. . . Quotes from The Thin Man (movies). . .
(from http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1336952-the-thin-man)
“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”
“Nora: "How do you feel?"
Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.”
“The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.”
“Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?"
Nora: "No, thanks."
Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one.”
“Nora said: "She's pretty."
"If you like them like that."
She grinned at me. "You got types?"
"Only you, darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws."
“Men came in and dragged us apart. It took us five minutes to bring Nora to. She sat up holding her cheek and looked around the room until she saw Morelli, nippers on one wrist, standing between two detectives. Morelli's face was a mess: the coppers had worked him over a little just for the fun of it. Nora glared at me. "You damned fool," she said, "you didn't have to knock me cold. I knew you'd take him, but I wanted to see it."
One of the coppers laughed. "Jesus," he said admiringly, "there's a woman with hair on her chest.”
"Whatever you're giving me," she said, "I hope I don't like it."
"You'll have to keep them anyway, because the man at the Aquarium said he positively wouldn't take them back. He said they'd already bitten the tails off the...”
"Charles isn't a Greek name."
"It's Charalambides," I explained. "When the old man came over, the mugg that put him through Ellis Island said Charalambides was too long...too much trouble to write... and whittled it down to Charles. It was all right with the old man; they could have called him X so they let him in.”
"Waiter, will you serve the nuts. . . will you serve the guests the nuts"
"Someone here to see you dear."
"That's good. I was afraid I would have to go to sleep."
"Nick. Nicky. . . "
"Yes."
"You asleep."
"Yes."
"Good. I want to talk to you."
"Nice food, isn't it?"
"Yes. It's the best dinner I've ever listened to."
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