Dashiell Hammett Quotes

No one shall strike or caress a child.

How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show.

England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

I don't want to get punched all my life.

My father used to beat me with his belt...while it was still on him.

I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.

My mother was the most wicked mother ever seen in life when it came to beating. Oh-la-la! Every time I would say, 'This is the end of me.' Oh, how she would beat me.

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.

My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.

Beat him until there’s no skin left on his back. If he passes out, wake him and beat him again. (Father) Love you, too, Father. (Acheron)

I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often," Said Rhys "he seems to like it

Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

All you did was wreck my bed and in the morning kick me in the head.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

I punched my mother out once.

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.