Best film noir movie quotes of 1946

Carmen Sternwood: You're not very tall are you?
Philip Marlowe: Well, I, uh, I try to be.

Cora Smith: It's my wedding present to him, but the way he wears it, you'd think it was a noose around his neck.

Alicia: Dev, is that you? I'm glad you're late. This chicken took longer than I expected. I hope it isn't done too much. It caught fire once.

Gilda: If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me "The Bar Nothing."

Lorna Roman: You don't get over three years of terror in one night.

Professor Charles Rankin: Murder can be a chain, Mary, one link leading to another until it circles your neck. Red was digging at the grave of the man I killed. Yes, your little man.
Mary Longstreet: You killed him?
Professor Charles Rankin: With these hands. The same hands that have held you close to me.