Top 100 Quotes About Policeman
#1. And he was, one could see, at peace with all the world. His daily round of tasks may or may not have been completed, but he was obviously off duty for the moment, and his whole attitude was that of a policeman with nothing on his mind but his helmet.
P.G. Wodehouse
#2. But, good Lord, man," he said, "you oughtn't to be a policeman!
G.K. Chesterton
#3. A policeman stopped me and said: Would you please blow into this bag, sir? I said: What for, officer? He said: My chips are too hot.
Tommy Cooper
#4. You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.
Joe Strummer
#5. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
Richard J. Daley
#6. was stopped on the street by a Dutch policeman, who ordered her to slowly speak the words Scheveningen and schapenscheerder. The Dutch police were trying to weed out Germans posing as Dutch, who most likely would not be able to pronounce those Dutch words.
Kathryn J. Atwood
#7. You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.
Alex Cox
#8. Compare the degree of zeal devoted to pursuing the man who assaults a policeman, with the attention that the State pays to the assault of an ordinary citizen.
Murray N. Rothbard
#9. We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.
Robert Carlyle
#10. There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there ... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them.
Jacque Fresco
#11. If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance."
"Eh?" said Syme, staring.
"The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger of a nation.
G.K. Chesterton
#12. Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?
Ernest Hemingway,
#13. Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!
Billy Sunday
#14. Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.
Dashiell Hammett
#15. It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.
Wilhelm Reich
#16. I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.
Jonathan Ames
#17. Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
Louis D. Brandeis
#18. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge?
Terry Pratchett
#19. I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
Patricia Highsmith
#20. I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven You find no policeman there
Woody Guthrie
#21. A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Billy Wilder
#22. I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life.
Joyce Banda
#23. If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?
William J. Brennan
#24. The naked statement - a black man has been killed by a white policeman - is such a fearsome divider of the races that the people who preside over a city immediately try to cover it with details.
Calvin Trillin
#25. He was very rich; he bought eggs to throw at a Chinaman. And one of those eggs missed the Chinaman and hit a policeman. So, Danny was in jail.
John Steinbeck
#26. Loeser found it hard to believe that God was forever slapping the face of the universe like a policeman trying to stop a drunk from falling asleep.
Ned Beauman
#27. America's not the world's policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.
Rand Paul
#28. To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
Ramana Maharshi
#29. Killed a policeman? How Vegetarian! Well, I suppose it was, so long as they didn't eat him.
G.K. Chesterton
#30. A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.
Darin Strauss
#31. A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
Will Rogers
#33. If you stop painting policemen in order to paint windmills, criticism remains so overpoweringly policeman-conscious that even a windmill is seen as something with arms out, obviously directing the traffic.
A.A. Milne
#34. Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
Charles Kuralt
#35. Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.
Margaret Visser
#36. Watched the close-cropped, long-legged policeman with the bad back stride quickly out of the canteen.
Jo Nesbo
#37. Goodness than depends on fear of hell or fear of the policeman or fear of punishment is not goodness at all - it is simply cowardice. Goodness than depends on hope of reward or hope of praise or hope of heaven depends on bribery.
A.S. Neill
#38. The petitioner may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional right to be a policeman.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#39. It's not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere, it's more like a song on a policeman's radio, how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple to slice into pieces.
Richard Siken
#40. It is a policeman's duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman's duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.
Ayn Rand
#41. It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. ( ... ) The "Tell the truth!" imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman.
Milan Kundera
#42. My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. "My nice policeman wants to see you," she said. "How do you feel?"
"Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober." I pushed Asta out of the way and got up.
Dashiell Hammett
#43. People disappear all the time. Ask any policeman. Better yet, ask a journalist. Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists.
Diana Gabaldon
#44. My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.
Robert Sean Leonard
#45. As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.
Franklin P. Adams
#46. It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.
Philip Kerr
#47. No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
Florence Nightingale
#48. Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
Calvin Harris
#49. I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with.
Don McCullin
#50. My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder," which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.
Ben Aaronovitch
#52. Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.
Louis L'Amour
#53. There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
Brendan Behan
#54. I think what education gives you is a voice. It gives you a way of talking to a judge. When a policeman pulls you off to the side of the road, you have a voice. When you cross a border, you have a voice. When you are writing to express your opinions, you have a voice.
Richard Rodriguez
#55. We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.
Jimmy Carter
#56. THE POLICEMAN: I'm a policeman. I'm paid by those in charge to combat dissatisfaction.
Bertolt Brecht
#58. What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.
Dennis Farina
#59. I decided to become a policeman to speak for the dead. They have no one else, you see. Somewhere there's always proof of what happened, some piece of evidence that will obtain a conviction. It's important for the guilty to be brought to justice, I think. Without justice, there's chaos.
Charles Todd
#60. McDonald, who was known to hate policemen, was once approached by two cops for a two-dollar donation. "We're burying a policeman," one of them said, to which Mike responded, "Here's ten dollars. Bury five of them.
Gus Russo
#61. Because every time I think of starships skipping across the galaxy, I imagine Albert Einstein in a policeman's uniform, writing up a ticket.
John Scalzi
#62. I always hope, in fact, that my interlocutor will be a policeman and that he will arrest me for the theft of 'The Just Judges'".
Albert Camus
#63. A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!"
Henny Youngman
#64. Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#65. The way he talked sounded part Yankee, part foreign, like one of those friendly Irish policeman in the old movies: Ouch, mind you!
Barbara Kingsolver
#66. I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one - you don't abuse a policeman, and two - you don't steal things.
Alan Sugar
#67. As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.
Noam Chomsky
#68. When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.
Simon Cowell
#69. Death comes to us all, that is the only thing we can be certain of. It makes no difference whether it is a thief in a garbage dump or a policeman in the line of duty. When someone dies at the hands of another, the pain for the survivors is the same.
Kjell Eriksson
#70. POLICEMAN. Good luck. (She finds it easiest just to nod in reply) I wish I was a Prince.
J.M. Barrie
#72. Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.
P.G. Wodehouse
#73. During my early days as a sportsman and early career as a policeman, things were tight. In athletics I competed as an amateur and, although I might have received some expenses, very little came my way in earnings.
Geoff Capes
#74. I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.
Rebekah Brooks
#75. One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
Colin Powell
#76. The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
Orson Welles
#77. I learned when I was a student in Connecticut. I had an Italian-American teacher who gave me classes for a week, and then said, "Okay, you're ready." And I wasn't ready. I didn't know how to drive!. But he knew the policeman who gave the test. And that's how I got through.
Sandra Cisneros
#78. Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.
Sid Caesar
#79. The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.
Bruce Springsteen
#80. The more windows on the world a policeman has the better he is likely to be at his job,
Josephine Tey
#81. Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.
Nico
#82. TV is a huge draw. It's a magnet. Even when I was a policeman, if I was on a police scene and the news showed up, I'd race home to see if I would be on TV for 2 seconds!
Jerry Springer
#83. Waldo nodded and looked at the policeman's face. Somehow the water that was dripping from the bill of his cap made him appear almost human. Nah, Waldo thought, it would take a lot more than water to wash that look off.
Donald Jeffries
#84. Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.
Robert M. Pirsig
#85. America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
Rand Paul
#86. That's one of the problems with Hollywood. It'll say 'policeman,' and an unless it says 'black policeman,' a lot of times you won't even get the opportunity to read for it, which is kind of crazy, but that's the way it is.
Meshach Taylor
#87. They tended to wield the huge blunt ax of the law in circumstances that required the delicate scalpel of common sense. [ ... ] Policeman with their great big boots were not required here on a night like this. It would be a good idea to put a thumbtack under the ponderous feet of Justice.
Terry Pratchett
#88. A temple was worth a dozen barracks; a militia man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd only for as long as he was present; however, a single priest could put a policeman inside the head of every one of their flock, for ever.
Iain M. Banks
#89. Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.
Herbert Spencer
#90. A traffic policeman stops Sister Bridget for speeding. She pulls into the side of the road and winds down her window. The officer walks round and starts undoing his fly. "Oh dear," she says, "Not the breathalyser again."
Frank Carson
#91. Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.
John Hagee
#92. Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.
Ben Maddow
#93. A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert Frost
#94. Ove is fifty-nine. He drives a Saab. He's the kind of man who points at people he doesn't like the look of, as if they were burglars and his forefinger a policeman's flashlight.
Fredrik Backman
#95. That won't do," said the policeman; "that's murder." "I know what country I'm in," said the man with the beard. "I'm going to let off at his legs. Draw the bolts.
H.G.Wells
#96. Do you ever sing in the car?"
"Generally not. But I am driving a police car."
"I think people would like a singing policeman. Makes life seem more like a musical. Like Foot-tastic."
"You can talk for a long time about nothing."
"I certainly can, you charming man!
Maureen Johnson
#97. The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.
Newt Gingrich
#98. I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
John Thaw
#99. If you believe you are beyond harm, will you go inside? Will you enter this palace so prominent in blood and glory, follow your face through the web-spanned dark, toward the exquisite chiming of the clavier? The alarms cannot see us. The wet policeman lurking in the doorway cannot see us. Come ...
Thomas Harris
#100. The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised.
Paul Russell
