The Secret of Annexe 3 Quotes

“I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew): Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. (RUDYARD KIPLING)”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek. (SAMUEL JOHNSON)”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

“I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew): Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

“post hoc, ergo propter hoc proposition; and it had occasionally occurred to him that fallacious logic was not infrequently the offspring of wishful thinking.”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

“In the back bar of the Eagle and Child in St Giles’, the two men sat and drank their beer, and Lewis found himself reading and reading again the writing on the wooden plaque fixed to the wall behind Morse’s head: C.S. LEWIS, his brother, W.H. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and other friends met every Tuesday morning, between the years 1939–1962 in the back room of this their favourite pub. These men, popularly known as the ‘Inklings’, met here to drink beer and to discuss, among other things, the books they were writing.”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

“Beware of all enterprises that require fancy clothes. (THOREAU)”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

“Time of death,' said Morse. 'Come on!”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

“I'm past thinking,' said Sarah quietly.”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

“The room was cold as the grave.”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

“And what of Morse himself?”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

“During the times in which these events are set, there occurred a quite spectacular renaissance in fancy-dress occasions.”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

“There should be an umlaut over the 'o' in 'Storen',' said Morse.”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3

“this man with the hard-staring, startling eyes – eyes that had at first reminded her of the more fanatical politicians, like Benn or Joseph or Powell,”
― Colin Dexter, The Secret of Annexe 3