110 Quotes About Detectives

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

Our detectives worked very hard on this, ... There was no smoking gun. It took a real team effort.

Literary critics make natural detectives.

I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.

In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

We very much look forward to working with Scotland Yard detectives to ensure that any possible technical or evidential obstacles to moving swiftly towards an indictment are removed -- hopefully in the next few months.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.