Inspector Morse Quotes

“Barrington Pheloung’s introductory theme-music was a splendid opening, with its fusion of a fine melody with the ‘da-ditty-da’ rhythm of the Morse code.”
― Colin Dexter, Inspector Morse: A Mysterious Profile

“high-church atheist” (as I called him), yet with a deep love for the Methodist Hymnal, the King James’ Bible, the church music of Byrd, Tallis, Purcell, etc, the sight of candles, and the smell of incense.”
― Colin Dexter, Inspector Morse: A Mysterious Profile

“Perhaps my one wholly legitimate claim to notoriety is that single-handedly I have made Oxford the murder capital of the UK—and probably of the EU.”
― Colin Dexter, Inspector Morse: A Mysterious Profile

“tell a story that would entertain whatever readers might be coming my way.”
― Colin Dexter, Inspector Morse: A Mysterious Profile

“Initium est dimidium facti (the beginning is one half of the deed), as the Roman proverb has it.”
― Colin Dexter, Inspector Morse: A Mysterious Profile