Detectives Quote by Raymond Chandler Download Open image “You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.” — Raymond Chandler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detectives Hats Hats off Tvs
Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
You dont have to be a detective, just to detect it. any man lie to your face how you respect it. — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat. — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion. — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head. — Carolyn Keene Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Few women have ever been able to resist the temptation to try on a hat and discover in the mirror a person they never… — Anonymous 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
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford Copy Share Image
Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting… — C.E. Murphy Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an… — Jennifer Estep 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
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of… — Agatha Christie 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
A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable… — Nancy McKeon Copy Share Image
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