Top 466 Detective Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'
I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.
'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.
Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.
I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.
The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.
I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.
Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade.
If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.
They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult.
I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.
That's all the Joker is. It's Batman without love. The Riddler is the opposite of that. It's the detective in him.
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.
I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.
A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.
Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!
The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.
I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.
If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.
You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
I found out a few months after we started [True Detective] that I was pregnant.
Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.
I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.
I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'
A guy like Bray Wyatt, he could easily have played something in 'True Detective.'
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
There are so many detective shows on television, aren't there? There's a real glut of grisly and violent ones, that aren't my cup of tea.
To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!
The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.
Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.
The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode.
I've always wanted to play a police officer or a detective, because I think if I wasn't an actress that is what I would want to do.
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head.
It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.
A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
I watch all the shows. From 'Breaking Bad' to 'Game of Thrones.' 'Scandal' and 'True Detective.'
I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.
I never once regretted doing "True Detective".
Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
