Crime Quotes


Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.
Henry fielding (1707-1754) English novelist, dramatist.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
George Farquhar (1678-1707) Irish dramatist.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendour, number, and excess.
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, satirist.

Successful crimes alone are justified.
John Dryden (1631-1700) English Poet, dramatist.

He threatens many that hath injured one.
Ben Jonson (1573-1637) English dramatist, poet.

Abscond. To “move” in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God’s message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author.

A thief believes everybody steals.
Ed (E.W.) Howe (1853-1937) American journalist, novelist.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O.Henry (1862-1910) American short story writer.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet (1910-1986) French dramatist.

Far more university graduates are becoming criminals every year than are becoming police men.
Philip Goodheart (b. 1925) British Conservative politician.

When rich villains have need of poor villains, poor ones may make what price they will.

If weakness may excuse, what murder, what traitor, parricide, incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness.
John Milton (16081674) English Poet.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Heaven will permit no man to crime heaven finds a witness.
Bulwer.

Of all the adult male criminals in London, not two in a hundred have entered upon a course of crime who have lived an honest life up to the age of twenty. Almost all who enter on a course of crime do so between the ages of eight and sixteen.
Shaftesbury.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
Hare.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Racine.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Voltaire.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are gather corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.
Napoleon.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes, are ever backward to suspect others.
Rochefoucauld.

It is supposable that in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but in degree of wickedness.
Willmott.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
Emerson.

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them.
Bruyere.

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