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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They had all known one another a long time, they knew they were complicit victims, and they had no doubt about who the whistleblower was: she, the only one who behaved from the start as if the need to work didn't go hand in hand with the need to be humiliated.
Elena Ferrante -
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
F. Sionil Jose -
I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.
Fergus Henderson -
Scars are proof of survival, they shouldn’t be hidden—it’s a story someone may need to see in order to believe that beyond their pain and suffering, there is healing.
Bernice L. McFadden -
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