Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

Let's not hate ourselves.  We are all we have.  We cannot change anything until we accept that.  I cannot do this alone.  I don't love myself enough to do it alone, but I can do it if we have a pact, if I am keeping up my end of the bargain.  I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in.  I have had enough.

Let's stop the drugs and the crime from pouring into our country.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.

Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

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.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

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

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another.

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

My job is to investigate whether or not a crime is committed, can be proved and should be charged. I'm not going to comment on what to make beyond that. You know, it's not my jurisdiction, not my job, not my judgment.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.

Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

Never open your mouth,unless you're in the dentist chair

Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.

No crime has been without a precedent.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.