Famous quotes containing the words hammett and/or stated:
“When a mans partner is killed hes supposed to do something about it. It doesnt make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner, and youre supposed to do something about it.”
—Dashiell Hammett (18941961)
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of Wut, is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
—Sydney Smith (17711845)