27 Quotes by Colin Dexter

Maximum mental energy' had never been Kevin's strong point.

A man is little use when his wife’s a widow. Scottish proverb

Morse, he knew, had the maddeningly brilliant facility for seeing his way through the dark labyrinths of human motive and human behaviour...

Morse poured himself a can of beer. "Champagne's a lovely drink, but it makes you thirsty, doesn't it?

you’ve never seen any evidence of drugs—any packets of drugs? Crack? Speed? Ecstasy? Anything? Anything at all?” Had she? “No,” she said. Almost truthfully. “You’ve never smelt anything suspicious?” “I wouldn’t know what they smell like, drugs,

But he'd realized too, at the same time, that his capacity for jealousy was pretty nearly boundless.

Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.

He was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people.

He sighed and knew that life was full of ‘if only’ for everyone