Damon Runyon Quotes

I always claim the mission workers came out too early to catch any sinners on this part of Broadway. At such an hour the sinners are still in bed resting up from their sinning of the night before, so they will be in good shape for more sinning a little later on.

He is without strict doubt a Hoorah Henry, and he is generally figured as nothing but a lob as far as doing anything useful in this world is concerned.

I do not approve of guys using false pretences on dolls, except, of course, when nothing else will do.

‘In fact,’ Sam the Gonoph says, ‘I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.’

Any time you see him he is generally by himself because being by himself is not apt to cost him anything.

‘You are snatching a hard guy when you snatch Bookie Bob. A very hard guy, indeed. In fact,’ I say, ‘I hear the softest thing about him is his front teeth.’