27 Quotes by Colin Dexter

Walters looked quizzically at Morse, who sat reading one of the glossy 'porno' magazines he had brought from upstairs."You still sex-mad, I see, Morse," said the surgeon."I don't seem to be able to shake it off, Max." Morse turned over a page. "And you don't improve much either, do you? You've been examining all our bloody corpses for donkey's years, and you still refuse to tell us when they died.

He'd no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway.

It is strange to relate (for a man in his profession) that in addition to incurable acrophobia, arachnophobia, myophobia, and ornithophobia, Morse also suffered from necrophobia; and had he known what awaited him now, it is doubtful whether he would have dared to view the horridly disfigured corpse at all.

Nothing quite like it in the whole history of music," announced Morse magisterially, after Brünnhilde had ridden into the flames and the waves of the Rhine had finally rippled into silence."You think so?""Don't you?""I prefer Elizabethan madrigals, really."For a few moments Morse said nothing, saddened by her lack of sensitivity, it seemed.

I write every day when I’m at home – trying to catch up with correspondence.

I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.

There’s always time for one more pint. – Chief Inspector Morse.

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.

As a boy, he had been moved by those words of the dying Socrates, suggesting that if death were just one long, unbroken, dreamless sleep, then a greater boon could hardly be bestowed upon mankind.