Time Quote by William Ritter

“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”

— John Buchan

To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person

— Robert Kiyosaki

“He was really only a sort of detective, a species”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“...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

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

— Agatha Christie

“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

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

— V. S. Pritchett

“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

“Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Yes, Manda. You’re becoming a good detective.”

— Carolyn Keene

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

— Art Hochberg

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

— Jackson MacKenzie