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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Literary critics make natural detectives. — A.S. Byatt

They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me - Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives. — Usain Bolt

With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together. — Stephen Leacock

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics. — Hannu Rajaniemi

I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories. — Agatha Christie

I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it."

-Detective Thanet. — Dorothy Simpson

...never fully appreciated her before," he told us. "She's strong, like one of these women detectives in books, but kind and compassionate-- — Jacqueline Girdner

Where there's a will there's a detective story. — Carolyn Wells

He told me he was used to getting what he wanted. — Celia Conrad

I like the idea of playing a historical detective. — Eva Mendes

Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people. — Paul Guilfoyle

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for. — David Lynch

No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish. — Keith Houghton

It is always reasonably easy to get conversation going in a pub, and it will be a black day for detectives when beer is abolished. After — Dorothy L. Sayers

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. — G.K. Chesterton

As the greatest of detectives makes the greatest of criminals, a specialist in investigation is also a specialist in murder. — NisiOisiN

Look to the past to see what the future holds. — Celia Conrad

I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains. — Malik Yoba

Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture. — Will Thomas

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The detectives ransack the place with the passion of soldiers fighting a just war. — Aleksandar Hemon

The detectives who stayed positive, who carried hope in their hearts, were the ones most likely to have stamina. — James Patterson

Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail. — Stefania Mattana

Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer. — Mason Cooley

To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person — Robert Kiyosaki

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective. — Jo Coudert

We women have intuition," Barby said loftily. "I wouldn't expect you to understand. I can't imagine why there aren't more women detectives. — John Blaine

There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure. - Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2 — Stefania Mattana

You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off. — Raymond Chandler

Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn't look like the proper place for you, said Chase. — Stefania Mattana

The detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them! — Agatha Christie

My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer. — Bernie Mac

I found out a few months after we started [True Detective] that I was pregnant. — Michelle Monaghan

Someone in a novel, was he not? I don't take much stock of detectives in novels
chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. — Arthur Conan Doyle

But at that critical moment, detectives knew there was no way they could get to JFK in time from the hotel in midtown Manhattan. — John Solomon

Just calm down and think, sir. Think. Where is your wife? — Stefania Mattana

These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose. — Robert Orben

laptop that the detectives said contained her — Betta Ferrendelli

It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective. — Ingrid Newkirk

The name's Clem Williamson Snide. I am a private asshole. — William S. Burroughs

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. — Ralph Davis

In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical. — Mark Billingham

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective. — Michael Connelly

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters. — Kerry Greenwood

In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists. — Aaron Starmer

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask. — Jane Roberts

Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.
You'd better watch out, Chase. He's passed over to the evil side. — Stefania Mattana

It is no longer enough simply to solve crimes: We modern private detectives must also be able to come up with catchy names for our cases. — Alan Bradley

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth. — Mac Barnett

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on, but they're explorers. — Walter Mosley

The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode. — Emmett Shear

An unmarked cop car carrying Mitch Lawson and Brock Lucas, both detectives with the DPD. — Kristen Ashley

She is tolerable, I suppose, but not handsome enough to tempt our killer." - Mr Sherlock Darcy — Debbie Cowens

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel,
and the deader the corpse the better. — S. S. Van Dine

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art. — W. H. Auden

Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at. — Matthew McConaughey

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter. — David Coleman

People are like detectives in their relations, they eventually find what they are searching for. — Umut Kisa

Grace shivered even though it was hot out, because that's what detectives do in detective books. — Ella Minster

It is not easy to express the inexpressible, he answered with a laugh. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Unless your goal is to train your readers to be detectives, only the details necessary to give the reader an idea of the scene should be included. — Kat Duncan

I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do. — Shirley Jackson

How can I take crime shows seriously where the female detectives track killers in Louboutin heels? — Toni Morrison

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance. — Charley Pride

I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Amelia? Let's make sure we set some time aside every day for one another. We shouldn't bring our work home with us. Okay?"
She smiled. "Deal! — Linda Weaver Clarke