Private Detective

Famous quotes containing the words private and/or detective:

“Eddie: Who are you soldier?
Philip Marlowe: Marlowe’s my name. I’m a private detective.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)

“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)