Amateur Detective Quotes

#1. I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

Chelsea Cain

#2. My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.

Emma Thompson

#3. Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge

Jennifer A. Girardin

#4. Anger always has a reason but there are no good reasons to be angry.

Debasish Mridha

#5. 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

#6. Lesson one, introduce yourself to everyone when you walk into a room. Don't act like you're too bougie to say, 'Hello.'

Estelle

#7. Besides, tomorrow everything would look different. The day always came with more than mere light. However frayed your emotions, it was impossible to be wholly unaffected by the day's new beginnings.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#8. A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#9. 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

#10. The most frustrating thing is that I want to always buy the best thing, the thing that does the most stuff.

Jerry Zucker

#11. My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out]

David Wishart