Policeman Quotes

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. (Charlie Chaplin)
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. View quote
Billy Wilder
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. View quote
Florence Nightingale
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. View quote
Joseph Conrad
You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation. View quote
Alex Cox
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. View quote
Kent McCord
Nature, when planning this sterling fellow, shoved in a lot more lower jaw than was absolutely necessary and made the eyes a bit too keen and piercing for one who was neither an Empire builder nor a traffic policeman. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
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? View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war. View quote
Jeane Kirkpatrick
The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder. (Richard J. Daley)
You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat. View quote
Joe Strummer
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. View quote
Walter Lippmann
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week. View quote
Warren E. Burger
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. View quote
Nico
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. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
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. View quote
Patricia Highsmith
I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels. View quote
Brian Jacques
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" *. View quote
George Balanchine
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)
What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me. View quote
Dennis Farina
I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen. View quote
Robin Tunney
Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight. View quote
Groucho Marx
Let me give you an example that encapsulates the whole difference between America and Singapore. America has a vicious drug problem. How does it solve it? It goes around the world helping other anti-narcotic agencies to try and stop the suppliers... Singapore does not have that option. What we can do is to pass a law which says that any customs officer or policeman who sees anybody in Singapore behaving suspiciously... can require that man to have his urine tested. If the sample is found to contain drugs, the man immediately goes for treatment. In America if you did that it would be an invasion of the individual's rights and you would be sued. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew