"Not being invited in is one of the……" — Ben Aaronovitch
"Not being invited in is one of the boxes on the “suspicious behavior” bingo form that every copper carries around in their head along with “stupidly overpowerful dog” and being too quick to supply an alibi. Fill all the boxes and you too could win an all-expenses-paid visit to your local police station."
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34 Quotes by Ben Aaronovitch
Ben Aaronovitch has 34 quotes on this site.
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Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.
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What do you think you're doing?
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Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
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The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they…
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When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults…
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He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important…
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Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science…
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I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?
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The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion…
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Are they really gods?" "I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can…
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You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale.…
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...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
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More Alibi Quotes
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
— Albert Camus
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are…
— Albert Camus
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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
— Napoleon Hill
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Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions…
— Gough Whitlam
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There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
— Jerry Orbach
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You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self…
— Christy Mathewson
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Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
— Henry Iba
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If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you…
— Fred Beck
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The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves…
— Isabel Paterson
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
— Andrea Gibson
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Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls,…
— Mae West
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