Crime Quotes - Page 35

• Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

  Ariana Franklin

  Names, Identity, Addresses

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• Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.

  Alafair Burke

  Dope, Intelligence, Sides

  Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.51, Macmillan

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• even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?

  Frances Noyes Hart

  Witty, Believe, Punishment

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• Real crime-beat investigative journalism does seem to be really dwindling, especially in this age with everything being centered around iPhones. Everyone's a journalist today, essentially. Every pedestrian on the street has the potential of capturing a big story on their mobile device and then selling it and making a lot of money.

  Megan Fox

  Real, Iphone, Age

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Lying, Knowing, Age

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• Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt
  Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on
  The troubled waters of a lake,
  'Twill form in circles round succeeding round;
  Each wider than the first.

  George Colman the Elder

  Lakes, Circles, Water

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• I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Government, Israel, Years

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• 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.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Swimming, Color, Cold

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, film.avclub.com. September 28, 2011.

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• Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Husband, Wife, Adultery

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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• I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.

  Robert Graves

  Done, Empires, Consideration

  Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Thee

  William Shakespeare (1865). “Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, with notes, adapted for schools and for private study by J. Hunter”, p.72

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• Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

  Samuel Johnson

  Riches, Produce, Accusers

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.68

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• If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

  Samuel Johnson

  Punishment, Adequate, Vices

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.267

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• No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.

  Jim Caviezel

  Race, People, Action

  "Jim Caviezel Talks About Playing Christ in 'The Passion'". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

  Hill Harper

  Brother, Community, Poison

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• adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same time we discover free will. I wonder that it doesn't tear us off our bases for good and all.

  Grace Zaring Stone

  Tears, Vices, Wonder

  Ethel Vance, Grace Zaring Stone (1942). “Reprisal”

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• Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes.

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

  Laetitia Pilkington

  Merit, Reputation, Lost

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• A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

  Narendra Modi

  Democracy, India, Criminals

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• With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

  John Banville

  Book, Crime Novels, Protagonists

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• We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.

  Don DeLillo

  Night, Light, Noon

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Valparaiso”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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• It is necessary to reaffirm our solid opposition to any direct offense against life, especially when innocent and defenseless, and the unborn child in its mother's womb is the quintessence of innocence. Let us remember the words of Vatican Council II: 'Therefore from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes.'

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, Abortion

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• When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

  Albert Camus

  Fall, Responsibility, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

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• Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, United States, Needs

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.146, Psychology Press

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• In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Mystery, Involved

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