Quotes About Crime

There, there, baby. We'll hide her body in the trunk later. (Tory)

Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)

Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What's there to like? (Solin) There's brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate the gods. Both groups are selfish bastards bent on destroying everything around them. They were given a perfect world and rather than enjoy it, they'd rather destroy it and each other. Excuse me if I don't look at them with love in my eyes but rather scorn in my heart. (Solin)

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.

THE SAINT, detective drama, based on the novels by Leslie Charteris.

Following the Leslie Charteris novels and the film portrayals by suave George Sanders, the radio Saint righted wrongs and aided victims of crime when the law was rendered powerless by restrictive procedure. The Saint simply broke the law, if the result justified it.

Executing a criminal often makes a martyr of him. Once he's dead and gone, people all too often forget the crimes he's committed and start to see a more sanitised version. A person like that starts to be seen as a victim.

Het zou zijn verdiende loon zijn als iemand hem eens doodslaat of -steekt. Misschien zal hij dan eindelijk eens ophouden met onschuldige voorbijgangers geld af te persen. - Halt

people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

Thanks to a skewed court system, the offender gets more sympathy than the victim of his crime. Police officers are put on trial for doing their duty against a criminal with a rap sheet that reaches to the floor. Who's the one who broke the law—the criminal or the policeman? Police officers are investigated while criminals write books that make them rich, famous, and features them on television talk shows.

Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

I'm a killer, not a thief.

in 2010, a University of Alabama scientist gunned down six of her colleagues. Here's what made Amy Bishop snap.

Y bien, ¿le gustaría el corredor de la muerte? Se lo merecía, decidió Jeffers. Estupidez en Primer Grado.

El homicidio en primer grado no prescribe. La venganza tampoco. —Lo miró—. Supongo que parezco obsesiva, pero lo llevo en la sangre.

Los crímenes «perfectos» raras veces se producían, pero los había. Normalmente no se debían al gran talento de los criminales sino a la ineptitud continuada de las autoridades, y en general se definían por la cuestión prosaica de si el autor salía impune o no.

Algunos casos tienen ese efecto. Un único acontecimiento y todo lo que sucede a continuación se vuelve distino. La mayoría de los delitos se olvidan. Todo el mundo sigue con su vida. El delico cae en el olvido. Pero algunos tocan la fibra sensible de la memoria. Son comp una llaga que no llega a curarse. Dejan una cicatriz.

Yes there are psychos out there but not as many as you think. Paedos make the news because what they do is disgusting. The millions, billions or whatever it is, of men who aren't paedos don't make the news.

Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.

D'ye know the Black Swan, East India Dock Road?' Troy shook his head. 'Bloke found dead in his room. Blood all over the place. Door locked from the inside. A real Sherlock Holmes-er.