Quotes About Suspect

It's the police, for the most part, who decide whether a suspect should be arrested, and prosecutors who ultimately determine whether a conviction should be pursued.

the suspect, Colin Stagg, must be the person who introduces every single element. What you may then do is reflect that back. You must never introduce it first. If you do, you're fulfilling your hopes, you see?" I

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

Sometimes I suspect that good readers are even blacker and rarer swans than good writers.

Let me get this straight." Gabel paced in a small circle. "Never Dead Ned may actually be a secret wizard because secret wizards don't go around showing off their power in public, except to convince people that they aren't really secret wizards, which very few people suspect even exist in the first place." "It's a very clever ploy," said Frank. "Ingenious," agreed Regina.

When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.

Whatever worldview we espouse, dialogue and debate should take place with civility and courteous listening. But our times make that ideal so elusive. Holding a supposedly noble belief and reducing it to ignoble means of propagation makes the one who holds that belief suspect.

Bilateral symmetry can have grave consequences for a police officer in a tense situation where he is holding a pistol on a suspect.

I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright.

The only clue to what is in people's minds is in their behavior. If a man behaves strangely, oddly, is not himself-- Then you suspect him? No. That is just what I mean. A man whose mind is evil and whose intentions are evil is conscious of that fact and he knows that he must conceal it all costs. He dare not, therefore, afford any unusual behavior.

The murderer is with us—on the train now….

When you have two crimes precisely similar in design and execution, you find the same brain behind them both." -- Hercule Poirot

You cannot have a murder without motive." -- Hercule Poirot

Poirot said: "Who could have murdered him?" Japp said: "The answer to that is—almost anybody!

Lo más sospechoso de las soluciones es que se las encuentra siempre que se quiere

Great grief can be worn charmingly by a beauty and I have seen a lot of gracious dignity at funerals in my time but it is my experience that when grief is becoming it is also suspect. Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul. I blush to recall that I was surprised that Charles – nice, bluff Charles with his shooting and his hedgerows and his dogs – had a heart that could be broken. But he had and I was there to witness its breaking.

Well, it's not as though he cannot help it, you see. The…saving of things. I suspect it's Captain Flint's way of telling the world, 'This is how it's done.'" She wondered if it was also Flint's way of showing the world, "This is how you could have saved me when I was a boy.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

Well, Sir, we do like to find out who kills people and why.

These days things had a way of happening around him. Although events seemed chaotic, Cork was beginning to suspect they weren't at all. Sam Winter Moon used to say that sometimes the only way a man learns the true spirit of a rock is to stub his toe on it.

Or at least rumours. Ragnar was starting to suspect that any place you put two soldiers together in a campaign, you would get three rumours.

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.