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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
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
Look to the past to see what the future holds.
— Celia Conrad
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
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 novelschaps 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
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
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[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
Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.You'd better watch out, Chase. He's passed over to the evil side. — Stefania Mattana
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
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
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
