Charles Dickens Quotes
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.Charles Dickens
Quotes to Explore
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
Vicki Delany -
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
J. Edgar Hoover -
A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
Natsuo Kirino
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
Irene Peter -
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac -
What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
Pat Brown -
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos -
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
Karin Slaughter -
I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
Kate Mosse
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers -
I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
Octavia Spencer -
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
Ida B. Wells -
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
Karin Slaughter -
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
Calvin Klein -
Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
Sally Yates
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Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
Douglas Jerrold -
A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
Smiles are like that. They come and go.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
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.
Charles Dickens