Detect

Famous quotes containing the word detect:

    ... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
    Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

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

    Inspector Clouseau: Do I detect something in your voice that says I am in disfavor with you?
    Chief Inspector Dreyfus: Yes. I wish you were dead.
    Inspector Clouseau: Well, of course, you are entitled to your opinion.
    Blake Edwards (b. 1922)