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Top 250 Ben Aaronovitch Quotes (2024 Update)

Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “What do you think you’re doing?”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Blackstone’s Police Operational Handbook recommends the ABC of serious investigation: Assume nothing, Believe nothing, and Check everything.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn’t set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Aut viam inveniam aut faciam,’ I said which means, ‘I’ll either find a way or make one.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Keep breathing,’ I said. ‘It’s a habit you don’t want to break.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “As Conan the Barbarian famously said, “That which does not kill us does not kill us.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Science doesn’t have all the answers, you know.” “It’s got all the best questions, though,” I said.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “If there was ever a candidate to be patron saint of computers then it would be Alan Turing. Mathematician, war hero and tragic victim of homophobia.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “The bouncer scrutinized my face. “Do I know you?” he asked. No, I thought, but you might remember me from such Saturday-night hits as “Would you please put that punter down I’d like to arrest him,” “You can stop kicking him now, the ambulance has arrived,” and the classic “If you don’t back off right now I’m going to nick you as well.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “But as the wise man said, life’s too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “I’m sorry, I couldn’t find “a good song” in your music. – Siri.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “The laws of thermodynamics were very clear on the subject – all debts must be paid in full.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Round and round and round we go and where we stop nobody knows.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “The voice belonged to a plump, round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “The first rule about a black woman’s hair is you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair. And the second rule is you don’t ever touch a black woman’s hair without getting written permission first.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “When the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, the British, in time-honoured fashion, abandoned their allies. Who were subsequently wiped out by the Americans along with any other tribes that happened to be in the same general vicinity – even those that had actually been allied with the US government during the war. It’s exactly this sort of thing, of course, which gives colonialism a bad name.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “My dad once told me that the secret to a happy life was never to start something with a girl unless you were willing to follow wherever it led. It’s the best piece of advice he has ever given me, and probably the reason I was born.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “I suspected Molly wanted the pictures to send to her friends on Twitter and Facebook, the ones that I was not supposed to know about. I didn’t dare ask because we have an unspoken agreement – I don’t question what she does on my computer when I’m out and, in return, she doesn’t murder me in my sleep. Back.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “He said it was wife’s idea to name their daughter after him but I didn’t believe him. Could have been worse, I decided. It could have been Nigella.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “It’s a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Like a lot of London, Richmond town centre had been laid out back when town planning was something that happened to other people.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “In the 1960s the planning department of the London County Council, whose unofficial motto was Finishing What the Luftwaffe Started, decided that what London really needed was a series of orbital motorways driven through its heart.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Peter Grant,’ I said. ‘Recent arrival, slacker and man of very little fame.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I’m not a country person. I don’t like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “People don’t like to speak ill of the dead even when they’re monsters, let alone when they’re loved ones. People like to forget any bad things that someone did and why should they remember?”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Sinister is Latin for ‘left’, making it the sort of enjoyable schoolboy pun that is such an advert for mixed-gender education.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Step Two: don’t panic. When Nightingale was training me he said that if you’re not dead in the first instance, then your chances of survival are much improved. ‘By how much?’ I’d asked. ‘That depends,’ said Nightingale. ‘On what?’ ‘On what happens next,’ he said.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Never diss somebody’s mum, never play chess with the Kurdish mafia, and never lie down with a woman who’s more magical than you are. I.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I’ve got a big stick.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you’re born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train’s pulled into Piccadilly Circus they’ve become a Londoner.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Cicero wouldn’t approve of my writing style, but at least I pronounce his name with a hard C.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “It was a good plan, and like all plans since the dawn of time, this would fail to survive contact with real life.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It’s not your garden, it’s not a park – it’s a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer’s plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “Now, personally, I’d have been happier driving an armored personnel carrier in through the front door. But since we’re the Met, and not the police department of a small town in Missouri, we didn’t have one.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “A romantic,” said Nightingale much, much later. “The most dangerous people on Earth.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “There’s always a secret door,” I said. “That’s why you always need a thief in your party.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “One thing for certain, Abigail who lived up the road was going on my watch list. In fact I was going to create a watch list just so I could put Abigail at the top of it.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “I’d found a seventeenth-century map of the rivers of London.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there’s someone else to do the housework.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “I didn’t think that Herefordshire Social Services would be best pleased about me dumping a poorly socialised pre-teen with mind control powers on them.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn’t know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.”
Ben Aaronovitch Quote: “This book is dedicated to all librarians everywhere – for they are the true keepers of the secret flame and not to be trifled with.”
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