Top 140 Karl Wiggins Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Just how boring are Arsenal fans?”

— Karl Wiggins

2. “There will be times in your life when you need to remain low key. Not everyone needs to know everything about you. Not everyone deserves to know the real you. If they want to criticise you for who they think you are, then let them make that mistake. But you’re not responsible for their thoughts.”

— Karl Wiggins

3. “Bessie Stringfield epitomised the Carefree Scamp. She wasn’t trying to be any sort of inspiration for black women or female bikers. She was just living her life. It was her road and she knew that no one else could ride it for her.”

— Karl Wiggins

4. “I hate people who say, “Good moaning,” instead of, “Good morning.” What kind of a wanker, are they? I’ll tell you. It’s their little joke, you see. They view it as a clever play on words, changing one letter to make a completely different word. Do you get it? By changing the ‘r’ in morning to an ‘a’ the whole meaning of the word changes. Do you see how witty they are? WANKEEERRRSS!!!!”

— Karl Wiggins

5. “As a Wrong Planet person you may at times appear to be unsociable. You’re often dispassionate when it comes to the activities of others because they seem so mediocre to you. You sometimes find it disappointing to make friends with people who you just can’t relate to. And because of this from time to time you find yourself alone, although you don’t mind this. It’s simply that people don’t always cut it for you.”

— Karl Wiggins

6. “Life is sexy music, spicy-hot enchiladas and stacks of yellowed journals. It is the salsa and the gossip that floats on city breezes.”

— Karl Wiggins

7. “The Gypsies are living poetry.”

— Karl Wiggins

8. “It’s almost impossible to prevent Chavs from breeding, but when a Chav reproduces evolution is halted and devolution commences. Chavs truly are the missing link of society.”

— Karl Wiggins

9. “You’re not supposed to agree with everything I say. It’s okay to disagree. It doesn’t make you right and me wrong, and it certainly doesn’t make me right and you wrong. It’s just opinion. So it’s not whether you agree with my opinions or not that matter. What matters is that you respect them. And conversely that I respect your opinions. You can disagree with me, you can argue with me, and you can be different from me, but don’t ever try and shut me up.”

— Karl Wiggins

10. “Go to the community and the locations that have set a sparkle in your psyche. That’s how you find your Tribe.”

— Karl Wiggins

11. “Banks are nothing but old fashioned money lenders. They encourage you to borrow, to get in debt, and when you can’t pay back the loan they take your home away. At least a money lender only breaks your legs.”

— Karl Wiggins

12. “Arab merchants with their long caravans of camels traded Indian spices, hemp, opium and Chinese silk along the Incense Route which linked the Mediterranean world with Egypt, Arabia, India and Java. Although the merchants risked robbery and slavery along the way, the rich women of the Roman Empire could enjoy the perfumes of frankincense and myrrh, the flavours of Eastern spices, and the juices of exotic fruits such as guava, muskmelon and pomegranate.”

— Karl Wiggins

13. “These do-gooders, these life coaches who surround themselves with fake friends evangelise about a blissful life without struggle, but is a life without combat really worth living? True love, for instance, is hard. And it isn’t fair. And it really hurts like hell sometimes. True love comes out of chaos.”

— Karl Wiggins

14. “The Gypsy heart is full of wonder, their souls deep with dreams and their inspiration full of mystery.”

— Karl Wiggins

15. “Once in a lifetime, if we’re lucky, a Sixteen-String Jack Rann crosses our paths, and if we’re really lucky he or she becomes a friend. You’ll know them because even though they may be scoundrels they affect all those around them positively. They will be larger than life characters who will draw people to them without any intentional effort whatsoever. And they’ll make people smile.”

— Karl Wiggins

16. “Homeless people go to bed freezing and wake up shaking in the morning, even if they have a sleeping bag. If they don’t have a sleeping bag, it’s unlikely they’ll get any sleep during the night. They shake all night and sleep during the day. If it wasn’t for the soup runs many of these people would die. So I say that people who’ve been unable to find a job should be ‘volunteered’ into food bank work.”

— Karl Wiggins

17. “Due to the Jat uprising we missed our train to Shimla, which was a disappointment. Jats are fierce and lawless, and when they fight they don’t care if they live or die. So we opted for Mussoorie instead, where we found people more chilled out and mellow than any others we had met in India. The mountain air must do that for them.”

— Karl Wiggins

18. “Gypsies have no boundaries. They have primitive, untamed personalities and ’that look in their eyes.”

— Karl Wiggins

19. “If we bend over backwards to help immigrants and they throw that assistance back in our faces by committing crime then the punitive sentences should be double what would normally be expected, and upon serving their sentence they should be deported immediately.”

— Karl Wiggins

20. “For a shy person it’s hard enough to overcome self-consciousness and establish personal relationships with others without having the additional hindrance of a well-meaning but misguided relative who only emphasises that person’s limitations.”

— Karl Wiggins

21. “Marilyn Monroe was a Carefree Scamp and she often felt like she didn’t belong, as if she’d somehow landed on the Wrong Planet. Clearly she wouldn’t phrase it that way, but throughout her life she was searching for members of her own tribe.”

— Karl Wiggins

22. “Being a lunatic isn’t so bad, but to be a lunatic AND be wrong would be bleak, man!”

— Karl Wiggins

23. “To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.” Charles Caleb Colton 1825.”

— Karl Wiggins

24. “Maxims of Ptahhotep spoke a lot of sense; ‘Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.’ Now THAT I’ll give the green light to. The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable as precious stones.”

— Karl Wiggins

25. “What a potpourri of emotions are mixed up in this one. Passion, heartache, exaltation, distress, fascination, anguish, enchantment, remorse, jubilation, defeatism.”

— Karl Wiggins

26. “The laughing, joking court jester, who is in reality a Shaman, has all the respect of a king, for there has always been an element of danger lurking about beneath the surface of his smile.”

— Karl Wiggins

27. “In ten days and 3000 kilometres we never even scratched the surface.”

— Karl Wiggins

28. “Anybody who has been on Jobseeker’s Allowance for more than six months must carry out some form of community work to earn their money.”

— Karl Wiggins

29. “A Warrior-Sage will never ever crap about his situation. He knows that nobody wants to hear it anyway and, more to the point, he knows that HE doesn’t want to hear it.”

— Karl Wiggins

30. “Emperor Haile Selassie was certainly a defining figure in both Ethiopian and African history, and as Rastafarians revere Haile Selassie as the returned messiah, it’s possible that the routes of Rastafarianism are deep-seated in the Queen of Sheba. Trip on that! A queen who was part Genie, or Djinn, is possibly the focus of Rastafarianism.”

— Karl Wiggins

31. “Life is apple rings fried in bacon, followed by a walk on the beach, raging winds driving the rain sideways. Life is frosty nights and blue-sky days.”

— Karl Wiggins

32. “You’re hardly likely to find a Chav mating with a lady of charm, beauty and sophistication, are you? The subsidised breeding farms they live in are unlikely to attract a lady who has cultivated proper deportment, and it’s doubtful she’ll be swayed by his shell suit, Burberry cap and Vauxhall Corsa.”

— Karl Wiggins

33. “The black sheep? You and I are more like the tie-dyed sheep!”

— Karl Wiggins

34. “We passed the great arid deserts of the West, driving through canyons and beneath rocky outcroppings and over great crevasses. We drove through the Mojave Desert, Owens Valley and Death Valley, and the dust entered our bloodstream and flowed through to every part of our body. The West was both eerie and breathtakingly beautiful, and we wanted to live there forever.”

— Karl Wiggins

35. “For the Gypsy, it’s moments in time that count, not interpretations or rhetorical questions or resolutions or justifications, and not even the journey’s end, for the journey never ends. Just moments in time. They are born for disappearing.”

— Karl Wiggins

36. “India, it’s the centre of the world. A land of intense contrasts, and if it wasn’t for Kingfisher beer and chicken bacon we felt we could live there forever.”

— Karl Wiggins

37. “Anything that makes you distinct from others is precisely who you’re here to be. Not someone who ‘fits in’ with everyone else.”

— Karl Wiggins

38. “The problem you and I have, as Wrong Planet people, is not so much that we mean everything we say, but we expect that everyone else does to.”

— Karl Wiggins

39. “Death is a pigeon flying off with straw in its beak, romance riding its shoulder as it heads for home.”

— Karl Wiggins

40. “I believe the Law of the Land should allow migrants three months on benefits and then the benefits cease.”

— Karl Wiggins

41. “Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, is another person who I like. I like her sassy ass. I think Sheryl has an ungodly amount of cool.”

— Karl Wiggins

42. “If everyone’s going to think of me as a lunatic then I may as well benefit from it. At least it’ll redeem me from being mediocre.”

— Karl Wiggins

43. “The Gypsies favour hazardous and threatening freedom over serene and tranquil servitude any day of the week.”

— Karl Wiggins

44. “Quotes from Ancient Greece are mostly all bollocks.”

— Karl Wiggins

45. “You see what your mother-in-law hasn’t yet realised is that she’s the one who needs to hold out the olive branch, not you, because she’s the one who’s going to want to come around more and more in the future to see her grand-kids. SHE needs to make friends with YOU, not the other way around.”

— Karl Wiggins

46. “Millwall fans are an earthy bunch, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but many of them lack social graces, and the demographics are far removed from architect’s impressions of the New Den, which is a superb ground.”

— Karl Wiggins

47. “I do have a sneaking admiration for anyone who has the intelligence to plan a ‘job’ properly and the courage to carry it out. As long as no one gets hurt and the target is a bank or an insurance company.”

— Karl Wiggins

48. “The Scamp’s devil-may-care attitude often means that he or she is sexually desirable to other people.”

— Karl Wiggins

49. “Let’s face it, if what you do is good, then you have God’s blessing anyway. And if what you do is bad, then a priest’s blessing isn’t going to make the slightest bit of difference.”

— Karl Wiggins

50. “In every glass of water we drink there are molecules once urinated by Genghis Khan.”

— Karl Wiggins