The Jewel That Was Ours Quotes

“Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)”
― Colin Dexter, The Jewel That Was Ours

“was virtually certain of that. As the coach drew into St. Giles’, the sky was an open blue, and the sunlight gleamed on the cinnamon-coloured stone along the broad tree-lined avenue. “Here we are, in St. Giles.’ ” (Ashenden slipped into over-drive now.) “You can see the plane trees on either side of us, ablaze with the beautifully golden tints of autumn—and, on the left here, St. John’s College—and Balliol just beyond. And here in front of us, the famous Martyrs’ Memorial, modelled on the Eleanor Crosses of Edward the First, and designed by Gilbert Scott to honour the great Protestant martyrs—Cranmer and Latimer and, er …” “Nicholas Ridley,” supplied Mrs. Roscoe, as the coach turned right at the traffic lights and almost immediately pulled in on the left of Beaumont Street beneath the tall neo-Gothic façade of The Randolph Hotel. “At last!” cried Laura Stratton, with what might have been”
― Colin Dexter, The Jewel That Was Ours

“for whatever”
― Colin Dexter, The Jewel that was Ours: An Inspector Morse Mystery 9

“He’d once read (or heard)—Disraeli, was it? (or Jimmy Bowden?)—that a man ought never to apologize; never to explain. He did neither”
― Colin Dexter, The Jewel That Was Ours

“summed up so well that it came to far more    Than the”
― Colin Dexter, The Jewel That Was Ours

“was with Ashenden that Morse’s attention was immediately”
― Colin Dexter, The Jewel That Was Ours