325 Quotes by Ben Aaronovitch

The designer had probably been going for Turkish Bath but had hit Czech Porn Shoot instead.

Cicero wouldn’t approve of my writing style, but at least I pronounce his name with a hard C.

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.

Whatever you see, he’d said, take as long a look as you need to get used to it, to accept it, and then move on as if nothing has changed.

Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that’ Dizzy Gillespie.

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.

Libertarians and criminals complain about the surveillance state when they see a camera. Police officers complain about it when they don’t.

Your ghost,′ she said, ‘Nicholas Nickleby. Do you think he might still be at the crime scene?’ ‘How should I know?’ I said. ‘I don’t even believe in ghosts.

It’s not like me and Lesley are inconspicuous,’ I’d said. Nightingale had winced, as he always does, at my incorrect use of the accusative pronoun but I think I’m beginning to wear him down.