Famous quotes containing the words detective and/or grades:
“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”
—P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)
“Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down, does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)