Culprit Quotes

John D. Rockefeller is the greatest murderer the nation had ever produced.

If I am actually a traitor or anti-national, come and form a national commission. I will be there, and those who call me a traitor should also be there, so that the 220 million people of Pakistan can see who is the actual culprit.

Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

We’re going to find out who did this, and we’re going to kick their asses.

... a living, breathing crime in breeches.

I think, very often, we're addicted to procedurals, those good guy/bad guy shows, and the 'problem' with procedurals is they all follow the same formula: The bad guy does his thing, the good guy goes after him, and in most cases, the good guy figures out who did it and catches him.

Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.

Know that Truth sees through bullshit. So if you can't handle looking at Truth, you must be a Devil's culprit.

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

It is unlike the quintessential thriller where someone is up to something and the audience is speculating. 'Johnny Gaddaar' is the opposite of a thriller. In this case, the audience knows right from the outset what transpires and who the likely culprit is. It is a suspense caper.

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.

I hope that the SOB who is responsible for this will rot in Hell!

Occasionally, I have written about stories related to crime, but I have never attempted a traditional detective story. So I want to write a true detective story.

A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

I've always wanted to play a detective. Always loved detective shows, right back to 'Columbo', 'The Rockford Files', 'Starsky & Hutch'.

Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

It was me, Austin. It was me all along, Austin!