The Daughters of Cain Quotes

“My life will not be significantly impoverished if I never see another Shakespearian comedy.”
― Colin Dexter, The Daughters of Cain

“The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution (BERTRAND RUSSELL, Marriage and Morals)”
― Colin Dexter, The Daughters Of Cain

“Needles and pins, needles and pins, When a man marries his trouble begins (Old nursery rhyme)”
― Colin Dexter, The Daughters Of Cain

“Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead (BENJAMIN FRANKLIN)”
― Colin Dexter, The Daughters Of Cain

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom (H. L. MENCKEN)”
― Colin Dexter, The Daughters Of Cain

“Sometimes procedures worked well; and sometimes (as now) there was every reason for the police to be congratulated on the way situations were handled. On this occasion one thing only (perhaps two?) had marred police professionalism.”
― Colin Dexter, The Daughters of Cain

“Phobias were common enough. Some people suffee from arachnophobia, or hysphobia, or myophobia, or pterophobia... Well-nigh everyone suffers occasionally from thanatophobia; many from necrophobia — although Morse was not really afraid of dead bodies at all, or so he told himself.”
― Colin Dexter, The Daughters of Cain

“Maximum mental energy' had never been Kevin's strong point.”
― Colin Dexter, The Daughters of Cain

“But he'd realized too, at the same time, that his capacity for jealousy was pretty nearly boundless.”
― Colin Dexter, The Daughters of Cain

“The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife”
― Colin Dexter, The Daughters Of Cain

“and Lewis felt excitement, and gratification. Somebody—some”
― Colin Dexter, The Daughters of Cain

“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,”
― Colin Dexter, The Daughters of Cain