Crime Quotes

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

Our media, which is very open and report on really everything, tend to exaggerate the crime issue...This is why one gets the impression that we have much more crime than other countries.

I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

Crooks are early adopters.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

I do not see how hanging litter louts up by their heels and beating them with sticks could be considered a crime.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.

Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.

The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel. This book harkens the arrival of a major new voice.

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

Punishment follows close on crime.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes