Detective Quote by Raymond Chandler Download Open image ““Don't kid yourself. You're a dirty low-down detective. Kiss me.”” — Raymond Chandler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detective Detective Kiss Dirty Dirty Low Low Detective
“You're like a rebellious child! Huh? You always treat me like a kid, but you're a kid yourself!” — Peach-Pit Copy Share Image
“Level with you child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.” — Mary MacCracken Copy Share Image
“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
“It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“You city boys and your psychologists. Just what we need, some fancy-pants lollygaggin' around telling us all how we need to get in touch… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
“The first time we met I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Whoa! Hey, what are you doing? I'm attaching myself to you. Because I'm a kid. Spoil me.” — Peach-Pit Copy Share Image
“Maybe he wasn't the boy next door, maybe he wasn't even a real boy, but holy smokes, did he know how to kiss.” — Trinity Faegen Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They… — Raymond Chandler 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
The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind… — Ben Aaronovitch 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
Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers.… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P. D. James 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
Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“My motto? Don’t trust someone who is just as cagey as yourself." "What kind of detective are you?” “A lousy one and proud of… — Peggy A. Edelheit Copy Share Image
“...you cannot enter into an investigation with a philosophy that dictates the outcome. Objectivity is paramount; this is the first principle of detective work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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