Inspector Morse (TV Series)

Twilight of the Gods (1993)

John Thaw: Chief Inspector Morse

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Quotes 

• Detective Sergeant Lewis : You ought to get off home. You look done in.

  Chief Inspector Morse : [Depressed]  I am... done in.

  Chief Inspector Morse : [He puts down his pen and sighs]  Art and life, Lewis. Art and life.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : Oh, yeah?

  Chief Inspector Morse : Always preferred art myself. Don't know about life. And when I meet people like Baydon, I'm not that sorry but... Today, I suppose because I've always thought art was... because it gave me so much... I've always thought of artists as... as being something different.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : My dad used to love football - but he didn't like footballers. You have to keep the people that do things apart from what they do. That's what he said.

• Chief Inspector Morse : Allowing the pages of The Sun to pass before your eyes does not amount to reading, Lewis.

• Chief Inspector Morse : Better drag the river, I suppose. You know, it would be nice to enjoy the Isis once in a while, instead of having to fish bodies out of it.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : You're not suffering job stress, are you, Sir?

• Librarian : Inspector, it's lunchtime. A lot of people are getting hungry.

  Chief Inspector Morse : Send out for sandwiches.

  Librarian : [Officiously]  This is a library. Eating is strictly forbidden! If you're a graduate of the university, I would have thought you would have known that.

  Chief Inspector Morse : [Annoyed]  Oh, then, you'll just have to wait until the officer in charge says you can go out.

• Chief Inspector Morse : [to Lewis, referring to where the shot came from]  Why then, it must be the library, but why choose a place notorious for silence to fire a shot?

• Chief Inspector Morse : [Discussing Andrew Braydon's decision to become a WWII prison camp guard]  Why did you go to the fascists in the camp?

  Andrew Baydon : You English. You have led such a sheltered English life. Oxford, a dream town. But there

  [the camp] 

  Andrew Baydon : it was worse than any nightmare you could

  [imagine] 

  Andrew Baydon : Life or death every minute of the day. My life or yours. Can you understand that! Knobhead? But even here, in Oxford,-if you had to decide, I kill you or you kill me, which way would you go?

  Chief Inspector Morse : I don't know.

  Andrew Baydon : Then, you would die.