Top Detectives Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Detectives quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Frank Smith
It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy are all instances of inductive reasoning. (Detectives typically induce, rather than deduce.) None of these things can be done separately from each other, or from anything else. They are pseudo-categories.
- Frank Smith
Collection: Detectives
Image of Sushant Singh Rajput
Filmmaking is all about what we like to do on-screen. We have attempted that in the film. I have worked very hard to perform the character.
- Sushant Singh Rajput
Collection: Detectives
Image of Emmett Shear
The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode.
- Emmett Shear
Collection: Detectives
Image of Charley Pride
A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.
- Charley Pride
Collection: Detectives
Image of Bertrand Russell
In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.
- Bertrand Russell
Collection: Detectives
Image of Tess Gerritsen
She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.
- Tess Gerritsen
Collection: Detectives
Image of Raymond Chandler
You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
- Raymond Chandler
Collection: Detectives
Image of A. S. Byatt
Literary critics make natural detectives.
- A. S. Byatt
Collection: Detectives
Image of Michelle Monaghan
I found out a few months after we started [True Detective] that I was pregnant.
- Michelle Monaghan
Collection: Detectives
Image of Colin Farrell
I never once regretted doing "True Detective".
- Colin Farrell
Collection: Detectives
Image of Douglas Adams
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.
- Douglas Adams
Collection: Detectives