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Morse: I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.
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Morse: The secret of a happy life is to know when to stop - and then go that bit further.
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Morse: When I'm thinking, I get thirsty.
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Morse: Drink that, Lewis, and loosen some brain cells.
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[repeated line]
Morse: [disparagingly] LEW-is!
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[as Lewis makes a chance remark which unwittingly provides Morse with a major clue]
Morse: You've done it *again*, Lewis!
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Morse: There's always time for one more pint.
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Morse: *Morse*. Everyone just calls me "Morse".
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[after Morse has been hit on the head]
Morse: 'Tis not so wide as a church door nor so deep as a river, but 'tis enough.
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Morse: Coded messages, murder - right up my street. It's not a bad way to start the day.
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Morse: Ideals come to torment us all at some stage, or at least they should do.
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[to Lewis, feeling sorry for himself]
Morse: I'm old and unmarried, and I don't understand human nature. What does it matter?
Lewis: How old are you?
Morse: I forget, Robbie.
Inspector Morse Quotes
Extended Reading
Director: John Madden, Danny Boyle, Antonia Bird, Charles Beeson
Language: English Release date: February 4, 1988