Golden Age Detective

Famous quotes containing the words golden, age and/or detective:

“Fondnesse it were for any being free,
To covet fetters, though they golden bee.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

“Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

“The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)