Inspector Morse Quotes

  • Morse: I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.

  • Morse: The secret of a happy life is to know when to stop - and then go that bit further.

  • Morse: When I'm thinking, I get thirsty.

  • Morse: Drink that, Lewis, and loosen some brain cells.

  • [repeated line]

    Morse: [disparagingly] LEW-is!

  • [as Lewis makes a chance remark which unwittingly provides Morse with a major clue]

    Morse: You've done it *again*, Lewis!

  • Morse: There's always time for one more pint.

  • Morse: *Morse*. Everyone just calls me "Morse".

  • [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.

  • Morse: Coded messages, murder - right up my street. It's not a bad way to start the day.

  • Morse: Ideals come to torment us all at some stage, or at least they should do.

  • [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

Director: John Madden, Danny Boyle, Antonia Bird, Charles Beeson

Language: English Release date: February 4, 1988