Crime Quotes

I think my reputation will look after itself, " Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.

POVERTY CRIME When you push peopleInto the throes of povertyThey tend to think their value lowAnd so do they yours They will not think it graveTo lose their low valued livesAnd so will they not yours

The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life sentence.

Just calm down and think, sir. Think. Where is your wife?

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.Winston Churchill

Be careful what you say...you might end up in my next book!

You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!

Trap is a four-letter word, and like so many four-letter words it can mean something entirely else.--Hugo Anstead

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow - James Matthew Barrie

I'm not paid to feel. Just fix."- Sydney Chang

My heart is an empty refrigerator.

How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.

I don’t mind my friends calling me “Thornes, ” but the fact of people calling me “Prickly Thornes” draws the line.

Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !

You’re a real cowboy.”

Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain.

When the lights suddenly go out, hold onto your diamonds for dear life. - Nancy Drew, The Mystery of Lilac Inn

You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you.

A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.

She was a cute as a washtub.

The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid.

In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin’s roofline a bursting fireball.

Just the night before, a puma’s howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn’t get any richer than that.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach

No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.

When it came to watching television, Ted was ambidextrous.

There are times when you have to commit a crime to prevent an even bigger one. At least, that’s what I tell myself when I can’t sleep at night.

Every man will tell you little boys should not play with dolls but ask any mother and they will tell you, every little boy has gone to sleep cuddled into one at one time in there life.

At night in the town's countryside, you could just about feel and hear everything, but without using lamps, it was impossible to see anything other than shadows

Paoletta turned to him with a dark face. Chase had never seen her look so foreboding.“You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s passed over to the evil side.

Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn’t look like the proper place for you, ” said Chase.

Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail.

Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.“You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s passed over to the evil side.

The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It’s the karma effect, ” Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her words would become prophetic so soon.

It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl’s boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using his British friendliness and charm.

Finally, the water level topped off, leaving him with no more air to breathe. He drew his last breath and slipped down deep into the darkness that claimed his soul.

Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.

Emotional speculation is to deductive reasoning what weeds are to a garden – at first sight they appear to belong, but eventually they obscure that which one hopes will come into bud.

I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and practicing law for ten years. Not sure what I am now.

I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.

He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company

You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.

Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?

All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.

Redemption is for the weak. The strong keep sinning

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.

Anyone called upon to view misery will view criminality differently. All state officials should be required to spend a month serving in a homeless shelter to learn love.