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185 Detective quotes by 140 unique authors

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. — Errol Morris
Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1… — David Oyelowo
I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of… — James Patterson
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. — Dorothy L. Sayers
I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa… — Jill Scott
I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.' She's described as being like a small… — Jill Scott
It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the… — Patti Smith
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective… — Patti Smith
I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked. — Robert Winston
As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign… — Jonathan Winters
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted… — James Wolcott
In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old… — Kevin Barry
Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or… — Derek Landy
It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness… — Raymond Chandler
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know,… — Alan Moore
I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very… — Dorothy L. Sayers
They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all. — Cornelia Funke
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs.… — Agatha Christie
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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was… — Dashiell Hammett
Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s law firms who… — Chuck Palahniuk
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous. — Douglas Adams
It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs… — Karel Capek

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