Best 1852 quotes in «crime quotes» category

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.]

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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 open your mouth,unless you're in the dentist chair

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

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

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

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

No crime has been without a precedent.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.

Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it's getting worse.

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.

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

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.

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

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Obamacare is a crime against democracy.

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.

One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

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