Golden Age Detective

Famous quotes containing the words golden, age and/or detective:

“The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet’s year is completed, it will be found to be central.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”
—Maurice Chevalier (1888–1972)

“I’ve always credited the private detective with a high degree of omniscience. Or is that only true in rental fiction?”
—John Paxton (1911–1985)