Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel fo >>

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I >>

It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits i >>

Quotations about Heroes and Heroism

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and cl >>

One brave deed makes no hero. >>

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in >>

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid... He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.

Chandler, Raymond