Private Detective

Famous quotes containing the words private and/or detective:

“There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“When a man’s partner’s killed, he’s supposed to do something about it. It doesn’t make any difference what you thought of him, he was your partner and you’re supposed to do something about it. As it happens, we’re in the detective business; well, when one of your organization gets killed, it’s, it’s bad business to let the killer get away with it. Bad all around. Bad for every detective everywhere.”
—John Huston (1906–1987)