Private Investigator Quote by Val McDermid

“I have watched enough cheesy detective television shows in my young life to know that when one is presented with an inexplicable mystery, the…

— J. Lincoln Fenn

I worked for a private investigative agency briefly. I rarely had the opportunity to snoop.

— Lisa Lutz

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of…

— Twyla Tharp

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

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Shirley Jackson

I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.

— Powers Boothe

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

— Douglas Adams

“Has anyone ever in recorded history kept a box of Pepperidge Farm cookies for longer than three days?”

— David B. Feinberg

“I’m an investigator, my dear. Other people’s business is my business.”

— Brian McClellan

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

— Agatha Christie

“There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“...for me, being a detective isn’t just about solving a case. It’s about bringing a resolution to all the loose ends, and to do…

— Zechariah Barrett