Crime Quotes

In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’...

Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence. It had been his ambition to learn "...

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. ...

When I started off, I believed that the true determinant of how great I was was through my lifestyle...

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religi...

Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible....

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

President Josiah Bartlet: Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.D...

A curse burns bright on crime.

Her sleep was enlivened by several dreams. One where Professor Wanstead's bushy eyebrows fell off be...

It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But y...

I like a good detective story," he said. "But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin w...

If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that the...

I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possible because only the peopl...

It's all very well to talk like that,” said Mr. Rafiel. “We, you say? What do you think I can do abo...

The Roar of the engine penetrated through Bertram's Hotel from the street outside. Colonel Luscombe ...

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A crimin...

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was...

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"It will not."If...

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absu...

Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discover...

She breathed an enormous sigh, looked at Poirot, Looked away, and suddenly blurted out, "You're too ...

For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea — that is, a criminal act ...

Murder, other than in the most strict forensic sense, is never soluble. That dark human clot can nev...

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everyb...

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear bei...

But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons ...

How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of t...

And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smil...

The actual history of interracial rape - according to FBI statistics - is that, since the 70's, appr...

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convin...

The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals tog...

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, ...

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most m...

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our professi...

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I ...

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how...

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a speciali...

That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a pe...

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that...

I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, bu...

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with bui...

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so ...

So I'm over there in England, you know, trying to get news about the [L.A.] riots... and all these B...

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely t...

I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine house in London, and when he went for months of summe...

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. Th...

Nature can counsel nothing but crime.

Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of evil, and that all he saw of children was their being...

We’ve got DNA tests; we can convict someone by his saliva. Hell, if the killer had farted in that ho...

What makes you think I’d know this woman?’ Hunter knew what he was trying to do. ‘Listen, P-Diddy . ...

He’s my new partner JJ and I don’t think he likes you very much. Last guy he took a dislike to still...

Hunter let go of JJ who started dusting his jacket with both hands. ‘Look at what you’ve done to my ...

To start with, the overwhelming majority of serial killers are male,’ Hunter explained. ‘Female seri...

Fuck you! Someone has tortured and killed one of your girls and you couldn’t give a damn? I thought ...

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's...

The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobb...

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But th...

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for de...

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital puni...

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair q...

Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.

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

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice he...

David Thomas: What do you think is the worst crime that could possibly be committed? What is the cri...

As an artist you look into yourself to understand the human potential to be all kinds of things that...

Drug addicts driven to crime to finance their drug addiction are not often inclined toward violent c...

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fasci...

...but wasn't everyone in England supposed to be a detective? Wasn't every crime, no matter how comp...

When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And t...

A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if look...

You Englishmen,’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were...

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, alth...

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of c...

Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior ...

But if you were investigating a crime,” said Lady Swaffham, “you’d have to begin by the usual things...