Crime Quotes
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
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As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.
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There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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The intention makes the crime.
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Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
