- Nun: [Morse has been questioning a patient] Come out of there at once and leave my patient alone.
- Chief Inspector Morse: I'm sorry; I'm making enquiries.
- Nun: Then you will make them to thin air outside the gates.
- Chief Inspector Morse: I could compel you to co-operate.
- Nun: Oh, you ridiculous man! Of course you couldn't. I answer to a *much* higher authority than the Thames Valley Police.
- Lance Mandeville: [as Morse is leaving the interrogation room] I stake my oath that Geoffrey is neither a murderer nor a thief, and may God forgive you, Chief Inspector.
- Chief Inspector Morse: I doubt if your God would have much truck with the likes of me. At least I hope he wouldn't.
- [He leaves]
- Chief Inspector Morse: Good morning!
- Emma Pickford: I don't know whether I should be pleased or alarmed when I see you.
- Chief Inspector Morse: I'm only pleased when I see you.
- Chief Inspector Morse: He's withholding information, sir!
- Chief Superintendent Strange: [Indignantly] I've been looking at him on and off - checking. Spends most of his time on his knees, and that's where you'll be, I'm tellin' you, if you don't make this stick!
- Lance Mandeville: Who said anything about happiness? I haven't been happy since I was an undergraduate, and even then, I suspect it was an illusion.
- [last lines]
- [at a party, Morse is offered either orange juice or a can of Leopard lager]
- Chief Inspector Morse: I'll have the orange juice.
- Hilary Dobson: [to Emma] Tell him! Tell him what's been going on here!
- Chief Inspector Morse: [Dourly] Well, someone should tell me.