Detect

Famous quotes containing the word detect:

    A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)