Best Muggers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Celebrities are like the perpetrators of crime in that they appear out of nowhere when you least expect it and are usually gone before you know what's happened.”

“Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.”

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Author:A. A. Gill

“On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about us is that we are a bunch of muggers.”

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Author:Fred Shero

“Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.”

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Author:Michael Howard

“I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else. So when I was a teen I reached out in a wrong way. I started to be a mugger, to rob people in the streets, just to supply for my needs.”

People Way Needs Wanted School Streets Disguise Wrong Way Muggers

Author:George Foreman

“Time is the mother and mugger of us all.”

Mother Time All Time Muggers

Book:The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed

Source: The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed

“After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.”

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Author:Barbara Tuchman

“I'm starting to like muggers more than congressmen. At least the muggers don't claim they're doing you a favor.”

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Author:Paul Jacob

“There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in a kind of floating trance at how challenging and moving they are. They are films with a profound reluctance to get over themselves. They look up at the sceptical observer with the saucer-eyed saintliness of a baby seal in culling season, or a charity mugger smilingly wishing a nice day on the retreating back of a passer-by. One such is Babel.”

“The more women walk around in sweat pants, the harder it is to tell who's out jogging and who's running away from a mugger.”

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Author:Dana Gould

“I think, the left makes a mistake. If you look particularly at the state levels, violent repeat criminals are not punished enough. The average murderer is sentenced to 17 1/2 years but serves six. The average rapist is sentenced to 10 years but serves about three and a half. The average mugger is sentenced to five years and serves little more than one.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

“I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

“In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.”

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Author:John Major

“I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.”

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Author:Dylan Moran

“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“You're barely even wearing a shirt! What are you going to do if a mugger jumps out at you, flash them?”

Ifs Shirts Flash Muggers

Book:The Demon's Covenant

Source: The Demon's Covenant

“Clary grinned. "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of - " He waved a hand. "Faeries. I know." "I was going to say muggers," said Clary. "Though I pity the mugger who goes after you." "That is a wise attitude, and I commend you for it," said Jace, looking gratified.”

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Author:Cassandra Clare

“Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.”

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Author:L. Neil Smith

“The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it.”

Made Night Mask Muggers

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.”

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Author:Mario Cuomo

“The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.”

People Matter Truth Interesting Crime Winner Very Interesting Muggers

Book:Michael Winner: Winner Takes All: A Life of Sorts

Source: Michael Winner: Winner Takes All: A Life of Sorts

“An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.”

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Author:Luke Scott

“On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.”

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Author:Dara O Briain

“Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!”

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Book:Timequake

Source: Timequake

“A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I believe has contributed greatly to this country's amazing vigour and enterprise.”

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Author:Ian Wooldridge

“It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet and the mugger ran off into the woods, I thought, 'Thank you for not shooting me.' I was overwhelmingly glad to be alive and unharmed.”

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Author:Juliana Hatfield

“In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and the mugger come out of the anonymous dark, their faces unrecognized, their motives obscure.”

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Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic