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Quotes About Crime

Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
All things considered, it had been his home, and the set of kindly, well-meaning, gentle-mannered people driven to death or exile for the sole crime of their existing, was the set to which he too belonged. His dark youthful broodings, the romantic—and let me add, somewhat artificial—passion for his mother's land, could not, I am sure, exclude real affection for the country where he had been born and bred.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
repeat however for the benefit of those who like books to provide them with "real people" and "real crime" and a "message" (that horror of horrors borrowed from the jargon of quack reformers) that Dead Souls will get them nowhere.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The fatal gesture passed like the tail of a falling star across the blackness of the contemplated crime.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Ngày nay, anh ph?i là má»™t nhà khoa h?c n?u mu?n gi?t ng??i.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
~ Vladmir Nabakov
But the chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not Punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
~ W E B Du Bois
The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
~ Lao Tzu
The more laws and order are made prominent,The more thieves and robbers there will be.
~ Lao Tzu
For the Arabs, and above all for the 1.2 million Arabs of Palestine, the partitioning of the land in which they had been a majority for seven centuries seemed a monstrous injustice thrust upon them by white Western imperialism in expiation of a crime they had not committed.
~ Larry Collins
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
~ Larry Elder
Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
~ Larry McMurtry
I don't know what this is!" "I do. This is me being framed for murder.
~ Laura Griffin
You agreed not to bug me." "That's not why I'm calling. This is something else." Silence. "Work related," he added. "I'm at a crime scene and I could really use a hand." "Let me guess. It's related to your all-important murder case? And I need to drop everything I'm doing and get there right now, this minute, and it can't wait till morning?" "You guessed right." •
~ Laura Griffin
Watanabe would later admit that in the beginning of his life in exile, he had pondered the question of whether or not he had committed any crime. In the end, he laid the blame not on himself but on "sinful, absurd, insane war." He saw himself as a victim.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Bury Me Deep, Megan Abbott Red Baker, Robert Ward Ghost Story, Peter Straub The Getaway, Jim Thompson The Godfather, Mario Puzo Suggested Viewing Misery (1990) The King of Comedy (1982) A Place in the Sun (1951) I Want to Live! (1958) The Wire, season 2
~ Laura Lippman
Ghost Story (1981) The Getaway (1972) The Godfather (1972)
~ Laura Lippman
Este crimen se impone como un espejo, y el monstruo que allí se refleja tiene la cara del país entero.
~ Laura Restrepo
He had been in this city for barely a fortnight and had concluded it was teeming with ruffians, murderers, and thieves. That he himself was a murderer and a thief was beside the point.
~ Laura Ruby
Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I need to help you kill someone and hide the body?
~ Lauren Dane
Eleven-year-old Danny Crane had moved to Hawaii just weeks before. Ma had brought Danny to Hawaii to get him out of trouble, away from the crime and the rats and the dirty, dangerous streets of New York City.
~ Lauren Tarshis