# Colin Dexter

- Quotes: 6
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/colin-dexter

## Books

- [Last Bus to Woodstock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/colin-dexter/last-bus-to-woodstock.md) — 5 quotes
- [The Dead of Jericho](https://www.leafyquotes.com/colin-dexter/the-dead-of-jericho.md) — 1 quote

## Recently added quotes

> ‘Me and the wife always eat 'em (fish and chips) off the paper - seems to taste better somehow.’
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> ‘They say it's the newsprint sticking to the chips ... By Jove, your wife's right, Lewis. I'll never eat them off a plate again.’

> ‘It seems you like your coffee half and half, sarge ... half in the cup and half in the saucer.’

> He passed the blonde just as she turned her head, and he blinked hard. What a world we live in! for the lovely blonde had a lovely beard and side-whiskers down to his chin. Interesting thought ...

> ‘He's promised to see a psychiatrist — but I'm not very optimistic about that. I only ever knew one psychiatrist. Funny chap. If ever a man was in need of psychiatric treatment it was him.’

> ...he'd come round to the view that Freud would have been a far more valuable citizen if he'd stuck to his research on local anaesthetics.

> He hated suicides. ... Was suicide just the coward's refuge from some black despair? Or was it in its way an act of courage that revealed a perverted sort of valour? Not that, though. So many other lives were intertwined: no burdens were shed — they were merely passed from the shoulders of one to those of another.