Amateur Detective Quotes & Sayings

Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education. — Frank Herbert

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective. — Chelsea Cain

Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features. — Shemar Moore

My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out] — David Wishart

When I was 8 years old, I knew what I was going to be - an actress. — Hattie McDaniel

Life is not like a murder mystery. In mysteries people always do the same thing. Then when some little thing is out of line, some wise-guy amateur detective makes big deductions. In real life, people don't do the same things all the time. They do different things at different times. In real life, people are crazy. — Isaac Asimov

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions. — Richard Le Gallienne

Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite Parker's admonitions, he was not always able to discount it. His mind had been warped in its young growth by "Raffles" and "Sherlock Holmes," or the sentiments for which they stand. He belonged to a family which had never shot a fox.
'I am an amateur,' said Lord Peter — Dorothy L. Sayers

What did he want? What did he mean he was in the right place? — Yawatta Hosby

I still feel like I haven't grown up. — David Duchovny

Eh, my dear fellow, order is wealth — Gioachino Rossini

I believe in finding a man who can be your best friend, because once the lust fades, friendship is what will hold the foundation of your marriage together. — Nicole Simone

The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man. — Weston La Barre

When you don't know what to believe, when you're not prepared to play the amateur detective, then you get tired and dismiss the entire business, you let it go, you stop thinking and wash your hands of the truth or of the whole tangled mess - which comes to the same thing. The truth is never clear, it's always a tangled mess. Even when you get to the bottom of it. But in real life almost no one needs to find the truth or devote himself to investigating anything, that only happens in puerile novels. — Javier Marias

Mr. Cupples came out of his reverie. "I think," he said, "I will have milk and soda-water." "Speak lower!" urged Trent. "The head-waiter has a weak heart, and he might hear you. — E.C. Bentley

the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains what happened to Ovid] — David Wishart

Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed. — Mary Louisa Molesworth

Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge — Jennifer A. Girardin

Of course it's very hampering being a detective, when you don't know anything about detecting, and when nobody knows that you're doing detection, and you can't have people up to cross-examine them, and you have neither the energy nor the means to make proper inquiries; and, in short, when you're doing the whole thing in a thoroughly amateur, haphazard way. — A.A. Milne

You say your life is unraveling. Your life cannot unravel. Your life is your life. You haven't lost it, it's just... different now. — Joseph Fink

My girlfriend said, Emo, I'm seeing another man. I said, Well, try rubbing your eyes or something. — Emo Philips