Quotes About Crime

author Agatha Christie was knowledgeable

We don't have many murders here in Cabot Cove.

Even if a man should speak disparagingly of God, he would hardly arouse the same feeling of indignation as against the crime, against the sacrilege which is the violation of the symbols of the country.

A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends. At some table a document is signed by some persons whom none of us knows, and then for years together that very crime on which formerly the world's condemnation and severest penalty fall, becomes our highest aim.

Ja pils?tu bombard?jam m?s, tad t? ir strat??iska nepieciešam?ba; ja to dara citi, tad ne??l?ga noziedz?ba.

A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends. At some table a document is signed by some persons whom none of us knows, and then for years together that very crime on which formerly the world's condemnation and severest penalty fall, becomes our highest aim.

Mrs. Caillaux bought a gun, practiced with it at the gunsmith's shop, then went to the editor's office and fired six times. In her testimony, offering an unintended metaphor for what was soon to befall Europe, she said, "These pistols are terrible things. They go off by themselves." She

He wrote, "It is so humiliating to me to shake hands with known and confessed murderers.

In the first six months of 1892 the city experienced nearly eight hundred violent deaths. Four a day.

I think Rome at its worst had nothing on Chicago during those lurid days.

He slashed her throat in a Van Gogh stroke.

The old world was passing. P. T. Barnum died; grave-robbers attempted to steal his corpse. William Tecumseh Sherman died, too. Atlanta cheered. Reports from abroad asserted, erroneously, that Jack the Ripper had returned. Closer at hand, a gory killing in New York suggested he might have migrated to America. In Chicago the former warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, Major R. W. McClaughry, began readying the city for the surge in crime that everyone expected the fair to produce

Murder was a fascination as always.

Angeles in the plain-clothes division

Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner

Never think that war, no matter how necessary nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

Mai pensare che la guerra, anche se giustificata, non sia un crimine.

What is mashing?" "It is one of the most heinous of crimes," his father answered. Nick's imagination pictured the great tenor doing something strange, bizarre, and heinous with a potato masher to a beautiful lady who looked like the pictures of Anna Held on the inside of cigar boxes. He resolved, with considerable horror, that when he was old enough he would try mashing at least once.

Now didn't I warn you, just a little while ago: arithmetic leads to philology, and philology leads to crime . . .

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

There is something that lessens the horror of a crime when one sees the criminal—who has been depicted as a monster—is just like any other man.

It's one thing to kill someone and not leave evidence or hide the body so it's never found, but to be able to murder someone and have everyone think it was an accident of nature? That's some kind of genius.

Forty." He throws the number out there for a moment. "That's how many people in an average football stadium have murdered someone in the last ten years.