Mystery Quotes

Again time elapsed.

~ Carolyn Keene

Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

He knew at once it was a human bone, when he took it from the baby who was sitting on the floor chewing it.

~ Arnaldur Indriðason

She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!

~ Carolyn Keene

All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.

~ Isaac Asimov

The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.

~ Francis Brett Young

In the darkest corner of a darkened room, all Sherlock Homes stories begin. In the pregnant dim of gaslight and smoke, Holmes would sit, digesting the day's papers, puffing on his long pipe, injecting himself with cocaine. He would pop smoke rings into the gloom, waiting for something, anything, to pierce into the belly of his study and release the promise of adventure; of clues to interpret; of, at last he would plead, a puzzle he could not solve. And after each story he would return here, into the dark room, and die day by day of boredom. The darkness of his study was his cage, but also the womb of his genius.

~ Graham Moore

Why didn't they ask the Evans?

~ Agatha Christie

She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.

~ Jeffery Deaver

I leveled the gun and fired until it was empty.

~ Rachel Brady

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.Winston Churchill

~ H.a. Corby

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

~ Donald E. Westlake

You can never be free of their criticism until you no longer seek their praise.

~ Dennis Ruane

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

~ Deborah Smith

I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.

~ Steve Hamilton

Nice dress,” Victoria said.“Thank you,” Perpetua said. “Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?”Victoria blinked. “Uh, what?

~ Benjamin R. Smith

Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70% of his dialogue with 'Are you stupid?' and the conversation would still make sense.

~ Nisioisin

But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean

~ Jeff Mariotte

I wish you couldn't figure me out, but you'd always want to know what I was about

~ Kate Nash

And you who seek to know me,know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not,unless you know the Mystery:For if that which you seek,you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.

~ Doreen Valiente

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

~ Agatha Christie

I needed a new mystery.

~ John Fowles

I am who I am and always shall be.

~ Laura Elizabeth

Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you.

~ June Ahern

Be careful what you say...you might end up in my next book!

~ Michele Lynn Seigfried

My life is my book, but I can't read it.

~ Marty Rubin

This is the day the Lord has made, suck it up and rejoice.

~ Donna White Glaser

You are not who you think you are.

~ Silvia Hartmann

You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!

~ Dan Brown

It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.

~ Todd Strasser

You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal. --Sherlock Holmes

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'The husband, unlike the manager or the would-be objective scientist, belongs inherently to the complexity and the mystery that is to be husbanded, and so the husbanding mind is both careful and humble.

~ Wendell Berry

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

~ Malcolm Muggeridge

My name is Markowski. I carry a badge. Also a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets.I was never a Boy Scout but Be Prepared is still a good motto to live by. Especially if you plan to keep living.

~ Justin Gustainis

Ah well that I can't tell you. Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I'll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.

~ Anna Godbersen

As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.

~ Alan Bradley

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.

~ V. Alexander

The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.

~ Mike Bove

She remembers this phrase from his final months of law school, when he brought home the books on starting up a business. He'd read ravenously for several weeks and then predicted: Well, darling, we're going to be rich. Now he slaps shut the last of his books and announces, with equal assurance: We're all going to die.

~ Jacob Appel

What’s the hurry? From my experience, dead bodies don’t get any deader.

~ David Harry