Crime Quotes
Nobody knows this crime territory better than Mark Langan. His authentic experience proves that he is an expert in telling a story worth listening to. --Alex Kava, NY Times Bestselling Crime Novelist
Jack the Ripper – media myth arising when clever individual murderers concocted a monster so as to avoid suspicion.
No crime too small’ was never exactly Moriarty’s slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented.
Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I’m on parole, that I’m not really free.
The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.
Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.
Speaking of banging, when’s McSailor getting home?” Kirsten’s smirk was the size of Texas.Sophie had to smile. “Crude. You’re crude, roomie.
Her recoil confirmed the disgust Grant felt inside. Who was he kidding, trying to put Vladimir and Andrei behind bars? He was no different from his father. Then he remembered Sophie’s
Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.
But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.
If you are a good hacker everybody knows you, But if you are a great hacker nobody knows you.
A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison — by the employment contract that he has signed.
I was struck by the image of Daddy still dressed in that same plaid shirt and undershirt with the bloodstains below the neck, the one I had first seen him wearing in the jail the previous day.
It is romantic, yes, ’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun’.
There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.
Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
If you want to kill serious crime, you have to kill serious criminals!
I am not their f*****g entertainment. And I am not a f*****g hero! Given the choice, a hero would do exactly the same again. I wouldn’t. Okay?
Everywhere on our planet one hand greases another. Often it's done with a bloated face, wearing a serpent's smile. M.Sullivan
Like a submarine ejecting ballast, he bobbed to the surface as another sense pulled his eyelids all the way open like roller blinds in the old cartoons.
I put fear into the eyes of a member of the Mafia. I’m doing well, she thought, now keep him scared.
If a deadly snake slithering around in a pre-school bit a child, would you box it up for a month as punishment, and then release it to prey upon the children once again?
Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime.
It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more intense. And I could see the glint of the carrion flies.
They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of it.
It is so good that you can love someone for how long you want and no one can arrest you for that crime.
There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.
Cursed greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. -- Virgil
Eve: "Where's Mister Scary?"Roarke: "Summerset has the night off."Eve: "You mean the house is Summerset-free? Damn shame we have to waste it with work.
Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.
There's an old saying, " Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.
We thought we were invincible and Dominic proved us all wrong, ” - Jesse Carlisle
One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture
Rape is a more heinous crime than murder since the rape victim dies throughout the period she lives.
Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.
Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.
(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.
Violence was second nature to the psychopathic and ultra-violent Stephen Moyle, who was already a seasoned street fighter, after having half his face torn off in a street fight with three other men.