Author: Colin Dexter

Cites

• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: The Dead of Jericho (1981) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: And I wonder how they should have been together.
    FROM: La Figlia che Piange, (1917), Poem, UK
• Voltaire (1)
  • IN: The Wench Is Dead (1989) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thought depends absolutely on the stomach; but, in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers
    FROM: Voltaire, in a letter to d'Alemberi, (1770), Letter, France
• La Rochefoucauld (1)
  • IN: The Secret of Annexe 3 (1986) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: The pomp of funerals has more regard to the vanity of the living than to the honour of the dead.
    FROM: Maxims, (1665), Book, France
• Horace (1)
  • IN: The Daughters of Cain (1994) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Natales grate numeras? (Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)
    FROM: Epistles II, (-14), Book, Italy
• NULL (3)
  • IN: The Daughters of Cain (1994) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oxford is the Latin quarter of Cowley
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Death is Now My Neighbour (1996) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: A decided boon, therefore, are any multiple-choice items for those pupils in our classrooms who are either inured to idleness, or guilty of wilful ignorance. Such pupils, if simply and appropriately instructed, have only to plump for the same answer on each occasion - let us say, choice (a) from choices (a) (b) (c) (d) - in order to achieve a reasonably regular score of some 25% of the total marks available. This is a wholly satisfactory return for academic incompetence
    FROM: Crosscurrents in Assessment Criteria: Theory and Practice, HMSO, 1983, (1983), Book, NULL
  • IN: Morse’s Greatest Mystery and other stories (1993) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Admiring friend: “My, that’s a beautiful baby you have there!” Mother: “Oh, that’s nothing — you should see his photograph.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• A. E. Housman (1)
  • IN: The Remorseful Day (1999) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day
    FROM: More Poems, XVI, (1936), Poem, UK
• David Mackenzie (1)
  • IN: The Remorseful Day (1999) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: When I wrote my 1997 letter I thought I had little to look forward to in 1998, but it turns out that I was stupidly optimistic
    FROM: On the Dole in Darlington, (None), NULL, US
• Edmund Raikes (1)
  • IN: The Remorseful Day (1999) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: As o'cr me now them lean' st thy breast, With larder'd bodice crisply pressed, Lief I'd prolong my grievous ill Wert thou my guardian angel still
    FROM: The Nurse, (1999), Fictional, NULL
• Bible (3)
  • IN: The Way Through the Woods (1992) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be whiter, yea whiter, than snow
    FROM: Bible, Isaiah, ch. i, v. 18, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Morse’s Greatest Mystery and other stories (1993) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world.
    FROM: Bible, 2 Peter, ch. 1, v. 4), (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Service of All the Dead (1979) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God: than to dwell in the tents of ungodliness.
    FROM: Psalm 84, V 10, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1)
  • IN: The Way Through the Woods (1992) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations, (1953), Book, Austria
• Lilian Cooper (1)
  • IN: The Jewel That Was Ours (1991) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Espied the god with gloomy soul The prize that in the casket lay Who came with silent tread and stole The jewel that was ours away.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Stendhal (1)
  • IN: The Jewel That Was Ours (1991) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not impossible to become bored in the presence of a mistress
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Aristophanes (1)
  • IN: Death Is Now My Neighbor (1996) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
    FROM: The Knights, (-424), Play, Greece