Quote by Colin Dexter Download Open image ““wailing like a dalek in distress”” — Colin Dexter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“... he ran across the road and began to walk at breakneck speed down the hill. He hardly knew where he was walking. Pride… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“you could cry, get worried or angry like any other human being, as long as you remembered that up above your spirit was laughing… — Paolo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I've had some mighty mean moments afore I kem to this spot,-- Lost on the plains in '50, drowned almost, and shot; But out… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
“Ai was exhausted and enraged. He looked ready to cry, but did not. I believe he considers crying either evil or shameful. Even when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“This is how people behave when their dailiness is destroyed, when for a few moments they see, plain and unadorned, one of the great… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He groped for his loafers and walked aimlessly for some time among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were singing so richly, with… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, in the evenings, a damp, gritty wind blew in the windows from Park Avenue, just as the rush hour traffic was thinning and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“He'd no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway.” — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
“Morse poured himself a can of beer. "Champagne's a lovely drink, but it makes you thirsty, doesn't it?” — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
“Walters looked quizzically at Morse, who sat reading one of the glossy 'porno' magazines he had brought from upstairs. "You still sex-mad, I see,… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up.… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
We read so much about incompetence and corruption in all sorts of places. I'm not just thinking of the United Kingdom and the United… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
“It is strange to relate (for a man in his profession) that in addition to incurable acrophobia, arachnophobia, myophobia, and ornithophobia, Morse also suffered… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
I've not much faith in the future of the planet and I'm not just thinking about Mr. Bush or global warming. I feel that… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
“Nothing quite like it in the whole history of music," announced Morse magisterially, after Brünnhilde had ridden into the flames and the waves of… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
“As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
“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.… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
