Quote by Raymond Chandler
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. – Raymond Chandler

Other quotes by Raymond Chandler

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. – Raymond Chandler

Read Quote

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Society
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Attitude
category

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Attitude

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades. – Florence Kelley

Category:
Attitude

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. – Thornton Wilder

Category:
Attitude

We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice. – Lawrence Eagleburger

Category:
Attitude

Random Quotes

The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren’t enough. – Amy Weintraub

Category:
Yoga

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And its not by design. The United States dominates because its the biggest market. – Norman Spinrad

Category:
design

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples. – Juvenal

Category:
Example

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, theyve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice. – Tim Pawlenty

Category:
Freedom