Top 5 John Dickson Carr Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I am a mathematician, sir. I never permit myself to think.”

— John Dickson Carr

2. “I have committed another crime, Hadley,′ he said. ‘I have guessed the truth again.”

— John Dickson Carr

3. “To write good history is the noblest work of man.”

— John Dickson Carr

4. “It’s all very well to have your eight suspects parading in their endless ring-around-the-rosebush outside the library. That’s fine. But give some sensible reason why they were there. If you must shower the room with bus tickets, provide a reason for that too. In other words, construct your story. Your present problem is not to explain the villainy of the guilty: it’s to explain the stupidity of the innocent.”

— John Dickson Carr

5. “If you stood motionless in the stream of time, listening to crying voices out of the past, you might presently believe that your feelings or your neighbour’s were of puny significance because they had been experienced so often before and would be experienced again when you had gone. Whereas they did matter; they were the only reality; there was no shame in feeling the hurt.”

— John Dickson Carr

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