[Dexter has just proposed] Tracy Lord: Oh Dexter you're not doing it just to soften the blow? C. K. Dexter Haven: No. Tracy Lord: Nor to save my face? C. K. Dexter Haven: Oh, it's a nice little face. Tracy Lord: Oh Dexter, I'll be yar now, I promise ...
Zeus: Now, where you goin'? Dexter: School. Zeus: Why? Raymond: To get educated. Zeus: *Why*? Dexter: So we can go to college. Zeus: And why is that important? Dexter: To get es-pect. Zeus: RE-spect. Now, who's the bad guys? Dexter: Guys who sell dru...
Tracy Lord: Dexter, say something. C. K. Dexter Haven: Well, I... Tracy Lord: Oh, Dexter, I'm such an unholy mess of a girl. C. K. Dexter Haven: Well, that's no good. That's not even conversation.
Macaulay Connor: What's this? Is it my book? C. K. Dexter Haven: Yes. Macaulay Connor: C. K. Dexter Haven you have unsuspected depth! C. K. Dexter Haven: Thanks, old chap. Macaulay Connor: But have you read it? C. K. Dexter Haven: When I was trying t...
Macaulay Connor: [calling outside his house] C.K. Dexter Haven! Oh, C.K. Dexter Haven! C. K. Dexter Haven: [coming to the door in his pajamas] What's up? Macaulay Connor: You are. C. K. Dexter Haven: I only hope it's worth it. Come in.
'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on.
George Kittredge: [Dexter has butted in] You keep out of this. C. K. Dexter Haven: You forget I am out of it.
George Kittredge: [walks in on Tracy and Dexter together] Well, I suppose I should object to this twosome. C. K. Dexter Haven: That would be most objectionable.
Tracy Lord: Dexter, would you mind doing something for me? C. K. Dexter Haven: Anything. What? Tracy Lord: Get the heck out of here.
Macaulay Connor: C.K. Dexter Haven, I would like to talk to you. C. K. Dexter Haven: Well, let's go in the talking room.
Macaulay Connor: Doggone it, C.K. Dexter Haven. Either I'm gonna sock you or you're gonna sock me. C. K. Dexter Haven: Shall we toss a coin?
C. K. Dexter Haven: Of course, Mr. Connor, she's a girl who is generous to a fault. Tracy Lord: To a fault. C. K. Dexter Haven: Except to other people's faults.
George Kittredge: But a man expects his wife to... Tracy Lord: Behave herself. Naturally. C. K. Dexter Haven: To behave herself naturally. [George gives him a look] C. K. Dexter Haven: Sorry.
C. K. Dexter Haven: Hello friends and enemies. Uncle Willie: Young man, remove yourself! C. K. Dexter Haven: How are you, sir? Uncle Willie: I don't know. Get along! Get along!
C. K. Dexter Haven: Orange juice, certainly. Tracy Lord: Don't tell me you've forsaken your beloved whisky and whiskies. C. K. Dexter Haven: No-no-no-no. I've just changed their colour, that's all. I'm going for the pale pastel shades now. They're mo...
C. K. Dexter Haven: [looking for the "hair of the dog"] Do you s'pose, sir, speaking of eye-openers...? Uncle Willie: Oh, that's the first sane remark I've heard today. C'malong, Dexter, I know a formula that's said to pop the pennies off the eyelids...
Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back thr...
C. K. Dexter Haven: Sometimes, for your own sake, Red, I think you should've stuck to me longer. Tracy Lord: I thought it was for life, but the nice judge gave me a full pardon. C. K. Dexter Haven: Aaah, that's the old redhead. No bitterness, no recr...
The one they always forget is Brad Dexter.
'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
I'm always excited to work and excited to be on a show as good as 'Dexter,' for sure.
