Contradiction Quote by Douglas Adams

“You're a cop aren't you? A private detective. Isn't that the same thing? The cops guarantee order. All I do is uncover disorder.”

— Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

“This is the last time I ever get a private detective off the internet.”

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Young Jeezy

I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

— Powers Boothe

“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

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

— Shirley Jackson

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

— Agatha Christie

“In traditional crime fiction every detective with any self-respect has an unfailing nose for when people are lying. It’s bullshit! Human nature is a…

— Jo Nesbø

“How do you know that?” “Maybe I’m a fucking detective,”

— Tom Robbins

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

— Mark Fuhrman

Once upon a time there was a physicality to the business of investigating a serious crime. There were objects, pieces of paper, even good…

— Steven Knight

“I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and nobody ever…

— Agatha Christie