It seems you like your coffee half and half, sarge ... half in the cup and half in the saucer. - Colin Dexter

He passed the blonde just as she turned her head, and he blinked hard. What a world we live in! for the lovely blonde had a lovely beard and side-whiskers down to his chin. Interesting thought ...

He's promised to see a psychiatrist — but I'm not very optimistic about that. I only ever knew one psychiatrist. Funny chap. If ever a man was in need of psychiatric treatment it was him.

...he'd come round to the view that Freud would have been a far more valuable citizen if he'd stuck to his research on local anaesthetics.