242 Quotes About Detective

Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.

It was a peculiarity of Smiley's character that throughout the whole of his clandestine work he had never managed to reconcile the means to the end. A stringent critic of his own motives, he had discovered after long observation that he tended to be less a creature of intellect than his tastes and habits might suggest; once in the war he had been described by his superiors as possessing the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin, which seemed to him not wholly unjust.

I thought about addiction. It was a high that you were always chasing, something that you need as desperately as your next breath, something that consumes you entirely for better or for worse. For my father, it was gambling. For Victoria, it was worrying. And for me, it was Alexander Langley.

Don't let his gentlemanly airs fool you, Miss Porter. Alex Langley is one of the toughest men I ever met.

A chill cuts through the diner as the air conditioner kicks on, and I wonder if he's meeting someone by the shipping docks in Richside. It would be the perfect setting for those dark eyes that reflect the red, neon signs hanging above the counter.

Lacey Pinkerton. You can call me Lacey or some people call me Pink." "I'll stick with Miss Pinkerton." My shoulders drooped. "Right. Then I have no choice but to call you Detective Briggs." "Yes, that's what I want you to call me.

Murder and suicide aren't genetic,' Julia said, scoffing sandwiches in the Black Swan in Helmsley after their visit to Rievaulx Terraces. 'Nathan isn't predisposed to tragedy.' Jackson wasn't so sure about that but he kept that thought to himself.

Finding Jackson Brodie at the heart of this melee seemed par for the course, somehow. He was a friend to anarchy.

Morse, he knew, had the maddeningly brilliant facility for seeing his way through the dark labyrinths of human motive and human behaviour...