Quotes About Crime

When crime was working as it was supposed to it was very dull. Very lucrative and very dull.

Homicide at its best stinks to high heaven because everyone walking this earth has a closet he'd prefer leaving closed and homicide rarely knocks before entering.

I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.

Some kid was shoving muggles. Marijuana, Dad. We call it—" "I know the names," Byrnes said.

why was Weeks virtually

As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devour every trace of the horrid evidence which might easily send him to the gallows, the man sank weakly into a chair and throwing his body forward upon his great, teak desk buried his face in his arms, breaking into dry, moaning sobs.

You see you left a little thumb print, and we are rather whales on thumb prints at Scotland Yard, Fisher.

Edgar Wallace

Hubo así dos historias: una, de índole criminal, hecha de cárceles, torturas, prostituciones, robos, muertes e incendios; otra, de carácter escénico, hecha de necedades y fábulas para consumo de patanes".

I have been taught by misery, he said. He had learned that no crime was beyond atonement, that even he, defiled by a mother's murder, could be made clean again.

A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.

Criminal means once tolerated are soon preferred.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

the most dangerous members of the criminal class—the criminals of great wealth.

Money interests fix the punishment for crime in this country [...] consequently there is no moral justice.

Hans Stefan Santesson's science fiction-mystery anthology Crime Prevention in the 30th Century

But a constant, low-level background of crime may help a society become more robust, more resilient.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

For there to be equivalence [between a premeditated crime and a crime of "pure violence"], the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.

Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.