What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable…

“Is that you, Sergeant Angua?" said a voice in the gloom. A lantern was open, and lit the approaching face of Constable Visit. As…

— Terry Pratchett

“Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that…

— Erich Maria Remarque

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write…

— Moliere

“Poor devils! After all, they were not evil things of their kind. They were the men of another age and another order of being.…

— H.P. Lovecraft

Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.

— Theophile Gautier

“Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.”

— Stephen King

I played a constable in 'Singham,' in 2011. Though the role was small, it was appreciated.

— Ashok Saraf

“Painter" "I said you are only keeping me here in the hospital, lying to my parents and saying I am madder than I am,…

— Robert Lowell

Constable himself knew the value of such studies, for he rarely parted with them. He used to say of his studies and pictures that…

— John Constable

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without…

— Neal Stephenson

“Whose house is that, Constable?”

— Oscar Wilde

If a constable is a woman, she does the same job as a man.

— Amarinder Singh

The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class.…

— Ben Aaronovitch

“This is not drawing,' he cried, 'this is inspiration!' 'I had meant it to be drawing,' was Constable's characteristic answer.”

— Aldous Huxley

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.

— John Selden