Detective Stories Quotes
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Detective Stories Quotes & Sayings
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I don't greatly care for passes this early in the morning.
— Raymond Chandler
A three-pint problem
— Melvyn Small
Life is sad. Here is someone.
— Lorrie Moore
Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.
— Bruce H. Lipton
Detective stories are mostly bunkum ... But they amuse people ... And they're useful sometimes.
— Agatha Christie
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
— Philip Guedalla
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
— Agatha Christie
Where there's a will there's a detective story.
— Carolyn Wells
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
— Arthur C. Clarke
If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell
— Freeman Wills Croft
Animals have few rights, but they have every right to be here
— Anthony Douglas
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
— Rex Stout
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
— Caryl Churchill
Men read either the novels it is possible to respect, or detective stories. But their consumption of detective stories is terrific.
— George Orwell
I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.
— Ruth Rendell
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
— Tony Campolo
Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run.
— Dianne Harman
Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories.
— Elizabeth Savage
A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.
— Sherman Alexie
It's despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.
— Lara Biyuts
When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.
— Stephen Richards
We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.
— W. Reece Smith Jr.
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
— Marie Windsor
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
— Jeffery Deaver
He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.
— Jeffrey Toobin
I certainly feel a strong call of public service.
— Chelsea Clinton
Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.
— Dashiell Hammett
Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.
— W. H. Auden
Ah! Madame, I reserve the explanations for the last chapter.
— Agatha Christie
From what I've read of detective stories, inspectors always do want to drag the pond first.
— A.A. Milne