London Copper Quote by Ben Aaronovitch

“It would be fair to say that the coppers in Amersham jail didn’t take much of a shine to me. My little dance, my…

— Ozzy Osbourne

“He was new to London in those days, and he had not liked it. He had not cared for the intensity of the traffic,…

— William Trevor

“And if these objecting London-born men stuck their faces past their own dirty alleys — oh, far edges of the world — then they…

— Michelle Butler Hallett

“You may get cheated, robbed, and murdered, in London. But there are plenty of people anywhere, who'll do that for you.”

— Charles Dickens

“Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures…

— Raymond Chandler

“You realise that people actually have to live in among all this and that east London is the bill, the tab that these cunts…

— John Niven

“You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on…

— Garry Crystal

“Just as soldiers at their best cannot be equalled in courage, so at their worst nobody can excel them in vandalism.”

— Dennis Bardens

“Police only have to see that me don’t have no shoes before he say what the bloodcloth you nasty naiggers doing ’round decent people,…

— Marlon James

“I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“London is where people go in order to come back from it sadder and wiser.”

— Martin Amis

London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in…

— Henry James