Detectives Quotes

You see, but you do not observe.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

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

A really good detective never gets married.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I think like a detective.

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

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.

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