Crime Quotes

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered behaviour from the public.

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and doesn’t let go, even after you’ve closed the book.

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.

So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.

Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

The ultimate crime is not to care.

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage

My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over with my brother and I being the victims sometimes.

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

If somebody here in America is against war crime and against stealing lands from Palestinians by Jews, he's already not allowed into Israel.

Many of the local institutions and politicians and veterinarians are involved in illegal trade. To crack that down, it's a big crime and big names to reveal.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?

Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.

Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice.

If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

It’s getting a little chilly in here! Why don’t we sit by the fireplace and I’ll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.

We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough.Close enough.

His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.