The Big Sleep (1946) · 54 quotes
Tied for 6th most-quoted character in The Big Sleep (1946): in 3 of its 54 quotes
Most scenes with: Philip Marlowe (3), Vivian Sternwood Rutledge (3)
How do you like your brandy, sir?
In a glass.
I used to like mine with champagne. Champagne cold as Valley Forge and with about three ponies of brandy under it...I like to see people drink...You may take off your coat, sir...Too hot in here for any man who has any blood in his veins. You may smoke, too. I can still enjoy the smell of it. Nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
You are looking, sir, at a very dull survival of a very gaudy life - crippled, paralyzed in both legs, very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider. The orchids are an excuse for the heat. Do you like orchids?
Not particularly.
Nasty things! Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.
If I did, she'd just suck her thumb and look coy.
I met her in the hall and she did that to me. Then she tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.
