Quotes About Crime

We grew up on Scorsese and Coppola and '70s crime thrillers.

If I see one more forensics show, I'm gonna throw up.

Thugs who brutalize elderly people should be punished severely.

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.

I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,

i like the book my bloody life because it tell what gange related do and what makeks them feel bad

How did the care worker die?' 'Apparently I murdered her.

There are many different types of crime like infanticide, homicide, matricide, killing of cows etc. But not acknowledging the existence of God in all living beings, makes one guilty of the most terrible crime of killing the indweller God who resides in all beings.

Je crois que je comprends, lança Andréa avec un soupir exaspéré. Mais ce n'est pas aussi simple que tu sembles le croire. Tu es en train de me demander de commettre un crime... de voler des lettres. – Mais ce sont mes lettres. – Je pense que la loi a un autre point de vue, fit Andréa sévèrement. – Oh... la loi rétorqua Claire, en réglant d'un geste vague le sort des justices française et britannique réunies.

He was still assuming the guilty party was a man, which was likely, after all. Women killed with poison; men made a science of inflicting pain.

I'd met him about five years back on the Case of the Kleptomaniacal Occultist

No doubt Gervase Fen or Peter Wimsey would immediately have grasped the vital clue revealing the identity of the murderer. But to me it looked like wreckage.

You know me, Bobby--I have an instinct for crime. Where evil flourishes, there I will be, on my self-appointed mission to stamp it out.

We killed an innocent girl

She was probably the best-looking almost-criminal in the history of girls who were about to go to prison.

Except . . . that would put her in Scarlet's bedroom. She'd instantly become a suspect. But saying nothing made her feel even worse—it was probably a huge crime to lie to a police officer, right?

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!

I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it.

In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it.

Criminals are just regular people who didn't have time to read all the laws.

I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.