Top 100 Quotes About Policeman
#1. Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one.
Will Durant
#2. Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still had and still do have respect for the old school policeman.
Stephen Richards
#3. Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time *
George Balanchine
#4. It's basically taking a 911 call, bringing them on stage and dealing with it just like when I was a Chicago policeman for 12 years. I personally become involved. Where Jerry lets people tell their story and lets everything happen on stage, I kind of go after the bad guy and protect the little guy.
Steve Wilkos
#5. Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?"
Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.
Groucho Marx
#6. The story told about him at Count Rostov's was true. Pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. He
Leo Tolstoy
#7. So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.
Harvey Keitel
#8. We cannot become the world's policeman, but where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must act and we must lead. That is our job and we are better, stronger and safer because we are doing it.
William J. Clinton
#9. The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
Walter Lippmann
#10. Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)
Shimon Peres
#11. When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.
Dennis Franz
#12. This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."
Tim Vine
#13. Your children are French-born citizens," the policeman said. "You may leave them here. They're not on my list.
Kristin Hannah
#14. It's hard to describe yourself as a hero - I just like to think of myself as a policeman. People can look to you like that, as a good guy who can help people.
Steve Wilkos
#15. It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
George Bernard Shaw
#16. I think that although we say we don't want to be the policeman of the world and et cetera, when 911 is dialed, it's the United States that has to answer the call.
Richard Armitage
#17. And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?"
"What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo.
"It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays.
Norton Juster
#18. I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near me, with their vehement beat-pounding black and green rhythms like those of a very young policeman exploding, for me to see the written evidence of it.
Dylan Thomas
#19. If he had been a dog in a city, a policeman would have shot him and sent his head to a laboratory, to see if he had rabies. So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. that you have three of the most important virtues a policeman can have," he thought. "You are stubborn and logical, and completely calm.
Maj Sjowall
#21. Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and smaller until at one point, it could be bounded in the hat of a hopeless policeman.
Michael Chabon
#22. Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
Thurgood Marshall
#23. I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.
Gore Vidal
#24. When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.
George Orwell
#25. In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
Abel Hermant
#26. Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.
Paul Auster
#27. Sometimes a policeman must confront people about lying. No one likes to be called a liar. But it is what it is! A fact is a fact! If someone is a liar, put them on notice. You should not be punished for doing the right thing. It is the job of a good investigator to get the truth.
C. Snyder
#28. No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.
H.L. Mencken
#29. The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.
Colin Ward
#30. For men there are costumes like fireman, policeman and vampire. For women there are costumes like slutty fireman, slutty policeman and slutty vampire.
Dana Gould
#31. Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.
Jonathan Haidt
#32. The police were actually adding to my pain and
suffering by pursuing me. If it had been Huntley doing that to me and I had the proof, I would have said, 'Hey, Mr Policeman, Huntley is giving me trouble here,' and then they might have sent him a letter, at the very least.
Stephen Richards
#33. Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
Mark Twain
#34. I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
Lord Salisbury
#35. Sorry I'm late. I got caught jaywalking and had to give the policeman a hand job or pay a seventy-five dollar fine.
Penny Reid
#36. America is the world's policeman, all right
a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a domestic disturbance.
P. J. O'Rourke
#37. I never write metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
Mark Twain
#38. I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace.
Benjamin Watson
#39. If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies.
Henning Mankell
#40. You can't be too careful how you stir up a policeman.
P.G. Wodehouse
#41. He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.
Davis Bunn
#42. There was word that a Secret Service man and a Dallas policeman were dead - so the plot must be widespread.
Jim Bishop
#43. A good Policeman/woman looks for crimes. A bad policeman/woman looks for opportunity.
Richard Diaz
#44. In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
Martin Amis
#45. The police have lost sight of the fact that they are public servants.
Steven Magee
#46. Policeman says, "Son you can't stay here"
I said, "There's someone I'm waiting for if it's a day, a month, a year"
Gotta stand my ground even if it rains or snows
If she changes her mind this is the first place she will go
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#47. Me black and beautiful' was the first thing she taught me. Then she pointed to the policeman with the gun outside and taught me: 'He pig.
V.S. Naipaul
#48. Nobody knew I was coming,' she replied, shocked.
The policeman shook his head and turn to the empty city centre square. 'Everybody knows.
Luke Gracias
#49. The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily likes of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.
Warren E. Burger
#50. It is my assessment that most police officers who spend their days driving around USA cities will have some level
of radiation sickness and this is concerning!
Steven Magee
#51. Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
E.W. Howe
#52. My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.
Bob Odenkirk
#53. Police are inevitably corrupted ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
Frank Herbert
#54. My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.
Olivia Cooke
#55. When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
George Orwell
#56. I've never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don't care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him.
Rand Paul
#57. To hell with you, Buddy. No policeman wants to protect a goddamned atheist. I hope somebody bloodies you up good.
Richard Dawkins
#58. The policeman recognized me, but I suppose that's only natural. Silk was going to kill him, but I said no."
"Why?" Beldin asked bluntly.
"We were in the middle of a busy street for one thing. Killing somebody's the sort of thing you ought to do in private, wouldn't you say?
David Eddings
#59. In Montana, a policeman will pull you over because he is lonely.
Rich Hall
#60. I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
Robin Tunney
#61. All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin
#62. Cupping a cheek in each hand, he lifted her back up to his desk and pressed his hips hard into hers.
Her eyes were worried. "But people keep coming
"
"The next person to come is going to be you," he said.
Jill Shalvis
#63. He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.
P.G. Wodehouse
#64. My brother is a very bad policeman. So ... you're coming to school, right?" Doug
"Nnnnnnno." Zoey
"Come so you can be around people," Doug coaxed. "I don't think you should be alone today."
"I think I definitely should." Zoey
"Come so I won't worry about you." Doug ;]
Jennifer Echols
#65. I don't think America should be the policeman of the world, but we have to be engaged and we have to be a leader, and that comes from strong economic growth, a strong military, good diplomatic efforts, and integrating our business community. I just think it's a whole new paradigm.
John Kasich
#66. Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew
#67. I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.
David Alan Grier
#68. Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.
Trent Reznor
#69. When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman.
Medgar Evers
#70. I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Brendan Behan
#71. When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.
Alfred Molina
#72. I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.
Rand Paul
#73. I was under the impression that one became a policeman because one believes in rules and regulations." "I think Sven became a policeman because he believes in justice.
Fredrik Backman
#74. I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an astronaut and a policeman and a firefighter. At the time I was so young that I actually thought actors were all of those things.
Chris Lowell
#75. I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc ... to find success writing children's novels.
Brian Jacques
#76. So you've got no name?" I asked. "They couldn't think of one ugly enough?"
The creature snarled, stepping over the unconscious policeman.
"Set animal is too hard to say," I decided. "I'll call you Leroy."
Apparently, Leroy didn't like his name. He lunged.
Rick Riordan
#77. The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
Mahatma Gandhi
#78. There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.
William Friedkin
#79. What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician
these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
Polly Adler
#80. Are you . . . a policeman?"
"No. They'll be along shortly, I expect. Public suicide's a felony."
". . . I'm sorry.
James Tiptree Jr.
#81. There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.
Charles Barkley
#82. There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.
Patrick Kavanagh
#83. If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
Ramana Maharshi
#84. Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in Downing Street That he had a brother, who had a friend, Who knew when the war was going to end.
Reginald Arkell
#85. When I was a kid, a policeman was someone you looked up to and respected.
Alan Sugar
#86. Don't worry, sweetheart. I've got lots of toys for us to play with. But that doesn't mean the idea of having a policeman helpless in his own cuffs doesn't still amuse me.
Kim Dare
#87. They met a policeman and brought him back. The man rang the bell several times, but there was no answer. Except for a light in one of the top windows, the house was all dark. After
Oscar Wilde
#89. I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.
John Kasich
#90. A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.
P.G. Wodehouse
#91. Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
W. Somerset Maugham
#92. A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.
Kent McCord
#93. We'll hardly be in a position to discover much if they know you are married to a policeman!" she pointed out. "Let alone the very policeman who is investigating the murders. Added to which, it will do no harm for the general to see you as still unmarried.
Anne Perry
#94. I didn't get the impression that the policeman cared much about the whole thing either. After another thirty minutes of ruthless interrogation ('Can you ve'fy you eat banan' pancake?') he let me go asking me not to leave Khao San within 24 hours
Alex Garland
#95. The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you
disagree as well as those with which you agree.
John F. Kennedy
#96. I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a policeman.
Audrey Niffenegger
#97. U.S. society doesn't want to play the role of international policeman.
Vladimir Putin
#98. Obstinacy is perhaps the only human quality that matters at the end of the day, not only in the profession of the policeman but in many professions. At least in any that have something to do with the notion of truth.
Michel Houellebecq
#99. His clothing marked him as Italian. The cadence of his speech announced that he was Venetian. His eyes were all policeman.
Donna Leon
#100. Waiter, this is not the policeman I ordered. I wanted one with a lot less sauce.
Jennifer Echols
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