Famous quotes containing the words detective and/or constable:
“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”
—P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)
“I did not know that thou wert dead before;
I did not feel the grief I did sustain;
The greater stroke astonisheth the more;
Astonishment takes from us sense of pain.
I stood amazed when others tears begun,
And now begin to weep when they have done.”
—Henry Constable (15621613)