Detective Quotes

“You have bigger balls than some men I know.”

— Carolyn Arnold

“all. Detective Garland is retired.”

— Wendy Meadows

I never once regretted doing "True Detective".

— Colin Farrell

A really good detective never gets married.

— Raymond Chandler

I'm really into the detective drama genre.

— Karla Crome

“you were attacked by cement monkeys?”

— Tom Cook

“I’m Detective Mitch Lawson.”

— Kristen Ashley

“CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!”

— Ron Sanders

“In my experience, Detective, it's all middle game.”

— Michael Chabon

“You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.”

— Anthony Horowitz

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

— V. S. Pritchett

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

— James Ellroy

“Are you sure I’m the lead detective on this case? All I seem to be doing is watching you have”

— Anonymous

You dont have to be a detective, just to detect it. any man lie to your face how you respect it.

— Young Jeezy

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

— Jane Roberts

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'

— Nic Pizzolatto

No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I…

— Jennifer Echols

I hate that people are trying to detective work into my past, it bothers me... But it's, whatever, I haven't got anything…

— Angus Cloud

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of…

— Daniel H. Wilson

The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me…

— Charlotte Ross

“Sou detective particular, mas as provas não me interessam. Só as pistas. Porque só as pistas fazem sonhar.”

— Nuno Artur Silva

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“Ah ha!" the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. "The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!”

— Clare Havens

“Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70% of his dialogue with…

— NisiOisiN

“No private detective looks like a private detective. That's one of the first rules of private detection." "But if no private detective…

— Douglas Adams

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going…

— Ben Wheatley

I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give…

— John Nettles

I've actually published two compilations, if only barely. Hire a private detective and possibly you'll be able to locate them. One was…

— Stephen Hunter

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of…

— Elizabeth George

It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving,…

— S. S. Van Dine

“Honey, I was a Detective with Homicide for ten years and before that I boosted cars for a living. Trust me, I…

— Nina D'Angelo

“Criminal investigation has been loosely compared to many things, including the putting together of a jigsaw puzzle. It is seldom that simple.…

— Frances Lockridge

“Make no mistake, Elphaba, Goddess Magick was potent in the old days. During the Dark Ages the Catholic Church had their hands…

— Abramelin Keldor

A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations.…

— S. S. Van Dine

“My style isn't subtle, I know that. I'm sure in fact it violates all kinds of rules about interrogation and all that,…

— Kendric Neal

“Every detective has a certain kind of case that he or she finds almost unbearable, against which the usual shield of practiced…

— Tana French

“and therefore is a reasonable basis for interpretations and conclusions. 4. BEA involves three different kinds of examinations as part of crime scene…

— Brent E. Turvey

“I actually do have a motto,” said Heat. “It’s ‘Never forget who you work for.'" And as she voiced the words, Nikki…

— Richard Castle

“The two of them carefully stepped around the crime scene, picking up Nick’s arms, legs and organs, and brought them back to…

— Abramelin Keldor

“Pull yourself together, Detective. You're embarrassing yourself, and more imprtant, you're embarrassing me." "They're going to do it outside. In public." "So…

— J.D. Robb