Detectives Quotes

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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

You see, but you do not observe.

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

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

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

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

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

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

A really good detective never gets married.

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

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

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

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

to keep believing in life, until you're sure of death, it's the way a detective should be." - Kogoro Mouri, Detective Conan

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

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

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

I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

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

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide is no better than a murderer himself. - Kudo Shinichi

A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

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

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

I think like a detective.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.

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

Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives.

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.

Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said.

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.

I like the idea of playing a historical detective.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

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

I never once regretted doing "True Detective".

Personally, I like those mystery shows. Ever since I was a kid I've been crazy about blood and detectives and murder. Maybe I was born with a silver knife in my back.

The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

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