Crime Quotes - Page 11
The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
Rex Stout (2011). “THREE MEN OUT”, p.156, Crimeline
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
"Character: Araspe". "Cinna" by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene i, 1641.
P. G. Wodehouse (2010). “Love Among the Chickens”, p.118, The Floating Press
Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.71, Bantam
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”
After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
"Fictional character: Alonzo Emmerich". "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950.
When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.
Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19”, p.1440, Penguin
Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
Josephus Daniels (1941). “Editor in Politics”
Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.174, Simon and Schuster