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Quotes About Culprit

A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.
~ Adnan Sami
There can be no outrage, methinks, against our common nature - whatever be the delinquencies of the individual - no outrage more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame; as it was the essence of this punishment to do so.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
There can be no outrage, methinks, against our common nature--whatever be the delinquencies of the individual--no outrage more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame; as it was the essence of this punishment to do.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
There's a period in every case when I feel really confused. It's usually from right after I'm hired until I find out who did it.
~ Carol Lea Benjamin
A good cop, a smart cop, closes cases and locks up the bad guys.
~ J.D. Robb
I'm glad I have a concrete thing to blame this on, something everyone can point a finger at.
~ Ned Vizzini
But why, everybody asks, am I not blessed by fortune (or at least not as blessed as I would like to be)? Why have I not been favored like others who are less deserving? No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit.
~ Umberto Eco
No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit.
~ Umberto Eco
Poichè nessuno pensa che le sue sventure possano essere attribuite a una sua pochezza, ecco che dovrà individuare un colpevole.
~ Umberto Eco
through the air, reaching the culprit first; and nothing remained to Buck but to recover the bone. That was fair of Francois, he decided, and the half-breed began his rise in Buck's estimation. The other dog made no advances, nor received any; also, he did not attempt to steal from the newcomers. He was a gloomy
~ Jack London
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
We all have some proper noun to blame.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Find a scapegoat is wanting to destroy the ruins. (Trouver un bouc émissaire, - C'est vouloir les ruines détruire.)
~ Charles de Leusse
A boy with Somebody-else's pork pie! Stop him!
~ Charles Dickens
A little light show before they cut his cake once and for all, the bastards.
~ James Patterson
suspected in the
~ James Patterson
of the culprit. Architecture next engaged his attention, and in 1657 he designed a house at Viry for his brother and supervised its construction.
~ Charles Perrault
James' face reddened. "The vixen must be the very cause
~ Cheryl Bolen
There is nothing like a murderer, who's been kept on tender hooks for a while.
~ HÃ¥kan Nesser
Isn't that what usually happens? You know who did it, but you have to work your butts off to the knowledge into proof.
~ HÃ¥kan Nesser
I set the box of biscuits on the counter and went to the bathroom, and when I returned the biscuits were gone. Only a slobbery, mangled corner of the box remained.
~ Janet Evanovich
It is unlike the quintessential thriller where someone is up to something and the audience is speculating. 'Johnny Gaddaar' is the opposite of a thriller. In this case, the audience knows right from the outset what transpires and who the likely culprit is. It is a suspense caper.
~ Sriram Raghavan
It's a mystery to me how kidnappers ever get caught.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The advantage of having only one child is that you always know who did it.
~ Erma Bombeck