where I'm going. You look great.

Harry:
Thank you.

Philip Marlowe:
I'd straighten your tie a little bit. Harry, I'm proud to have you following me.

Det. Green:
My, my, you are a pretty a**hole.

Philip Marlowe:
Yeah, my mother always tells me that.

Dr. Verringer:
I apologize for this intrusion, Mrs. Wade, but your husband dislikes paying his bills. I'm sorry; in future I must refuse to accept him as a patient.

Philip Marlowe:
Well we don't accept you as a doctor, quack.

Nothing says goodbye like a bullet.

I have two friends in the world. One is a cat. The other is a murderer.