Famous quotes containing the words state, fire and/or police:
“The Australian mind, I can state with authority, is easily boggled.”
—Charles Osborne (b. 1927)
“Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful;
And pity to the general wrong of Rome
As fire drives out fire, so pity pity
Hath done this deed on Caesar.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the authors own conscience.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
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