It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained…

← Back to quotes

Novel · Detective fiction

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.

Raymond Chandler

1940

★ 3.5

Other tags relating to this quote

Topic

Blondes Beautiful women Women

Genre

Medium

Time

Person

Provenance

Citation

Chandler, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940, ch. 13.

Related quotes

Other quotes that share a subject, a time, or a voice with this one.

So we think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America, Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.

Norman Mailer

1973

Another quote aboutTopic·Blondes

Being blonde is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blonde has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.

Madonna

1989

Another quote aboutTopic·Blondes

But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

Another quote aboutTopic·Beautiful women

Pretty girls make graves.

Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums · 1958

Another quote aboutTopic·Beautiful women

Alcohol is like love...The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye · 1953

Another quote byPerson·Raymond Chandler

Other media

Works in other forms that share a subject with this one.

Other media onSubject·Women

Book · 1949

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

Artwork · 500

Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies

Gu Kaizhi

Artwork · 1620

Judith Slaying Holofernes

Artemisia Gentileschi

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. — Raymond Chandler

Related quotes

Other media