# Quote — Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

> If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.

- Author: [Douglas Adams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams.md)
- Book: [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/dirk-gentlys-holistic-detective-agency.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams#Dirk_Gently's_Holistic_Detective_Agency_(1987)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
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## More from this book

> This time there would be no witnesses.

p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/dirk-gentlys-holistic-detective-agency/this-time-there.md)

> WFT-II was the only British software company that could be mentioned in the same sentence as such major U.S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus. The sentence would probably run along the lines of "WFT-II, unlike such major U.S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus ..." but it was a start.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/dirk-gentlys-holistic-detective-agency/wft-ii-was-the.md)

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> The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/dirk-gentlys-holistic-detective-agency/the-seat-received.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)