Quote by P.G. Wodehouse Download Open image ““He was really only a sort of detective, a species”” — P.G. Wodehouse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He was a detective, but he didn’t detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken, every time.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“She was so far from his type she might as well have been another species.” — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“I had chosen to play the detective—and if there is one thing that unites all the detectives I've ever read about, it's their inherent… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any environment I… — M.B. Wilmot Copy Share Image
“I came across a man in Belgium once, a very famous detective, and he quite inflamed me. He was a marvellous little fellow. He… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Good morning, mademoiselle. Yes, it is as you say. You now behold a detective—a great detective, I may say—in the act of detecting!” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“He has considerable gifts himself. He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Love, Miss Halliday, is a delicate plant. It needs tending, nurturing, assiduous fostering. This cannot be done by throwing the breakfast bacon at a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“In these days in which we live, when existence has become a thing of infinite complexity and fate, if it slips us a bit… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don’t know?’ ‘I couldn’t say, sir.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Ask the first lion cub you meet, and it will tell you that, once you’ve tasted blood, there is no pulling up, and it’s… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He will lunch with you at your flat tomorrow at one-thirty. Please remember that he drinks no wine, strongly disapproves of smoking, and can… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Too often on such occasions one feels, as I feel so strongly with regard to poor old Stilton, that the kindly thing to do… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“My late Uncle Henry, you see, was by way of being the blot on the Wooster escutcheon. An extremely decent chappie personally, and one… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“...he switched on the [flashlight]. When he did so, he instantly became the center attraction to a rowdy mob of those gnats, moths, and… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Conversationally, I am like a clockwork toy. I have to be set going.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“One of the advantages a sister has when arguing with a brother is that she is under no obligation to be tactful. If she… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Liz," said Mr. Cootes, lost in admiration, "when it comes to doping out a scheme, you're the snake's eyebrows!” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
