amateur Quotes

“It soon became clear that doing one thing better and better might be more satisfying than staying an amateur at many different things.”

“He is an amateur and international affairs today are no longer for gentleman amateurs.”

“Of course it’s very hampering being a detective, when you don’t know anything about detecting, and when nobody knows that you’re doing detection, and you can’t have people up to cross-examine them, and you have neither the energy nor the means to make proper inquiries; and, in short, when you’re doing the whole thing in a thoroughly amateur, haphazard way.”