61 Quotes About Private-investigator

Must have a lot of male customers to let her dress like that. Nice view.

Have my moments, Doll, have my moments.

So, Slade, the swearing, the poor english and everything else is just a facade. You're really quite a deep and intelligent man, aren't you?

But as I said, one day only has so many hours and I cannot do it all at once. Besides, the alcohol was already bought and paid for. It would be a sin to let it go to waste.

Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

People will forgive you for having Mob associates, but let them learn that you visit the stockyards every few nights to drink blood, and it's a pitchfork parade with torches followed by a hammer-and-stake party.

It was the kind of establishment that was not too concerned with their customers, just as long as they paid up front and did not mess up the rooms too much

It all came back to something I’d figured out once about the detective business. There were two ways to go along: underground or on top. I never found out which was best. Underground you had the element of surprise on your side, but it was harder to move around. On top you went everywhere, taking cracks at everybody, and everybody taking cracks at you. You had to be tough to play it that way. Well, I was tough.

Blood always excites me.