Last Seen Wearing Quotes

“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.”
― Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing

“As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if only he could summon up the mental resolve to begin. It was like deferring a long-promised letter; the intention lay on the mind so heavily that the simple task seemed progressively to assume almost gigantic proportions.”
― Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing

“Morse firmly believed that there was nothing so unsatisfactory as this kind of pornography; he liked it hot or not at all.”
― Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing

“Gli uomini erano più fortunati, pensò Morse, sembravano invecchiare meno clamorosamente delle donne.”
― Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing

“[...] se solo fosse riuscito a trovare la forza d'animo per cominciare. Era come quando si rimanda una lettera dovuta da tempo. Il buon proposito grava così pesante sulla mente che questo atto, in apparenza così semplice, alla fine sembra richiedere uno sforzo titanico.”
― Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing

“A man is little use when his wife's a widow. - Scottish Proverb”
― Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing

“The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the one before. G. K. Chesterton”
― Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing

“All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy”
― Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing

“As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if only he could summon up the mental resolve to begin.”
― Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing