Detective Quote by Anna Katharine Green Download Open image ““It is not for me to suspect but to detect.”” — Anna Katharine Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detective Mystery Suspicion
“There's a difference between suspecting a thing and finally knowing it for certain.” — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“Your suspicions are probably correct when you have an unsettling indication that something is not right.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“Of course it's very hampering being a detective, when you don't know anything about detecting, and when nobody knows that you're doing detection, and… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
“But I always find it prudent to suspect everybody just a little. What I say is, you really never know, do you?” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The only thing she could be certain of was that she existed. All else was suspect, even her own thoughts.” — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of having good intentions.” — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“You should never have suspicion about anyone in this world; not even if it is true. It is a terrible offence to have suspicion… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“It makes it so much harder, living in this atmosphere of constant suspicion, knowing everyone is spying on me, and none of you believe… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee? — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within. — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose. — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty? — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
“I am a comfortable sort of person when alone, and found no difficulty in passing this time profitably. Being very orderly, as you must… — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if… — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
“I wondered if I were glad or sorry to see it—if I were more pleased with his loyalty to his absent employer, or disappointed… — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own. — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
“When I saw the Twilight movies I thought being a Vampyre was so romantic. When my friends decided to be Vampyres it was so… — Abramelin Keldor Copy Share Image
“Stomach full of jitters, little beasts that were second cousins to guacamolians—little green monsters that wreaked havoc in your stomach.” — William Kely McClung Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in… — Mark Valley Copy Share Image
I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
“Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.” — Jane Sunday Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and… — James Marsh Copy Share Image
