WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 06 May 2026 15:03:54 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Scottsh – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Aaronovitch, Ben -- Moon Over Soho (2011) https://wist.info/aaronovitch-ben/31255/ https://wist.info/aaronovitch-ben/31255/#respond Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:49:49 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=31255 “Would you like me to arrest you?” I asked. That’s an old police trick: If you just warn people they often just ignore you, but if you ask them a question then they have to think about it. Once they start to think about the consequences they almost always calm down, unless they’re drunk of course, or stoned, or aged between fourteen and twenty-one, or Glaswegian.


Ben Aaronovitch (b. 1964) British author
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