Famous quotes containing the words occult and/or detective:
“The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”
—P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)