Detectives Quote by Emmett Shear

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Angus Cloud

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

— Jennifer Echols

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

— Tom Robbins

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know...

— Bohumil Hrabal

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

— Douglas Adams

“Be like a detective. See what’s going on around you.”

— Art Hochberg

“Are you going to be making a point any time soon, or are you holding up the game to brag about your detective skills?”

— Tarryn Fisher

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of…

— Kathleen Winsor

“if you find yourself playing detective with someone, you should remove them from your life immediately”

— Jackson MacKenzie

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

— Michael Moore