Top Detective Quotes
A really good detective never gets married.
Raymond Chandler
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
Dorothy L. Sayers
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
Peter Shaffer
If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
Alain Resnais
P. D. James 
Lee Grant 
Charlotte Ross 
Sergio Aragones 
John Buchan 
Agatha Christie 
James Ellroy 
Marie Windsor All Detective Quotes
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
Dorothy L. Sayers 
60% of people like this quote
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
Peter Shaffer
59% of people like this quote
If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy
58% of people like this quote
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
Alain Resnais
56% of people like this quote
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
P. D. James
56% of people like this quote
The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.
Charlotte Ross
54% of people like this quote
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.
Hugo Gernsback
54% of people like this quote
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